Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Stratocaster

Mint condition!

Fender Custom Shop designers met Donal Gallagher, brother of late great guitarist Rory Gallagher, in Los Angeles in 1997 and received one of the most coveted guitars of all time - Gallagher’s heavily worn 1961 Stratocaster® guitar.

Fender initially built 40 replicas for European sale, but was subsequently besieged with requests for more. The Rory Gallagher Tribute Stratocaster guitar is an exact replica of that revered instrument, down to the extremely worn Three-color Sunburst alder body, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. It even has five Sperzel® tuners and one Gotoh® tuner, and the 12th-fret dot marker is white plastic rather than the original clay. It also features three custom-wound '60s single-coil pickups, aged chrome hardware, 21 medium jumbo frets and a synthetic bone nut. Our homage to a true and truly missed master.

Specifications

Neck Material: Maple

Neck Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Neck Shape: Early '60s "C"

Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)

Fingerboard Material: Rosewood

Position Inlays: Clay Dots with One Mis-matched White Plastic Dot at the 12th Fret

Number of Frets: 21

String Nut: Synthetic Bone

Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)

Nut Material: Synthetic Bone

Body: Select Alder Body

Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Body Shape: Stratocaster®

Body Material: Select Alder

Bridge: 6-Saddle American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo

Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green

Control Knobs: Parchment Plastic

Switch Tip: Aged White

Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome

Tuning Machines: 5 Sperzel® Die-Cast Machine Heads with 1 Mis-Matched Gotoh®

Strings: Fender® USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)

Tremolo Arm: Vintage-Style Tremolo Arm

Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Serialized

Bridge Pickup: Custom '60s Single-Coil Strat®

Middle Pickup: Custom '60s Single-Coil Strat®

Neck Pickup: Custom '60s Single-Coil Strat®

Pickup Configuration: SSS

Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Middle Pickup) Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Middle Pickup, Position 3. Neck Pickup