Making Blackie replicas

Doctor J

Interesting wee video of Fender Custom Shop setting about making replicas of Eric Clapton's Blackie strat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d0Du6RqdTs

Keyzer

Seen this before, quite cool...

feylya

That's pretty cool. The one thing that made me interested was how quickly they stick the frets in. Considering the price of that instrument, I would have thought they would have been a bit more careful.

Dord

Cool, thanks for posting it. I thought it was weird seeing all the blackies lined up with the exact same wear.......freaky.

Doctor J

feylya wrote: »

That's pretty cool. The one thing that made me interested was how quickly they stick the frets in. Considering the price of that instrument, I would have thought they would have been a bit more careful.

You have to assume they know what they're doing. If they do the frets like that and it works, why change the process? You can see a guy levelling them later in the video.

Quattroste

Quite GAS inducing.

Squirrel

I know they have to take it apart, but I'd be scared ****less of breaking something, especially when using a power screwdriver.

Ancient1

Senior Master Builder. What a cool title.

I could use one of them dudes for my pathetic project.

Dord

Squirrel wrote: »

I know they have to take it apart, but I'd be scared ****less of breaking something, especially when using a power screwdriver.

Imagine if they lost a screw.

"Oh CRAP!.... thats $10,000 gone off the value."


:D

Frankiestylee

I wonder is "Blackie" much differant then a regular fender, I mean, the insides etc. Did Clapton go a-tinkering?

leninbenjamin

Frankiestylee wrote: »

I wonder is "Blackie" much differant then a regular fender, I mean, the insides etc. Did Clapton go a-tinkering?

he built it from the best parts of a bunch of strats. so he tinkered a lot, but i think the circuit layout is the same as a normal strat if that's what you mean?

jamieh

Hi all,

Just came back from the States.

I bought a "Blackie" Strat over there.

However, it was only around $1,700. Aren't the proper ones like $20,000?

Doctor J

I think you might have bought a black strat with Clapton's electronics and a V shaped neck, known as Blackie by some guitar dealers, but really more appropriately known as the Eric Clapton signature model. This one is a replica of his battered black strat, the real Blackie, made with all the missing paint, scrapes, knocks and aging to closely mimic his original black strat.

BostonB

I can understand the attraction from a collector. But not a player. I'd have though a player would probably be more interested in the signature models.

Doctor J

Although when it comes to battered strats... there's Rory Gallagher and there's the one and only Stevie Ray Vaughan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCp0Shxmozk