Official 2010 Factory Specification 3, 68 KG Model Name: Fender Custom Shop Yngwie Malmsteen Signature Stratocaster Series: Custom Artist Series Body Material: 2-Piece Select Alder (hand-picked for weight and acoustic resonance) Body Finish: Thin Nitrocellulose Lacquer with WLS undercoat (allows the wood to breathe and age naturally) Neck & Fingerboard (The Shred Engine) Neck Wood: Flat Sawn Maple Neck Profile: "Custom C" Profile (shaped to Yngwie's precise thickness preferences) Fingerboard: Custom Deep-Scalloped Maple (hand-carved at the workshop for frictionless string bends) Frets: 21 Dunlop 6000 Super Jumbo Frets (the tallest and widest available) Nut: Pure Brass Nut (1.650" / 42 mm) for maximum open-note metallic attack and endless sustain Truss Rod Adjustment: Vintage-Style Heel Adjust (located hidden at the base of the neck, unlike the exposed bullet system on standard production versions) Electronics & Hardware Pickups: 3 Seymour Duncan® YJM Fury™ STK-S10 Stacked Noiseless pickups (calibrated individually for Bridge, Middle, and Neck positions to cut through high gain without background hum) Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1 (Neck), Tone 2 (Bridge/Middle No-Load Tone Control) Pickup Switching: 5-Position Blade Bridge: American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo with steel block Tuning Machines: Schaller® "F" Vintage-Style Keys Strap Buttons: Dunlop® Flush-Mount Safety Straplocks (drilled flat directly into the body wood to prevent accidental stage drops)