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2013 Ritchie blackmoor strat isn't a duo-caster anymore

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ ... rat-569935

its just a normal fucking black strat. bullshit.

fender keeps getting more and more lazy with this guitar.


here is V 2.0 from a couple years ago. too lazy to make a duocaster pickguard. they just put a mustang cover in there with nothing under it



the real fucking deal V 1.0 ritchie guitar from the mid 90's

But hey, at least it has got a real fingerboard.

Richie's original mainstay Strat that his sigs were based on had the empty cover in the middle, being a modified factory Strat. I imagine this was just a case of "tributing" a bit more closely (i.e. copying a guitar he actually used/was photographed with a lot back in the day). I'd find it hard to believe that Fender were "too lazy" to make a pickguard with one tweak to it, when they were scalloping fingerboards for said model no less.



Note that the V1 has a strap button on the top-middle of the headstock face, which Richie did to his original "as a conversation piece". I bet most of these conversations regarded how lit he must've been when he did that.

that first guitar even had the strings all fucking janky on the headstock. it shipped with un cut strings ffs

Ah, after reading that article a bit more closely yeah, they're tributing his '69 Strat that he used in Deep Purple, hence the middle pickup.

So it went
V1: whatever he wanted at that point, 2 pickups and scalloped fingerboard
V2: how he modded a Strat before he had a sig, one pickup removed and scalloped fingerboard
V3: his first Strat, a bog-standard '69 model

Seems a bit weird that they'd give a regular old black Strat to some guy for a sig, but given it's got a U-profile and 7.25" radius it's probably a better Fender than 90% of the other shit they did this year. Then again it could be one of those $10,000 + background check models.