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Probably the old adage - the whole is beter than the sum of it's parts??


..........in many ways, my friend. :wink:


Might not apply to collecting or might it ?


Definitely not for the member who's just posted on the Custom Shop Forum. Already swapped out the trem handle. Now wants to change the pickguard.

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I was actually at guitar center today and played a David Gilmour Replica Strat and i must say....AMAZING. The EMGs are great and the overall feel of the guitar is great. I have a 70's style strat that is a reissue, but i liked the v-shaped neck that this guitar has which is from a 50's style strat. Its incredible the way fender replicated every little detail of the guitar


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I was actually at guitar center today and played a David Gilmour Replica Strat and i must say....AMAZING. The EMGs are great and the overall feel of the guitar is great. I have a 70's style strat that is a reissue, but i liked the v-shaped neck that this guitar has which is from a 50's style strat. Its incredible the way fender replicated every little detail of the guitar


Interesting. I'm sure the (Gilmour Owner's Club :P :P :P ) on this Forum, of which yours truly is one of the charter buyers of THE BLACK STRAT replicas, would be interested in more information about the guitar you played. Phil Taylor's authoritative book put's a red and white '57 RI Stratocaster into DG's hands about the time the new Fender company started producing guitars again, in limited quantities in the mid-80's. The red guitar was fitted with EMG's in order silence the signal chain that DG was working through, because the light's were causing interference. Ultimately, he reverted back to the black guitar.

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the black strat went through a wide variety of changed over the years that it was on-and-off his primary guitar. the version of the replica i played was the relic which had the EMG active pickups, where the N.O.S. version(from what the experts at guitar center told me) has the coil pickups


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the black strat went through a wide variety of changed over the years that it was on-and-off his primary guitar. the version of the replica i played was the relic which had the EMG active pickups, where the N.O.S. version(from what the experts at guitar center told me) has the coil pickups


"from what the experts at guitar center told me" :lol: :lol: :lol:
It's a One-Off Go buy it !!!
It's the only DG Tribute Strat with active EMG pick ups and furthermore operating with light sensors without any battery !!!
A technology of the future already available !! :idea:
Go ahead, it's collectible.


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I' thinking that he played a red strat with the DG loaded pick guard in it. Not a CS model like we have.


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I' thinking that he played a red strat with the DG loaded pick guard in it. ....

Not sure, not sure or is he colorblind :wink:


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I' thinking that he played a red strat with the DG loaded pick guard in it. ....

Not sure, not sure or is he colorblind :wink:


I'm like Doc, I'd like to hear more about that guitar. i.e. was it a Fender CS and what was the price. Did the CS make a model of the red one Alain?


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I' thinking that he played a red strat with the DG loaded pick guard in it. ....

Not sure, not sure or is he colorblind :wink:


I'm like Doc, I'd like to hear more about that guitar. i.e. was it a Fender CS and what was the price. Did the CS make a model of the red one Alain?


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alainlafrance wrote:
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I' thinking that he played a red strat with the DG loaded pick guard in it. ....

Not sure, not sure or is he colorblind :wink:


I'm like Doc, I'd like to hear more about that guitar. i.e. was it a Fender CS and what was the price. Did the CS make a model of the red one Alain?


Not as far as I know Franck


Thanks Alain! I know you can buy a DG-20 loaded pick guard and put it on a normal strat for a couple hundred dollars but very far from a Custom Shop!!

Like this one
http://www.guitarcenter.com/EMG-EMG-DG2 ... 1323419.gc


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the black strat went through a wide variety of changed over the years that it was on-and-off his primary guitar. the version of the replica i played was the relic which had the EMG active pickups, where the N.O.S. version(from what the experts at guitar center told me) has the coil pickups


"from what the experts at guitar center told me" :lol: :lol: :lol:
It's a One-Off Go buy it !!!
It's the only DG Tribute Strat with active EMG pick ups and furthermore operating with light sensors without any battery !!!
A technology of the future already available !! :idea:
Go ahead, it's collectible.


With all due respect, none of this makes sense :!: :shock: And what are 'light sensors' anyway :?:

Here are some outtakes from Taylor's book for a time line:

-the Black Strat went on loan to the Hard Rock Cafe for display in Dallas, Texas as a thank you for a charitable contribution the company made to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center. It remained there for over 10 years until recalled and refurbished, but it not go back into use as his primary instrument until 2005.
-he used a '57V cream colored Strat on the About Face tour in 1984. They were both standard modesl as previously mentioned. The only mod was the trem arm.
-the Red Strat, a 57V candy apple red guitar, was used by him between 1985-2006. The original SC's were replaced w/ 3 EMG SA's, an EXG, and SPC pot (the setup on the DG-20 pickguard), because RF interference and noise from the lights and gain stages they were using were bleeding through the single coil pickups.

Now I don't know what the folks at this yet unidentified GC branch had ordered up but, personally, if it wasn't a 57VRI in candy apple red finish, w/a single ply white pickguard, 3 EMG-SA's, SPC, and EXG tone pots, a modified trem arm, in at least NOS or closet classic condition, it does fit the description of a Red Strat Replica as I would have ordered it.

Gee, I might just go ahead and do that, and have 'em rout it like a Clapton so there's a place for the battery :idea: :P ........but.......then again......there's the new wall unit for the Florida house :cry:

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I' thinking that he played a red strat with the DG loaded pick guard in it. ....

Not sure, not sure or is he colorblind :wink:


I'm like Doc, I'd like to hear more about that guitar. i.e. was it a Fender CS and what was the price. Did the CS make a model of the red one Alain?


Not as far as I know Franck


Thanks Alain! I know you can buy a DG-20 loaded pick guard and put it on a normal strat for a couple hundred dollars but very far from a Custom Shop!!

Like this one
http://www.guitarcenter.com/EMG-EMG-DG2 ... 1323419.gc


I've already told my story about having one on my '97. That was the famous where to stow the battery' thread. That was a nice guitar but it was swapped out for a CS strat.

Here's one for the 'newbie': Welcome and listen up good!!.....If I had had the benefit of my 2+ years on this Forum as of 5 years ago I would have made very different decisions about the guitars I owned back then, that CS order would have been executed much differently, and I probably would still have the guitar today. :wink:

You best hang out here for awhile. Regardless of your background and experience there isn't anyone on the Forum, regardless of same, who hasn't been impressed by what we've been able to share with and teach each other. For example: Ceri's work on the 'ninja' Strat body (thread is on the Strat Forum) has literally everyone knocked out in amazement. :wink:

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zzdoc wrote:
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"from what the experts at guitar center told me" :lol: :lol: :lol:
It's a One-Off Go buy it !!!
It's the only DG Tribute Strat with active EMG pick ups and furthermore operating with light sensors without any battery !!!
A technology of the future already available !! :idea:
Go ahead, it's collectible.


With all due respect, none of this makes sense :!: :shock: And what are 'light sensors' anyway :?:

:oops: A somewhat sarcastic reply about GC "experts" well known knowledge
The rest was fantasy :roll:


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I' thinking that he played a red strat with the DG loaded pick guard in it. ....

Not sure, not sure or is he colorblind :wink:


I'm like Doc, I'd like to hear more about that guitar. i.e. was it a Fender CS and what was the price. Did the CS make a model of the red one Alain?


Not as far as I know Franck


Thanks Alain! I know you can buy a DG-20 loaded pick guard and put it on a normal strat for a couple hundred dollars but very far from a Custom Shop!!

Like this one
http://www.guitarcenter.com/EMG-EMG-DG2 ... 1323419.gc


I had a Pensa Suhr fitted with active EMG pick ups.

The only positive point about them is that they can send the signal through piles of footswitches, processors, reverbs etc, etc and tenths of meters of cables and at the end still delivering a decent clear sound if needed.
Otherwise...


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I had a Pensa Suhr fitted with active EMG pick ups.The only positive point about them is that they can send the signal through piles of footswitches, processors, reverbs etc, etc and tenths of meters of cables and at the end still delivering a decent clear sound if needed.
Otherwise...[/quote]


Might that have been the MK1?? We go way back here in Manhattan with John and Rudy. Of course they have since parted ways. Have you ever been to the 48th St. shop with the generic Fender headstock as a front door handle?

The observations you made about the EMG's as good 'drivers' is the reason why DG used them. Having resumed use of the Black Strat I would expect that they found another way to either shield the present SC's in that guitar, or otherwise noise cancel his signal chain.

Still waiting to learn more about that GC 'one off wonder'. Hopefully we have saved someone some hard earned coin.

Happy New Year. Did they light up the old tower again for New Year's Eve?

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