Clear Acrylic 50's strat - where is it??

john11.2526@gmail.com · **Joined:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:12 am **Posts:** 212

Hello,

Was reading a bio-book about Fender, and it says that they made a clear acrylic (??) strat in the 50's (??) for public display so people could watch the tremolo bridge in action.

What happened to this strat? Anyone know. I imagine it would be very high on collectors' lists.

Michael

53 strat · **Joined:** Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:33 pm **Posts:** 68

Bill Carsons wife Susan probably still has it.
It was said to have weighed 18 pounds.

vwralph · **Joined:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:29 pm **Posts:** 505

vwralph · **Joined:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:29 pm **Posts:** 505

it is made of lucite and here's the story.

http://www.strat-central.com/external/LuciteStrat.asp.htm

john11.2526@gmail.com · **Joined:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:12 am **Posts:** 212

Very cool. Is it playable with that lucite fingerboard/neck?

orvilleowner · **Posted:** Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:19 pm

Quote:

Bill Carson evenually sold the Lucite Strat® and some other Fender®-related bits and pieces to guitar enthusiast and writer John Sprung in the mid 1980's. (John's works include the excellent book, Fender Amps – The First Fifty Years.) John played the guitar a number of times and in his own words, the guitar "played pretty well."

The Guitar's Current Whereabouts

In 1990, John sold it to a private collector, who still owns the guitar to this day. Although it was originally billed as “The $1,000 Guitar”, it is quite clearly worth substantially more than that sum now. In a recent article in the U.S magazine, Guitar Player, the Lucite Strat® was described as “The most valuable non-celebrity solidbody Fender® ever made.”

TheVelvetElvis · **Joined:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:12 pm **Posts:** 167

I wonder what that thing sounds like. :?:

Stigall · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:52 pm

I recently read about this in my Stratocaster Chronicals book and then found the same article posted in this thread. How in the world did I miss this thread? Haha! It is very interesting, indeed. I sure hope the Lucite Strat comes back into the public eye sometime soon! It's a pretty thing, isn't it...

cwpainter · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:59 pm

Needs graphite nut and saddles, shielding, noiseless pickups, locking tuners and strap locks.

Martian · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:07 pm

cwpainter wrote:

Needs graphite nut and saddles, shielding, noiseless pickups, locking tuners and strap locks.

Killjoy!

Twelvebar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:01 pm

Could only be sexier if most of it was hollow, and a couple fish were swimming around!!!

cwpainter · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:03 pm

Twelvebar wrote:

Could only be sexier if most of it was hollow, and a couple fish were swimming around!!!

Now you're getting the hang of it! :lol:

Twelvebar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:05 pm

Me: on phone with Custom Shop : So I would like to order an Aquarium Strat.
Fender Rep: Click!!

Me: :cry:

Stigall · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:49 pm

Wow! The forum has livened up today with the contest kick-off!

Ha! The comments about the fish in the Strat remind me of this scene from 'I'm Gonna' Get You Sucka' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKKgNC5EpM&feature=related

cvilleira · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:14 pm

TheVelvetElvis wrote:

I wonder what that thing sounds like. :?:

Don't forget that Ampeg sells the Dan Armstrong Plexi Guitar with a see thru plexiglass body.

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