1989 Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster Pewter

1989 Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster Pewter

Price: 810.0
1989 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton signature model. Pewter with white trim.  Lace sensor pickups, active electronics. Case included.  Case is in fair condition but guitar is in good shape. Volume pot is a little dirty. Neck is fine. From Wikipedia:In 1985, Dan Smith approached Clapton to discuss a plan to create a signature guitar built to his own specifications and market it under his name. Clapton told them to make an exa ct copy of Blackie, his favorite stage guitar at the time. Clapton's personal preference for the neck shape was the soft "V" of the early Martins. Fender made up a neck and put it on an Elite Stratocaster body. In the meantime, another prototype has been made with a softer V neck that Clapton liked even more. Among the Elite's features was a 12dB MDX mid-boost circuit (developed and designed by Paul Gagon, James Demeter and John Carruthers) which makes the single-coils sounding like ahumbucker. Clapton liked the boost (which he called a "compressor") and told Fender to keep it, but wanted more "compression", prompting Fender to replace the "Elite" pickups with Gold Lace Sensorpickups and an updated MDX circuit that had been tweaked up to 25dB boost in the midrange at around 500 Hz.[edit]FeaturesClapton asked Fender for a V-shaped neck similar to his Martin acoustic guitar and what he called a "compressed" pickup sound, similar to that of a humbucker, explaining everything else about the famous "woman tone" he had developed during his stint with Cream in the late '60s, a playing technique almost synonymous with various Gibson models such as the ES-335,Les Paul Standard, Explorer, Byrdland, SG and Firebird, all sporting a pair of humbucking pickups. The first early prototypes made around 1986/87 featured a 21-fret neck, a 21dB mid-boost circuit, an active/passive toggle switch (which has been deleted on the final release) and Schaller locking strap buttons. The final product (released in 1988) is essentially a vintage 1957 reissue Stratocaster featuring a deeply contoured select alder body, a 1-piece soft "V"-shaped maple neck fitted with 22 vintage-style frets, flat 9,5" radius and BiFlex truss-rod system, a "blocked" original American Vintage synchronized tremolo, Gotoh/Kluson tuning machines, 1-ply white pickguard and three Fender Gold Lace Sensor pickups powered by an active MDX mid-boost circuit w ith 25dB of gain and TBX tone controls, which helped augment the tone of the sound delivered, opening up a wider tonal range Clapton desired.On Sep-02-12 at 15:54:45 PDT, seller added the following information:**I have several detailed pictures of the neck available - eBay won't let me add them to the listing, so email me directly and I will provide to you.  ... Click for more info
Listing Ends: 03:00pm UTC Sep. 08, 2012