This guitar has been kept inside a glass case, unplayed.
It is located in Rockshop Auckland Central, New Zealand.
Please contact for freight to your destination - we will ship to rest of the world.

The World Famous "Blackie", a Fender Custom Shop detailed reproduction of the original Eric Clapton Stratocaster he played! Based on the most famous and most expensive guitar in the world, the Fender Custom Shop Eric Clapton Blackie Stratocaster is literally an exact copy of Clapton's classic guitar. In 1970, Clapton came across a store selling Fender Telecaster and Stratocasters for a mere $100, so he bought six, giving away three of them to George Harrison, Pete Townsend and Steve Winwood. After playing his remaining three, he decided to make himself the ultimate guitar by taking his favorite parts from each ('56 black alder body, '57 maple neck, etc.) and giving the resulting guitar the nickname "Blackie". Blackie soon became his #1 from 1973 to 1985 and unsurprisingly, began to show large amounts of wear and although its electronics were fit, it was retired before it completely fell apart. In 2004, Eric Clapton sold his original Blackie for a record breaking $959,500! Painstakingly hand crafted, each replica exactly mirrors the necks wear, cigarette burns on the headstock, aged hardware right down to the flaking black paint, which is inked in with pen just like the original. Clapton himself approved the first prototype, using it for 3 songs at London's Royal Albert Hall on May 17, 2006. On November 24, 2006, along with a replicated "Duck Brothers" flight case for each, 275 Tribute Series Blackie's were made and were listed at a suggested price of $24,000 USD, and not surprisingly, all the replicas of the worlds most famous guitar are sold out.