Namm 2009: Ritchie Blackmore strat

[Sarge]

http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0139010

:: Close Window Model Name Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster® Model Number 013-9010-(305) Series Artist Series Colors (305) Olympic White, (Polyester Finish) Body Alder Neck Maple, “U” Shape, (Gloss Polyurethane Finish) Fingerboard Graduated Scalloped Rosewood, 7.25” Radius (184 mm) No. of Frets 21 Vintage Style Frets Pickups 1 Seymour Duncan® Quarter Pound Flat™ SSL-4 Single-Coil Strat® Pickup (Neck), 1 Non-Active “Dummy” Pickup (Middle), 1 Reverse Wound/Reverse Polarity Seymour Duncan® Quarter Pound Flat™ SSL-4 Single-Coil Strat® Pickup (Bridge) Controls Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck and Middle Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup) Pickup Switching 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickup Position 3. Neck Pickup Bridge Vintage Style Synchronized Tremolo Machine Heads Fender®/Schaller® Vintage “F” Style Tuning Machines Hardware Chrome Pickguard 3-Ply White Scale Length 25.5” (648 mm) Width at Nut 1.650” (42 mm) Unique Features Graduated Scalloped Rosewood Fretboard, Ritchie Blackmore Signature on Front of Headstock, Flush Mounted Dunlop® Straplocks, Large ‘70s Style Headstock, ‘70s Style Decal, Bullet Truss Rod Adjustment Nut, 3-Bolt Neck Plate with Micro-Tilt™ Neck Adjustment, Pearloid Dot Position Inlays, Black Plastic Knobs, Pickup Covers, Tremolo and Switch Tips, Synthetic Bone Nut Strings Fender® Super Bullets® 3250L, Nickel Plated Steel, (.009 to .042), P/N 073-3250-003 Accessories Deluxe Gig Bag Case Deluxe Gig Bag Introduced 1/2009 Notice Product Prices, Features, Specifications and Availability Are Subject To Change Without Notice :: Close Window

[ELVIS]

Nice, but I thought the newer Blackmore Strats had three pickups...

Not the "dummy" pup...

[Matt White]

Cool guitar....

I'm with ya SARGE...BLACKMORE needs to drop the ancient music and ROCK

[Diamondjimi]

The Ritchie Blackmore Signature Lute™ ...



Blackmore Lute™ Features:

Back and sides: 21 ribs, wood of choice with ebony spacers
Italian spruce front
Hand cut rose modeled on the original
Decorative carving around rose
Spruce with ebony veneer
Head maple rails with ebony trim
Ebony fingerboard, with points
Pegs: rosewood or boxwood
End button: rosewood or boxwood
Bone nut
Maple or pear bass rider with ebony lining
Maple or pear chanterelle with ebony lining
Nylon top strings and octaves with wound nylon basses
Ian Gillan Repellant Mace™ secret compartment
Pear bridge with ebony top plate
Ebony outlined mother of pearl or ivory heart at bottom of front
Ebony front edge half binding
Form fitting Kingham case w./ Blackmore Signature Tights™

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[chefcraig]

It's a shame there are only the two images at the Fender link. I'd really like to get a good look at the neck, in order to determine the depth of the scalloping. The term "Graduated" doesn't really offer much in the way of detail, ya know?

[Diamondjimi]

Fuck that I'm gettin the Lute!

[jhale667]

It's a shame there are only the two images at the Fender link. I'd really like to get a good look at the neck, in order to determine the depth of the scalloping. The term "Graduated" doesn't really offer much in the way of detail, ya know?

Yeah, though from the pic it does seem to be less drastic a scallop as the Yngwie Strat...

[chefcraig]

Yeah, though from the pic it does seem to be less drastic a scallop as the Yngwie Strat...

Oh yeah, definitely not the "spooned-out" appearance of the Yngwie guitar. Hell, you could lose a cuff-link playing that thing.

Thanks for the image, J.

[Terry]

Fuck that I'm gettin the Lute!

If this official, Ritchie Blackmore signature style endorsement doesn't spark a boost in Lute sales across the globe then nothing will!!

[Terry]

Cool guitar....

I'm with ya SARGE...BLACKMORE needs to drop the ancient music and ROCK

He really does, agreed.

It's like, okay, Ritchie...you've done the cliched "I'm giving up the hard rock guitar hero status for the tried-and-true Renaissance Fair revival / return to my English Folk music roots" trip that so many other inactive hard rock heroes have taken...but time to put the Strat back on, leave the wench offstage and start rocking again.

[GAR]

The Blackmore scallop is more the traditional lute-style "stair-step" version.

This is supposed to be different than the Malmsteens' which is a straight-ahead dishing of the fingerboard. The stairstep goes down a bit from the preceding fret behind it, down to a straight angle stopping just before the fret so as not to cause the fret slot to break out or splinter. Then it is radiused up ever so slightly.

They get this shit wrong, constantly. They should do the obvious correct thing instead of just throwing spaghetti to the wall so to speak seeing what the public buys as opposed to really doing it the right way the first time.

The Eric Johnson model is exactly what it looks like it should be, because otherwise he wouldn't put his name on it. Unfortunately most rock guitarists aren't so critical.

[Reverberator]

Malmsteen scalloping,only pic i have at mo.

[GAR]

Pretty drastic, moreso than Yngwie's original.

Do you find it comfortable playing or are you used to dancing on the wires by now?

I'd show my neck, it tapers from -85 thousandths at the 22nd fret to about 110 at the nut, something like that, less the height of the fret.

[Reverberator]

Well it's an 07 upgrade model with deeper scalloping than the previous models.

It's a dream to play.....well it is now that i had a tech sort out the 'factory' quality issues.
Now I'm no techno guitar guy but let me just say that the 'playing' quality of this instrument was just shit .... all for only £1200.

[Diamondjimi]

If this official, Ritchie Blackmore signature style endorsement doesn't spark a boost in Lute sales across the globe then nothing will!!