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STRATOCASTER: SPECS AND SERIES

Limited Edition George Harrison Rocky Strat (2020-Today)

Custom Shop - Limited Edition Series

MODEL NUMBER
9216070066
 
BODY
Body Material: 2-Piece Select Alder
Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Body Shape: Stratocaster
 
NECK
Neck Material: 5A Flame Maple
Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Shape: Asymmetrical 1960 Oval "C"
Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius: 7.25” (184.1 mm)
Number of Frets: 21
Fret Size: Vintage
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.650” (42 mm)
Position Inlays: Micarta White Dot
Truss Rod: Vintage Style
Skunk Stripe: None
 
HEADSTOCK
Type: Small, Custom Rocky Graphics
Logo: None
Other Decals, front: "Rocky"
Other Decals, back: "Grimwoods; The music people; Maidstone and Whitstable" sticker
 
ELECTRONICS
Bridge Pickup: Abigail Ybarra Hand-Wound '60's Strat, Staggered Beveled Poles
Middle Pickup: Abigail Ybarra Hand-Wound '60's Strat, Staggered Beveled Poles
Neck Pickup: Abigail Ybarra Hand-Wound '60's Strat, Staggered Beveled Poles
Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck), Tone 2. (Mid); Inv
Switching: 5-Position Blade
Configuration: SSS
 
HARDWARE
Bridge: 6-Saddle Vintage-Style Synchronized Tremolo
Saddles: Vintage Style, "FENDER"/"PAT.PEND."
Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style with Logo
String Tree: Wing
Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green with Custom Rocky Graphics, 11 Holes (Config. Vintage)
Control Knobs: White with Custom Rocky Graphics; Swapped Volume and Tone Plastic Knobs
Switch Tip: White
Pickup covers: White, Painted Green (neck), Yellow (Mid), Fuchsia (Bridge)
Neck Plate: 4-Bolt, "LIMITED EDITION", Custom Shop V Logo "Fender", Serial
 
COLORS
Sonic Blue with Custom Rocky Graphics; "Bebopalula.", "Go Cat Go."
 
MISCELLANEOUS
Strings: .010-.046
 
ACCESSORIES
Deluxe Hardshell Case
Certificate of Authenticity
 
COMMENTS
Distressed Hardware and Finish
Not to be confused with the Mexican George Harrison Rocky Stratocaster
 
FENDER SAYS
Stratocaster guitars were almost impossible to find in England in the late 1950s and early 1960s, so when George Harrison actually found one in a shop during the pre-fame early days of the Beatles, he meant to get it but was scooped by the guitarist for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes (whose drummer went by the stage name Ringo Starr).
A few dizzying years later, when the sessions for Beatles Help! album got under way in early 1965, Harrison had better luck—he and John Lennon sent roadie Mal Evans out to get one for each of them, and Evans soon returned with a matching pair of Sonic Blue Strat guitars. Harrison’s guitar, serial number 83840, still bore a decal from a music store where it was purchased at one point—“Grimwoods; The music people; Maidstone and Whitstable”. Thus, Help! marks the first appearance of a Stratocaster in Beatles music; heard in the low drone throughout that album’s “Ticket to Ride” and in the solo for “You’re Going to Lose That Girl.” Near the end of 1965, both Strats were put to even more prominent use on groundbreaking album Rubber Soul, most notably on the ringing chordal solo in “Nowhere Man”, and again on mid-1966’s Revolver.
In 1967, sometime between the end of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions and the June 25 live worldwide telecast of “All You Need is Love”, Harrison took up paint and brush himself to give his Stratocaster a multicolored psychedelic dayglo paint job. It also appeared prominently in the “I Am the Walrus” segment of 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour film. The guitar remained a favorite of Harrison’s for the rest of the decade, and by December 1969 Harrison had painted “Bebopalula” on the upper body, “Go Cat Go” on the pickguard and “Rocky”—the guitar’s nickname—on the headstock.
The Custom Shop is now both honored and thrilled to introduce a faithful recreation of Harrison’s “Rocky” Stratocaster. Master Builder Paul Waller examined and measured the original in exacting detail—body, neck (with a rare asymmetrical “C” profile), pickups, wiring, and everything else right down to Harrison’s famous DIY paint job. Even the “Grimwoods” decal remains in place on the back of the headstock. With these features and more, it’s an amazing and meticulously crafted Custom Shop tribute to a truly magical guitar played and loved by one of rock’s greatest guitarists.

ENG: The birth of Fender Custom Shop 
ITA: La nascita del Custom Shop Fender 


George Harrison Rocky stratocaster front
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Body front
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Headstock front
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Back
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Body Back
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Headstock Back
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Fretboard
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Neck
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Case
Courtesy of Willcutt Guitars

George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Case
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster bottom
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Body
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Body front
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Pickups
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Detail
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Detail
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Knobs
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Knobs
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Fretboard Dots
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Headstock
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Headstock
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Headstock Back
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Neck
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Back
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Body Back
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Body Back
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Neck Plate
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Case Candy
George Harrison Rocky stratocaster Case Candy
Courtesy of Musikhaus Hermann

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