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The Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Stratocaster Electric Guitar recreates every detail of this legendary instrument.
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 has even included five Sperzel tuners and one Gotoh tuner, and they’ve replaced the 12th-fret dot marker with white plastic instead of the original clay. It also features three custom-wound ’60s single-coil pickups, aged chrome hardware, 21 jumbo frets and a bone nut. Fender's homage to a true and truly missed master.
Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher 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
Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Stratocaster Electric Guitar
- Body: Select Alder
- Neck: Maple, Early ‘60s C Shape, (Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood, 9.5 inch 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
- 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 inches (648 mm)
- Width at Nut:1.650 inches (42 mm)
- Strings: Fender Super 250R, (.010 to .046) Nickel Plated Steel
- Accessories: Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case, Strap, Cable
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| A true legend! |
| Quality |
| Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? |
| First rate all around. Most Strats will last 3 lifetimes. Anyone who has ever owned a Fender knows that already. |
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| How has it stood up over time? |
| This guitar is indestructible--its already been destroyed! Hee, hee |
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| Your general opinion of this product. |
| I absolutely love this guitar--everything about it except the price. Seems guitars in general are getting outrageously expensive. I've noted the same with Gibson to be fair. In defense, I must say (I could be wrong)there are most likely a lot of man hours spent on each of these instruments--so the price is what it is I suppose. |
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| Playability and Feel |
| How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? |
| Ah, this is the magic of this guitar. The feel of that neck is some else altogether! I've played a lot of guitars over the 35 yrs I've been playing but have never owned anything like this before. To say it's like an old friend from day one is an understatement. It neck is so comfortable it gives you the feeling there's nothing you can't play! |
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| Tone |
| Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? |
| Again, the tone is amazing! You're not looking at this instrument if you're not a fan of Rory's music (are you?). Well the tone is pure Rory Gallagher! And that to me (along with Hendrix) is what The Fender Strat Tone is all about. To me those two gentlemen were the unfailing Strat Gods and their tone was the Fender Strat. It was rare for them to be seen with any other instrument! So it's not very surprising that you can get some excellent "Jimi" tones out of this beauty! |
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| Finish |
| How did the stain or paint job look? |
| Well, it's kind of funny commenting on this one for a Rory. I guess the joke would be: "Finish? We don't need no stinking finish!" |
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| How was the action out of the box? |
| Perfect out of the case! |
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