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Post by daytona600 on Jan 30, 2019 11:55:38 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Jan 30, 2019 13:10:53 GMT
The Black Strat is one of the most iconic guitars around; I even built my own replica from (much less expensive) parts. It's even got its own book, it's own web page, and, obviously, its own Wikipedia entry. Fair play to Dave Gilmour for this initiative. If it were me I'm pretty sure I could never sell such a personal instrument. As a slight aside, but charity and guitar-related, I'd like to commend Billy Bragg for starting the Jail Guitar Doors initiative 12 years ago, which is still going strong. It's even taken root in the USA. |
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Post by MartinT on Jan 30, 2019 13:23:34 GMT
It's a great initiative and that guitar is going to be a prize for someone.
Would that they could play it as well as Gilmour...
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 30, 2019 18:01:46 GMT
The Black Strat is one of the most iconic guitars around I have a '79 ... |
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Post by Slinger on Jan 30, 2019 18:54:35 GMT
Ah, Jules, you have "a" black strat, but we are speaking of The Black Strat, complete with Trump-like capitalisation.  |
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Post by Stratmangler on Jan 30, 2019 19:24:21 GMT
The Black Strat is one of the most iconic guitars around I have a '79 ... Gilmour's is a '69, which would make the black finish a Custom Color. As it happens it was a sunburst guitar (sunburst was the default finish) that was resprayed to order at the factory.
In '79 it was common practise to respray guitars which had finish faults black. Something like 80% of the instruments leaving Fullerton were black, and therefore resprays to cover poor finishing work.
I remember that there were a lot of black Fender instruments around at the time. Strats, Teles, Precision Basses, Jazz Basses, and a good few other models, and the majority of all of them finished black. They were dark days ....
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 30, 2019 19:56:29 GMT
Gilmour's is a '69, which would make the black finish a Custom Color. As it happens it was a sunburst guitar (sunburst was the default finish) that was resprayed to order at the factory.
In '79 it was common practise to respray guitars which had finish faults black. Something like 80% of the instruments leaving Fullerton were black, and therefore resprays to cover poor finishing work.
I remember that there were a lot of black Fender instruments around at the time. Strats, Teles, Precision Basses, Jazz Basses, and a good few other models, and the majority of all of them finished black. They were dark days ....
Ah that explains it! I've always wondered about that as I'm 99% sure mine is a factory black respray ... |
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 30, 2019 19:57:06 GMT
Ah, Jules, you have "a" black strat, but we are speaking of The Black Strat, complete with Trump-like capitalisation. Oooooooohhhhh!  |
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