Blackie, a mid-1950s Fender Stratocaster guitar pieced together by Eric Clapton himself from numerous individual guitars, was Clapton’s main instrument throughout the ’70s and ’80s. Clapton’s albums 461 Ocean Boulevard, Slowhand, No Reason To Cry and Just One Night among others, were all recorded with Blackie. And in addition to memorable solo tours, Clapton and Blackie shared the stage with the likes of Pete Townshend, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters and The Band.

In 2004, Eric Clapton's legendary black strat Blackie was auctioned off and commanded an amazing US $959,000 at a Christie’s auction that benefited the Crossroads Centre, Antigua, a charity founded by Clapton.

In 2006, Fender Custom Shop, with the permission of Eric Clapton himself, took on the task on recreating a limited number (275 units) of Eric Clapton's beloved Blackie Stratocaster guitar.

This is the NOS version of The Original one!

Standard Colors: Black (Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish)

Pick Ups: 3 Staggered Pole Custom Wound Single Coil Pickups

Body: 3 Piece Alder

Neck: Maple, Soft "V" Shape (Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish)

Fingerboard: Maple, 9½" Radius

Number of Frets: 21

Scale Length: 25 ½ inches

Options:

- Bolt-On Neck

- Special Soft "V" Shape Neck

- 21 Vintage Style Frets

- American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo

- Five Vintage Chrome Tuning Keys

- Dulled Nickel Hardware

- Single-Ply White Pickguard With 8 Screw Holes

- White Plastic Knobs and Pickup Covers

- One Master Volume Knob

- Two Tone Knobs (Neck and Middle - Pickups)

- 5-way pick-up selector as per original (3-way included separately)

- Original Headstock Shape

Master Built Todd Krause the builder, who followed the tribute version, built it with the exact specifications of the original one, in NOS version.

The one and only one.