Fender Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Stratocaster Masterbuilt Dale Wilson #CZ574478 - heavy relic 3-color sunburst

In 1997, Donald Gallagher, the brother of the late Irish guitarist, entrusted the Fender Custom Shop with his original 1961 Stratocaster, so that they could build a faithful reproduction of it. Initially intended to be produced in a limited edition of forty, the Custom Shop Rory Gallagher Signature Stratocaster met with such enthusiasm that it was finally decided to add it to the catalog for good.

Entirely built by master luthier Dale Wilson, the FENDER Custom Shop Masterbuilt MBDW Rory Gallagher Tribute Stratocaster Heavy Relic 3-Color Sunburst #CZ574478 (9213000475) solid-body electric guitar features an Alder body, a bolt-on neck in Maple, a Rosewood fingerboard (Early '60s C profile, 21 medium-jumbo frets, radius 9.5" radius), Custom '60s Strat pickups and American Vintage vibrato. Dale Wilson joined Fender in 2003, joined the Custom Shop in 2005 and became Master Builder in 2011.
Building guitars has been the Californian's passion since childhood. Right out of high school in the late 1980s, he joined a small music store, where he carried out his first repairs and modifications. He then spent some time at Dobro and Rickenbacker before moving on to Fender, where he got his first taste of Guild, Gretsch and Benedetto guitars, before beginning his apprenticeship with Custom Shop Master Builders. He enjoys designing singular models, such as his famous Resophonic Thinline Telecaster®. He designed five guitars that were a huge success at the 2011 NAMM Show, earning him the honorary title of Master Builder.