Fender Japan Announces Custom Shop Evangelion Stratocaster/Telecaster Series

Humberto Saabedra

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Fender Japan has announced the forthcoming availability of the Rei Series Custom Shop Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitar in Japan. The guitar series is meant to be a hand-built limited edition with input provided by Fender master luthier Yuriy Shiskov.

Hardware specs include custom Salvage Blue urethane paintjob. gold-plating, Lance of Longinus pearl inlay on the neck and rosewood fretboard, Schaller tuning hardware, Dunlop Narrow Jumbo Frets, Samarium Cobalt pickups, American Vintage Strat string-through-body hardtail bridge design and a black hardshell case with black crushed velvet interior.

The guitars will be launched in December with pricing information unavailable at this time.

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Journalist since 2006, initially covering the retail wireless sector before pivoting to anime and manga trade reporting in 2008. Founder and publisher of AnimeNews.biz (2008–2017), followed by a 13-year tenure at Crunchyroll News (2011–2024) and launching K-Comics Beat with Comics Beat in 2024. Now stripping away consumer noise to build independent, data-backed intelligence desks focused on cross-border licensing telemetry, production committee balance sheets, and industrial supply-chain forensics.

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