• Serial Number: R40513
• Weight: 7.8 lbs

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.

• Serial Number: R40513
• Weight: 7.8 lbs

Product Number: 9235001128

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

General

• 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

Measurements

• FRET SIZE: Medium Jumbo
• SCALE LENGTH: 25.5" (64.77 cm)

Accessories

• INCLUDED ACCESSORIES: Deluxe Hardshell TKL Case, Strap, Certificate of Authenticity
• SADDLE HEIGHT WRENCH: .050" Hex (Allen) Wrench

Miscellaneous

• 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