ON HOLD: Fender Custom Shop David Gilmour Stratocaster Relic (USED, 2014)
S-Style · Single Coils Pickups · Used
A 2014 Fender Custom Shop Relic recreation of David Gilmour’s Black Strat, with an SSL-5 bridge pickup, neck-adding mini toggle, and sunburst peeking through the worn black finish.
Some guitars are famous enough that you can picture them before you even see a photo, and David Gilmour’s Black Strat is one of them. It’s the guitar behind a huge part of the Pink Floyd catalog, and the Fender Custom Shop worked directly with David and his longtime tech, Phil Taylor, to recreate it down to the kind of details only true Floyd obsessives would notice (hi, that’s us). This 2014 Relic is one of those recreations, and it came to us in excellent condition with no obvious wear beyond factory relic.Start with the finish. The alder body wears black nitro with Relic-level aging, and where the black has worn through you’ll find a three-tone sunburst underneath, a nod to the original, which started life as a sunburst before it went over to the dark side. The thick, beveled black pickguard and the shortened tremolo arm complete the look, and both are as much a part of the Black Strat’s identity as the color.
The electronics follow David’s own setup, with a Custom Shop Fat ’50s in the neck, a custom-wound single-coil in the middle, and a Seymour Duncan SSL-5 in the bridge, which is hotter than a vintage Strat bridge pickup and gives leads that singing, sustaining quality you’re already hearing in your head (yes, that solo). The real party trick is the mini toggle, which adds the neck pickup to the first three switch positions, so you get neck-and-bridge and all-three combinations that a standard Strat simply can’t do. It’s the kind of feature that sends you exploring, and we lost more than one afternoon to it.
The one-piece maple neck is carved to a thin-shouldered C modeled on the early-’80s ‘57 reissue neck David used on the Black Strat, with a vintage 7.25" radius and 21 vintage-style frets. It’s slim without feeling skinny, and the rounder radius makes chords and rhythm parts feel easy and natural under the hand.
If you’re a lifelong Floyd fan or just love a great-playing Strat with a few clever extra tricks, this one is a whole lot of fun to spend time with.
| Body | Alder |
| Finish | Nitrocellulose lacquer |
| Color | Black over 3-Tone Sunburst |
| Pickups | Custom Shop Fat ’50s in the neck / custom-wound single-coil in the middle / Seymour Duncan SSL-5 in the bridge |
| Controls | Master volume / Tone 1 for the neck pickup / Tone 2 for the middle pickup |
| Switching | 5-way blade plus a mini toggle that adds the neck pickup in positions 1/2/3 |
| Bridge | American Vintage synchronized tremolo with a custom beveled block and shortened arm |
| Pickguard | 1-ply beveled black acrylic (.120" thick - only used on the Gilmour model) |
| Tuners | Fender/Gotoh vintage-style |
| Neck | One-piece straight-grain maple |
| Fingerboard | Maple |
| Profile | 1983 thin-shouldered “C” shape (0.79"-0.87") |
| Neck finish | “Thin-skin” dark tint nitrocellulose lacquer |
| Radius | 7 1/4" radius |
| Frets | 21 vintage-style frets |
| Nut | Bone 1.675" |
| Inlays | Black dots |
| Scale length | 25 1/2" |
| Case | Non-Original hardshell (CoA & tremolo bar included - no other case candy is included) |
| Serial Number | R77473 |
| Weight | 7lb. 7oz. |
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