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Cruz is a former master builder who worked in the Fender Custom Shop.Cruz began working for the Fender company in 1987 and became a master builder in 2003. [1] Two projects that Cruz oversaw were the creation of the Stevie Ray Vaughan replica Stratocaster and the recreation of the 1961 Fiesta Red Stratocaster played by blues guitarist Gary Moore.
The Stratocaster was the first Fender guitar to feature three pickups and a spring tension vibrato system, as well as being the first Fender with a contoured body. [9] The Stratocaster's sleek, contoured body shape (officially referred to by Fender as the "Original Contour Body" [10] [11]) differed from the flat, squared edge design of the ...
These could be ordered with one, two or three pickups as they were custom-made instruments. All regular La Cabronita guitars used the TV Classic pickup by TV Jones. [1] The idea was spawned by Mike Eldred, head of the Fender Custom Shop. The goal was to make it different than the traditional Telecaster guitars. As Eldred put it:
The Jeff Beck Stratocaster [1] is an electric solid body guitar made by Fender Musical Instruments for British guitarist Jeff Beck. This Artist Signature guitar was introduced in 1991 and upgraded ten years later. The Custom Shop version, [2] introduced in 2004, is available in Olympic White and Surf Green finishes.
In 1988, the Eric Clapton Stratocaster was released, according to Clapton's specifications; he began playing his new signature model shortly after. Blackie was seen again by the public for a 1990 television commercial for the Japanese automobile firm Honda when, at the specific request of the company, Clapton used Blackie to record a new guitar ...
Two such guitars which were custom built for Eric Clapton came with a traditional '50s era-style maple neck and a hardtail non-tremolo bridge. In many respects, the Elite series certainly outlined the renewed innovating capacities of Fender but in an otherwise fairly conservative guitar world it did not prove a milestone as anticipated.
The slain body of Joseph Augustus Zarelli, 4, was discovered in February 1957 in Philadelphia's Fox Chase neighborhood. He was naked, severely beaten and stuffed into a cardboard box.
Fender Custom Shop David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster. In 2008, Fender announced that their Custom Shop would be making a David Gilmour Signature Black Stratocaster. Technicians worked with both Gilmour and his guitar technician Phil Taylor to recreate the Black Strat. The finished model featured in the Custom Shop lineup until 2019. [3]