SOLD - 2009 Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Signature Stratocaster Relic Bargain

MikeS

2009 Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Signature Stratocaster Relic

Everything sealed, unopened and untouched.

In my opinion, by far the best guitar the custom shop has ever made, and maybe ever will make. the attention to detail, the features, and the sheer man hours spent building it.


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.

Rory Gallagher Signature Stratocaster® Relic®, Rosewood Fingerboard, 3-Colour Sunburst
Model #0150080800
Series Custom Artist
Country Of Origin US
Colour 3-Colour Sunburst
Body Select Alder
Body Finish Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Body Shape Stratocaster®
Neck Material Maple
Neck Finish Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Shape Early '60s "C"
Scale Length 25.5" (648 mm)
Fingerboard Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius 9.5" (241 mm)
Number of Frets 21
Frets Size Medium Jumbo
String Nut Synthetic Bone
Nut Width 1.650" (42 mm)
Position Inlays Clay Dots with One Mismatched White Plastic Dot at the 12th Fret
Bridge Pickup Custom '60s Single-Coil Strat®
Middle Pickup Custom '60s Single-Coil Strat®
Neck Pickup Custom '60s Single-Coil Strat®
Controls Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Middle Pickup)
Pickup Switching 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Middle Pickup, Position 3. Neck Pickup
Pickup Configuration SSS
Bridge 6-Saddle American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
Hardware Finish Nickel/Chrome
Tuning Machines 5 Sperzel® Die-Cast Machine Heads with 1 Mismatched Gotoh®
Pickguard 3-Ply Mint Green
Control Knobs Parchment Plastic
Strings Fender® USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
Unique Features - Aged White Plastic Parts, Original Dot Spacing, One Mismatched Sperzel®; Tuning Machine, Clay Dots with
One Mismatched 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
Included Accessories Deluxe Hardshell Case, Bridge cover, Certificate of Authenticity.

Beautiful Guitar, and naturally resonant. Only selling as I have an acoustic that needs paying for.

It's currently located in Portree, but can be over in Fife next week if that's easier for you, and I'm also happy to post insured via UPS if it helps.

Only £2895, which for one of these is just daft cheap, even more so with one as nice as this.

I'm also in the mood for either an R8, R9, CR8, CR9, chambered LP, Danny Gatton Tele, or a Cunetto strat or tele, so happy to trade for any of these.

Now SOLD, thanks to the buyer and of course to the forum.

benmurray85

That is one hell of a price for that, I was playing one of these a few weeks back in a local music shop and it was significantly more expensive. It may also be the pics but the relic'ing on yours looks MILES more realistic than the one in the shop GLWS

monoamine

Gosh these don't last long on here!