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In 1997, the Fender Custom Shop met with Donald Gallagher (Rory’s brother) at LAX airport and received a gig bag holding one of the most coveted and instantly recognizable guitars of all time – Rory’s worn-to-the-wood, 1961 Stratocaster guitar. Initially, Fender built 40 “clones” for the European market. Since then, they’ve been besieged with requests for them to build more.
The Rory Gallagher Stratocaster guitar is an exact representation of the Irish blues singer/songwriter’s personal instrument and features three custom wound ‘60s single-coil pickups, aged chrome hardware, 21 jumbo frets and a bone nut. Fender takes extra detail during the Relic® process to replicate Gallagher’s extremely worn 3-Color Sunburst alder body, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. They’ve even gone as far as to include five Sperzel tuners and one Gotoh tuner; as well as, replacing the 12th dot marker with white plastic instead of the original clay. The wait is over!
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BODY
Select Alder
NECK
Maple, Early ‘60s “C” Shape,
(Nitro-Cellulose Lacquer Finish)
MACHINE HEADS
5 Sperzel Die-Cast Machines with 1 Mis-Matched Gotoh Tuner
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)
BRIDGE
American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
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
HARDWARE
Nickel/Chrome
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
Bananas at Large is an Authorized Fender® Dealer. Fender® products are only sold to USA customers. Fender® and Fender Brand Names such as Stratocaster® and Telecaster® are trademarks of Fender® Musical Instruments Corporation.
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