Fender Stratocaster Custom Artist – RORY GALLAGHER TRIBUTE STRATOCASTER Electric Guitar Review :: Fender Guitars Reviews
The homage to a true and truly missed master.
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 |
| These musical instruments offer includes Case | Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case |
| Introduced | 1/2004 |
