2015 Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Stratocaster

One of Fender Custom Shop’s most faithful artist tribute models, recreating Rory Gallagher’s famously road-worn 1961 Strat almost detail-for-detail.

Excellent to MINT condition with all case can

Specification

• Body: Select alder

• Finish: Nitrocellulose lacquer, heavy relic 3-Color Sunburst

• Neck: Maple:, Early ’60s “C”

• Fingerboard: Slab Rosewood, Radius 9.5", Nut Width 1.650"

• Scale Length: 25.5"

• Frets: 21 medium jumbo

• Pickups: 3 × Custom ’60s single-coils (John Cruz)

• Switching: Vintage-style 3-way blade (many owners use 5-way)

• Bridge: American Vintage synchronized tremolo

• Tuners: 5 Sperzel tuners + 1 mismatched Gotoh tuner

• Hardware: Aged nickel/chrome

• Pickguard: 3-ply mint green

• Weight: 7 lbs 6 oz

• Case: Brown Fender Custom Shop hardshell, gold lining

• Case Candy: COA, Custom Shop Cloth, Tool Box, Strap, Patch Cable, Warranty, Bridge Cover, Trem Bar, Hang Tag

Distinctive Features

• Fender duplicated the extreme wear patterns of Rory’s original 1961 Strat, including:

  • missing finish,

  • exposed wood,

  • cigarette burns,

  • mismatched tuner,

  • and altered 12th-fret dot marker.