Fender, Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster, 2005 - Eric Johnson

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Specifications
Builder: 
Fender
Model: 
Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster
Serial Number: 
EJ00001
Year: 
2005
Color: 
Candy Apple Red
Body: 
Alder
Neck: 
Maple - one piece
Fretboard: 
Maple
Pickups: 
Custom Single Coils
The Story Behind

 

About the Guitar:

After years of painstaking research and design, the Fender Eric Johnson Stratocaster Electric Guitar has finally arrived. Designed with Eric by Custom Shop guru Michael Frank-Braun, this beauty is based on a '57, and combines the best of vintage design with modern electronics technology. 

The '57-style, 2-piece alder body has an ultrathin, Custom Shop-quality nitrocellulose lacquer finish that results in better resonance. Johnson opted for a one-piece, quartersawn maple neck with a 12" radius that's finished with a thin-skinned glossy lacquer and vintage tint. 19 prototype pickups were created before Johnson found the tone he was looking for. The Custom Shop-modified single coils use a new wire material and winding technique for the magnets giving them a unique, Eric Johnson-approved sound. Johnson and Braun also included one of Eric's most famous Strat modifications by wiring the tone controls to the neck and bridge pickups, instead of the standard neck/middle tone configuration of most Strats. 

This guitar offers tonal perfection thanks to the discerning ear of one of the best players to ever pick up an axe. And it's pleasing to the eye as well, with its large arm contour, '57-style pickguard and shallow pickup cavities, plus thin headstock with vintage staggered tuners that eliminate the need for a string tree. Unbelievable Custom Shop-like quality in a production axe. 

Features:

  • '57-style, 2-piece alder body
  • Body cavities true to '57 specs
  • One-piece, quartersawn plain maple neck
  • Thinner, vintage-style headstock
  • 12" radius American Series-style frets
  • Staggered vintage machine heads eliminate string tree
  • Thin neck cap
  • Bone nut
  • Custom Shop-modified single-coil pickups
  • Master volume, neck tone, and bridge tone controls
  • Vintage tremolo with silver painted block
  • '57-style string recess
  • Thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish

This is number 1 of the production model. It has been given to Eric Johnson and he did promotional shots with that guitar. He also played it for some years before he sold the guitar. It has a additional set of electronics specially adapted for Eric. It can be seen in action on Eric Johnson's educational DVD: Art of Guitar.

http://youtu.be/lbjIL3V9t2w

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