GUITARGUITAR | 3 years ago
Fender Rhinestone Stratocaster Replica 1975 Bronze Jon Douglas 👉 https://gtrgtr.uk/FenderRhinestoneStrat
Well, it's not every day you see something like this!
Welcome to our Vintage Vault series where we take a look at some of the rarest and most special vintage guitars that come through our door. Today we're looking at this Fender Rhinestone Stratocaster from 1975.
In 1975, sculptor Jon Douglas felt that most guitars looked "boring", and Ivor Arbiter, the UK distributor of Fender invited him to do better. Douglas came up with a Stratocaster body made from cold-cast bronze, employing a metallic layer over a fiberglass shell. A prototype was made, followed by 6 more models. Arbiter suggested setting rhinestones into the body's surface, and the "Rhinestone Strat" was born. The small batch of Strats were put on sale at the Fender Soundhouse store in London in 1975, but unfortunately a fire destroyed the premises soon afterward. Two were sold prior to the fire, but the other four perished in the flames. In the early 1990's Douglas made molds for a future run of a planned 50.
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Chapters 🎬
0:00 - intro/soundbite
1:27 - the history
4:55 - clean soundbite
6:36 - history of the replica
11:14 - crunch tones soundbite
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