This is 1 of 40 guitars from the Limited Run of Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Signature Strat!

The First Edition only for the European Market & Masterbuilt By John Cruz !!

BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD FRETBOARD!

Fender Custom Shop 設計師們於 1997 年在洛杉磯會見了已故偉大吉他手 Rory Gallagher 的兄弟 Donal Gallagher並成功從其手上借出由Rory 擁有的標誌性1961年的Strat 結它。

由於Rory Gallagher 手上的1961年 start 琴身油漆已經嚴重磨損，琴頸及琴頭都有嚴重使用痕跡，要將其複制有著一定的難度。但經過John Cruz 及其Custom Shop 專業團隊深入研究及多番努力後，終於在2000年的時候正式推出首批Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Signature Stratocaster 。但由於結它需要極其緻細做舊的工序所以首批只限量推出40支並只限於在歐洲市場發售。

雖然Fender 在2004年後正式推出常規Custom Shop 版本，但由於已不再是Master builder John Cruz 主理，結它在做舊方面緻細度及用料亦難以跟首批2000版本相比，所以更多頂級收藏家們更傾向於收藏2000首批的Custom Shop 限量版。

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.