Strato 1983
Rock, and loud: long solos and a guitar built to keep up. Maple neck and fretboard, a 16″ radius, jumbo frets — born to move fast, and it never pretended otherwise.
- Gesso
- Ginestra
- Felce
- Ciclamino
- Rosso corsa
- Abisso
6 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
Maple on both sides
Neck and fretboard in the same wood, like the super strats of the time. Maple is bright and quick: it gives back the attack of the note instead of softening it, and that is half the reason that era sounded the way it did.
16-inch radius, jumbo frets
Sixteen inches of radius and tall frets: strings bend without the note choking out, and the finger presses the string onto the fret instead of onto the wood. It is the pair of measurements that makes fast playing comfortable, and the pair that era imposed on everyone.
Dual-action rod and two carbon bars
The truss rod corrects in both directions, and the two carbon fibre bars hold the neck still. A thin maple neck is the one that feels the change of seasons most: these are the two things that make it stable without making it thicker.
The whole of it
Strato 1983, headstock to bridge.
Specifications
How I designed it.
They do not change: they are what makes this a Strato 1983.
Measurements
- Scale length
- 648 mm · 25,5″
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Neck width, twenty-two frets
- 43 mm at the nut · 56.5 mm at the last fret (1,69″ · 2,22″)
- Neck width, twenty-four frets
- 43 mm at the nut · 57.2 mm at the last fret (1,69″ · 2,25″)
Body
- Body
- Alder
- Body finish
- Gloss polyurethane
Neck
- Neck
- Maple
- Fretboard
- Maple
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rods
- Neck finish
- Matte polyurethane
- Fretboard finish
- Tru-Oil
Frets and markers
- Frets
- Jumbo
- Fret markers
- Black
- Side markers
- Black
Bridge and tuners
- Headstock
- 6 in line, reverse
- Bridge
- Gotoh
- Tuners
- Gotoh
- Nut
- Gotoh
Pickups and controls
- Pickups
- De Gattis
- Pots
- 500 kΩ
- Selector
- Five-way
- Electronics
- De Gattis Custom Circuitry
Included
- Strings
- Ernie Ball 09-042
- Case
- ABS hard caseIncluded
- Certificate of authenticity
- Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
- Left-handed
- On request
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
Neck
Neck + middle
Middle
Middle + bridge
Bridge
Two ways
Order it as it is, or make it yours.
In the Custom Shop this model is already selected: from there you change woods, neck, hardware, electronics — and at the end a luthier answers you, not a form.
Customise this model