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.

Features

• Select alder body
• 3-Color Sunburst Relic® finish
• Three Custom '60s single-coil Strat® pickups
• Early-'60s "C"-shaped maple neck; 9.5"-radius rosewood fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets
• Three-position blade pickup switch
• Replicates wear pattern of Rory's original guitar; one mismatched Sperzel® tuning machine; one mismatched white dot inlay at 12th fret
• Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap and Certificate of Authenticity

Series Custom Artist Orientation Right-Hand Color 3-Color Sunburst Country Of Origin US Platform Custom Shop Electrics     Neck 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 Body Select Alder Body Finish Nitrocellulose Lacquer Body Shape Stratocaster® Body Material Select Alder     Hardware 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), PN 0730250406 Tremolo Arm Vintage-Style Tremolo Arm Neck Plate 4-Bolt Serialized     Electronics 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