Strato Modern
Twenty-two frets, twenty-four on request. Stainless steel frets and a carved cutaway: the classic shape, corrected exactly where the hand actually reaches.
- Brace
- Tabacco
- Boreale
- Orchidea
- Zafferano
- Ciclamino
- Abisso
- Amaranto
- Assenzio
- Grafite
- Vulcano
- Iride
- Cielo
- Felce
- Cobalto
- Bruma
- Glicine
- Miele
- Carminio
19 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
Pickups wound by hand in Italy
They are De Gattis, built one at a time. Not a part ordered from a catalogue and fitted: the piece that decides the sound is the piece we make ourselves.
Stainless steel frets, 2.80 mm
They do not wear and they do not dent under the strings. The setup stays where it was on day one for years, and anyone who bends a lot notices straight away.
16-inch radius
Flatter than a vintage fretboard: strings bend without the note choking out. It is the measurement that makes playing high up the neck comfortable.
The whole of it
Strato Modern, headstock to bridge.
Photographs of Strato Modern
The curly maple
The figure moves with your eye.
Twelve seconds from the headstock down the neck, no editing. Curly maple is not a pattern printed under the finish: it is wood reflecting light differently depending on the angle, and in a still photograph it always looks like less than it is.
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Strato Modern.
- Scale length
- 648 mm25.5 inches
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Frets
- 2.80 mm stainless steel jumbo
- Nut
- Tusq
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Neck
- Balkan curly maple
- Top
- Quilted maple
- Pots
- 250 kΩ with push-push
- Body finish
- Gloss polyurethane
- Neck width, twenty-two frets
- 43 mm at the nut · 56.5 mm at the last fret1.69 · 2.22 inches
- Neck width, twenty-four frets
- 43 mm at the nut · 57.2 mm at the last fret1.69 · 2.25 inches
- Case
- ABS hard caseIncluded
- Certificate of authenticity
- Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
You choose
Every line here is a conversation, not a drop-down.
- Number of frets
- 22 · 24Twenty-two as standard, twenty-four on request
- Body wood
- Canadian alder · Swamp ash
- Fretboard
- Wenge · Curly maple · Ebony · Pau ferro
- Pickup configuration
- SSS · HSS · HHWith twenty-four frets the neck pickup moves, and the layouts become HH and HSH
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on · Set neckSet neck, for more sustain and easier reach at the top frets
- Finish type
- Translucent · Pastel colourThe translucent lets the maple show, the pastel covers it: they are two instruments to look at, not two degrees of the same one
- Headstock
- 6 in line · 6 in line, reverse · 4 + 2 · 4 + 2, reverse · 3 + 3 · Slotted
- Bridge
- Gotoh 510T · Vintage Schaller · Vegatrem · Schaller Lockmeister · Gotoh Floyd Rose
- Tuners
- Gotoh · Schaller — black, chrome or gold
- Fret markers
- Mother of pearl · Abalone · Wood
- Neck finish
- Gloss · Satin
- Fretboard finish
- Tru-oil · Gloss · Satin
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
Neck
Neck + middle
Middle
Middle + bridge
Bridge
With the push-pull up
The bridge humbucker stays on one coil even in the fifth position: it moves close to a single-coil and sits with the other two, without touching the selector.
Neck
Neck + middle
Middle
Middle + bridge
Bridge
And now
Carry on building it.
The green lines above are yours to decide. In the Custom Shop you pick them one by one, and at the end it is the luthier who writes back, not a form.