Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster
The Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster is one of the Fender Stratocaster signature series. It is a custom designed electric gutar as used by Ritchie Blackmore when he was in the British rock bands Deep Purple, Rainbow and his current group Blackmore's Night.
Specification
Body
- Stratocaster shape
- Solid Bodied Basswood
- Olympic White colour
- Polyurethane finish
- 70's style Tremolo Bridge
- Nickel/Chrome plated Hardare
- White pickguard (3 ply, white-black-white)
- 2 Gold lace pickups (+ 1 Roland GK-2A pickup in 'Roland Ready' model)
Neck
- Maple wood oval shape neck
- polyurethane finish
- Steel truss rod
- Scalloped Rosewood fretboard with lacquer finish
- 22 meduim-jumbo frets
- white markers at 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 17th, 19th and 21st frets
Headstock
- 70's style large headstock
- Lacquer finished
- 6 nickel/chrome plated locking nuts
- Printed black 'Fender Stratocaster' logo with printed black 'Ritchie Blackmore' Signature
Other parts
- Super 250L strings
- 1 master volume control
- 2 tone controls
- 3 position blade pickup swithching