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Luxe Vintage '60s ST Surf Green Electric Guitar Retro SSS Single-Coil 60s Strat Style Professional Stage Performance
1. Product Overview
This Luxe Vintage '60s ST Surf Green Electric Guitar is a carefully crafted tribute to the golden age of 1960s surf rock, perfectly blending the iconic classic design of Stratocaster with modern playing convenience and retro aesthetic style. Inspired by the electric guitar that defined surf rock, rock and pop, and countless classic music styles, it accurately captures the soul of 1960s California trendy coolness, presenting the bright and crisp tone and smooth playing feel that made Strat an eternal classic instrument.
The guitar features the iconic Surf Green finish — a symbolic color of 1960s surf culture, paired with the classic SSS single-coil pickup configuration, retro-style hardware, and a comfortable maple neck. Whether you are pursuing the classic surf rock crisp tone of The Beach Boys, the blues texture of the 1960s British Invasion, or the warm clean tone of folk and pop music, this guitar can bring pure retro tone and modern reliable playing experience. It is the ultimate choice for musicians pursuing the classic 1960s Strat playing experience, collectors of retro equipment, and all guitar players who desire to own a timeless, stage-ready all-around electric guitar.
2. Appearance & Craftsmanship
1. Classic 60s ST Body & Iconic Surf Green Finish
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Body Shape: Authentic 60s-style Strat double-cutaway body, crafted with the iconic contour that revolutionized electric guitar design. The smooth contour of the ergonomic design fits perfectly against the body, greatly reducing fatigue during long playing sessions; the deep cutaway design allows players to access the highest frets unobstructed, perfectly adapting to the fast and smooth solo skills in surf rock and 1960s rock and pop. The classic Strat double-cutaway body is the cornerstone of the tone of surf rock and 1960s rock, and its solid structure further enhances resonance and sustain, laying a solid foundation for the iconic bright and crisp tone of this guitar.
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Finish Craftsmanship: Stunning Surf Green high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish, a legendary symbolic color of 1960s surf culture. The nitrocellulose lacquer finish has a unique natural aging characteristic, forming a one-of-a-kind retro patina over time, perfectly replicating the classic texture of the original 60s Strat; the high-gloss finish makes the vivid green tone more visually striking, creating a stunning stage visual effect. The finish is applied in multiple thin coats, allowing the wood to resonate freely and present a pure retro tone.
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Body Material: Selected high-quality Alder body, a classic wood choice for 60s Strat. Alder has balanced tonal characteristics, capable of outputting bright and clear high frequencies, warm and full mid frequencies, and tight and steady low frequencies, making it the perfect base for creating the iconic Strat tone. All body woods are strictly selected and air-dried to ensure stable structure and resistance to deformation, allowing the guitar to maintain good condition for a long time.
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Surface Texture: The high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish is smooth and delicate to the touch, and is equipped with a wear-resistant and scratch-resistant coating. While protecting the retro aesthetics of the guitar, it effectively resists scratches and damage during daily use and playing. The finish clearly highlights the natural grain of the alder, adding delicate texture layers and a unique retro charm to the Surf Green finish.
2. Headstock & Hardware
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Headstock Design: Classic 60s-style Strat headstock, paired with a iconic large-size logo and retro-style sticker, paying the highest tribute to the original 60s Strat. The headstock is seamlessly connected with the maple neck of the same material, creating a cohesive retro visual style.
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Tuning Machines: Retro-style chrome-plated high-precision sealed tuning machines, specially designed to achieve smooth and precise tuning and long-term stable intonation. The retro appearance perfectly fits the 1960s aesthetic style, while the sealed structure ensures that the tuning machines remain stable and do not go out of tune even during heavy tremolo use and intense playing.
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Hardware Plating: All hardware, including the body control area, bridge, adjustment knobs, and output panel, adopts bright chrome plating, forming a distinct and classic visual contrast with the Surf Green body and white pickguard, creating a clean and neat retro style. The chrome-plated hardware has excellent corrosion resistance and wear resistance, and can maintain its original luster after long-term use, demonstrating high-quality craftsmanship.
3. Detail Design
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Pickguard: 1-ply white retro-style pickguard, adopting the classic 8-screw installation method consistent with the original 60s Strat. The white pickguard not only brightens the overall visual effect, but also effectively protects the body finish from scratches by the pick, while further enhancing the retro aesthetic atmosphere.
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Neck Plate: Retro-style chrome-plated neck plate, printed with classic brand-style logos, adding pure retro details to the back of the guitar and restoring the classic texture of the original 60s Strat.
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Tremolo Back Cover: White retro-style tremolo back cover, adopting the classic 6-screw design, perfectly echoing the white pickguard, and completing the overall shaping of the 1960s retro style in details.
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Control Knobs: White retro-style "soft-touch" control knobs, using classic Stratocaster font labels, marked with Volume, Tone 1, and Tone 2 respectively, realizing intuitive and convenient tone adjustment operations and replicating the classic control experience.
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Neck Joint: 60s-style heel design, the transition between the neck and the body is smooth and natural, ensuring a comfortable playing feel for high-fret playing and restoring the pure retro Strat playing experience.
3. Hardware Configuration
1. Retro-Style Synchronized Tremolo System
Equipped with a classic 60s-style synchronized tremolo system (the iconic "tremolo tailpiece" that made Strat world-famous), adopting a 2-point or 6-screw retro structure, bringing smooth and natural tremolo action. This system can achieve delicate and gentle vibrato effects, exaggerated dive bombs, and the iconic whammy bar techniques of surf rock, perfectly restoring the classic tone and playing style of 1960s surf music. The system has been precisely adjusted to have excellent intonation stability, and can quickly return to precise intonation even with frequent and intense use of the tremolo arm, without the need for repeated tuning. A retro-style tremolo arm with a retro grip design is included with the guitar, fully restoring the 1960s playing experience.
2. SSS Single-Coil Pickup System
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Pickup Configuration: Three retro-style 60s single-coil pickups (SSS), crafted with custom winding technology, accurately replicating the bright, crisp, and transparent iconic tone of the original 60s Strat pickups. The neck pickup outputs warm and soft clean tones, making it an ideal choice for blues and jazz style playing; the middle pickup presents a bright and crisp tone, perfectly suitable for rhythm guitar and surf rock playing; the bridge pickup has iconic crisp penetration, which is the core tone choice for surf rock, rock and pop, and country music.
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Pickup Selector: 5-way pickup selector switch (classic Strat 5-way switch), which can switch all 5 classic Strat tones with one click: neck, neck+middle, middle, middle+bridge, bridge. This all-around switching system covers all style tone needs from warm clean jazz to sharp and crisp surf rock, with extremely strong adaptability.
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Control Module: 1 Volume knob + 2 Tone knobs (classic Strat control layout), which can independently adjust the overall volume, as well as the tone of the neck/middle pickups and the bridge pickup. Through the combination adjustment of the knobs, players can accurately create various ideal tones from bright and crisp surf rock to warm and mellow blues, fully releasing musical creativity.
3. Other Hardware
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Output Jack: Retro-style chrome-plated output jack plate, equipped with a stable and reliable output interface, ensuring a firm connection with the amplifier, minimizing signal loss, and ensuring the purity of the tone during stage performances and recording.
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Strap Buttons: Heavy-duty chrome-plated strap buttons, with strong load-bearing capacity and stable connection, can be adapted to various stage performance straps, ensuring the safety of the guitar for players during intense stage movements and long-term performances, and perfectly suitable for dynamic stage performances such as grunge rock.
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Nut: Plastic nut, with excellent string lubricity, intonation stability and tone conductivity, ensuring smooth playing and consistent intonation across the entire fretboard, and is one of the core configurations of high-performance electric guitars.
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Strings: Factory-installed retro-style electric guitar strings, the classic string gauge for 60s Strat, providing perfect playing balance and tone performance for surf rock, rock and pop, blues and other styles, and can restore the classic style immediately after getting started.
4. Neck & Fretboard
1. Neck Material & Feel
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Neck Material:High-quality Maple neck, a classic choice for 60s Strat. Maple can output bright and clear high frequencies, excellent sustain, and lively dynamic response, perfectly complementing the warm mid and low frequencies of the Alder body, together creating the iconic Strat tone. The neck is made of a single piece of high-quality maple, with stable structure and strong deformation resistance, and can maintain good condition after long-term use.
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Neck Profile: 60s-style "C" shape neck profile, the iconic retro Strat neck shape, suitable for all playing styles — from steady rhythm guitar to fast and smooth lead solos can be easily handled. The medium C-shape perfectly fits the hand-holding posture, greatly reducing finger fatigue during long playing sessions, and is an ideal choice for fast playing of surf rock and 1960s rock.
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Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, creating a smooth and fluent playing feel, replicating the warm texture of the original 60s Strat after long-term use. The satin finish effectively reduces the friction coefficient, allowing the player's hand to slide freely on the neck, easily completing fast solos, barre chords and other techniques.
2. Fretboard Configuration
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Fretboard Material: Maple fretboard (classic 60s Strat fretboard choice), with a smooth and bright surface, further enhancing the bright and crisp core tone of the guitar. The maple fretboard has excellent durability and easy maintenance, and will naturally form a warm patina over time, with increasingly outstanding texture.
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Frets: 22 medium-jumbo nickel-silver frets, adopting the classic number of frets and retro fret size of 60s Strat, suitable for techniques such as string bending, vibrato and fast playing. The frets have been precisely leveled, crowned and polished, with a smooth touch and fluent playing, ensuring perfect intonation and a comfortable string-pressing experience.
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Fret Markers: Retro-style white dot inlays, inlaid at the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th (double dot), 15th, 17th, 19th, and 21st frets respectively, providing intuitive visual fret reference for fast playing and adapting to various playing scenarios. The dot inlays perfectly fit the retro 60s Strat aesthetics and are clearly visible under any lighting conditions.
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Fretboard Radius: Standard size fretboard radius (classic retro 60s Strat radius), creating a comfortable playing surface, taking into account the needs of both rhythm and lead playing. The moderate radius makes techniques such as string bending and vibrato easier and more convenient, perfectly adapting to various style playing.
5. Tone Performance
This Luxe Vintage '60s ST Surf Green Electric Guitar is specially designed to present the iconic eternal tone of 1960s Strat, and is fully suitable for various music styles such as surf rock, blues, rock and pop, country and pop:
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Clean Tone: The tone is bright, crisp and transparent, with the iconic "crispness" of Strat, which is the core tone characteristic of surf rock. The notes output by the single-coil pickups are clear and distinct, with a strong sense of granularity, perfectly suitable for clean rhythm guitar, surf rock riffs and melodic solos. The warm mid frequencies and tight low frequencies ensure that the tone is soft and not harsh, while the bright high frequencies have extremely strong penetration and can easily cut through complex mixes.
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Light Overdrive: The tone is smooth, mellow and full of rich blues texture, which is the classic Strat overdrive tone of the 1960s British Invasion and blues rock. The single-coil pickups distort naturally and pleasantly under light overdrive, presenting a warm and layered distortion effect, which is an ideal tone choice for blues solos and rock rhythm guitar.
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Heavy Distortion: The tone is sharp, aggressive and clear, maintaining good granularity and penetration even under heavy distortion. The iconic "impact" of Strat output by the bridge pickup is perfectly suitable for rock and pop, punk and hard rock styles; the 5-way pickup selector allows players to accurately adjust the degree of distortion and create personalized tones.
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Tremolo Tone: It has smooth and full vibrato effects and exaggerated dive bomb effects, perfectly adapting to the iconic whammy bar techniques of surf rock. The retro synchronized tremolo system is sensitive in response, which can add rich expressiveness and emotional depth to the playing, replicating the playing style of classic 1960s surf guitarists.
6. Application Scenarios
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Professional Stage Performances: The iconic Surf Green finish, reliable hardware configuration and all-around tone performance make this guitar an ideal choice for live performances. It can perfectly adapt to stage performances of various styles such as surf rock, rock and pop, blues and country. The comfortable neck design ensures that players can play on stage for a long time without pressure.
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Recording & Studio Use: The pure retro tone and all-around pickup configuration make this guitar a "universal instrument" in the recording studio. It can accurately capture the 60s Strat tone used in countless classic recordings. The clean and clear tone is suitable for layered recording, overdub recording and production needs of various music styles.
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Practice & Home Use: The comfortable neck feel, smooth playing experience and affordable price make this guitar the perfect choice for beginners and intermediate players to experience the classic Strat tone. It is easy to get started and has excellent tone, making it an ideal tool for practicing surf rock, rock and pop, blues and other styles.
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Collection & Display: The stunning Surf Green finish, retro design style and pure 60s Strat shape make this guitar a bright item in any guitar collection. It is not only a playing instrument, but also a tribute to the golden age of 1960s surf rock, and an excellent display piece and collection treasure for guitar enthusiasts.
7. Product Specifications (Reference)
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Configuration Details
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Body Shape
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Classic 60s Strat Double-Cutaway Body
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Body Material
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High-Quality Alder
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Neck Material
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One-Piece High-Quality Maple
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Fretboard Material
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Maple
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Neck Profile
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60s-Style Medium "C" Shape
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Fretboard Radius
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Standard Size
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Number of Frets
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22 Medium-Jumbo Nickel-Silver Frets
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Fret Markers
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Retro White Dot Inlays
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Pickup Configuration
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3× Retro-Style 60s Single-Coil Pickups (SSS)
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Pickup Selector
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5-Way Pickup Selector Switch
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Control Module
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1× Volume, 2× Tone
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Bridge/Tremolo
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Retro-Style Synchronized Tremolo System (Chrome-Plated)
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Tuning Machines
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High-Precision Sealed Tuning Machines (Chrome-Plated)
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Finish
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Surf Green High-Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
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Pickguard
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1-Ply White Retro-Style Pickguard
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Hardware
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Full Set of Bright Chrome-Plated Hardware
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Nut
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Plastic Nut
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Strings
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Factory-Installed Retro-Style Electric Guitar Strings
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Case
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Not Provided
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8. Packaging & Accessories
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Standard Packaging: Adopt thick cardboard box, paired with high-density foam cushioning and professional protective packaging, comprehensively protecting the guitar's safety during transportation and ensuring that the instrument is intact when received.
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Standard Accessories: A retro-style tremolo arm and an Allen wrench for tremolo system adjustment are included with the guitar.
9. Summary
The Luxe Vintage '60s ST Surf Green Electric Guitar is a perfect tribute to the iconic 1960s Strat. With its pure retro tone, timeless classic appearance design and modern reliable playing performance, it perfectly captures the soul of 1960s surf rock and the golden age of electric guitars. The stunning Surf Green finish, classic SSS single-coil pickups, retro-style hardware and comfortable maple neck together create an all-around instrument that combines aesthetics and performance.
Whether you are a surf rock enthusiast, a collector of retro equipment, a beginner or intermediate player eager to experience the classic Strat tone, or a professional musician in need of a reliable stage instrument, this guitar can meet all your expectations. It is an eternal classic that combines retro design and modern craftsmanship, allowing you to easily play and shape the classic tones of countless music styles such as rock, surf rock and blues, and realize the infinite possibilities of music creation.