Fender Stratocaster Custom Artist - RORY GALLAGHER TRIBUTE STRATOCASTER Electric Guitar Review
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The homage to a true and truly missed master.
Description
Fender Custom Shop designers met Donal Gallagher, brother of the late, great Rory Gallagher, in 1997
at Los Angeles International Airport and received a gig bag holding one of the most coveted guitars of
all time—Rory's worn-to-the-wood 1961 Stratocaster guitar. Fender initially built 40 "clones" for the
European market, and was subsequently besieged with requests for more.
The Rory Gallagher Tribute Stratocaster guitar is an exact replica of that revered instrument, right down
to the extremely worn 3-Color Sunburst alder body, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. Fender's even
included five Sperzel tuners and one Gotoh tuner, and has replaced the 12th-fret dot marker with white
plastic instead of the original clay. This Fender Strat also features three custom-wound '60s single-coil pickups, aged
chrome hardware, 21 jumbo frets and a bone nut. The homage to a true and truly missed master.
| Features + Technical Specs |
| Model Number |
015-0080-(800) |
| Series |
Custom Artist Series |
| Colors |
(800) 3-color Sunburst,
(Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish) |
| Body |
Select Alder |
| Neck |
Maple, Early ‘60s “C” Shape,
(Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish) |
| Fingerboard |
Rosewood, (9.5” Radius/241mm) |
| No. of Frets |
21 Medium Jumbo Frets |
| Pickups |
3 Custom ‘60s Single-Coil Strat Pickups |
| Controls |
Master Volume, Tone (Neck), Tone (Middle) |
| Pickup Switching |
5-Position Blade:
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
Position 3. Middle Pickup
Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
Position 5. Neck Pickup |
| Bridge |
American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo |
| Machine Heads |
5 Sperzel Die-Cast Machines with 1 Mis-Matched Gotoh Tuner |
| Hardware |
Nickel/Chrome |
| Pickguard |
3-Ply Mint Green |
| Scale Length |
25.5” (648 mm) |
| Width at Nut |
1.650” (42 mm) |
| Unique Features |
Aged White Plastic Parts,
Original Dot Spacing
One Mis-matched Sperzel Tuning Machine,
Clay Dots with One Mis-matched White Plastic Dot at the 12th Fret,
Slot-Head Mounting Screws in Selector Switch,
Heavily Worn and Distressed with Most of the Paint Missing,
Replicates the Wear Patterns of Rory’s Original Guitar |
| Strings |
Fender Super 250R, (.010 to .046) Nickel Plated Steel pn# 073-0250-006 |
| Accessories |
Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case, Strap, Cable |
| This musical instruments offer includes
Case |
Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case |
| Introduced |
1/2004 |
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