Guys, saw an Eric Clapton Strat for sale in candy green color. I thought the color looked kind of cool, but my wife thought it didn't look that hot for rock & roll. I guess green is a color you either like or hate, not sure what I think about green for a guitar. He was asking around 1300.00 for it and it looked close to mint. Too much? What's your opinion on the green color? Thanks.

Make sure its real and then snatch it up. That color is kinda rare. Thats not a bad price.

If it checks out, TAKE IT!

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I agree with both the previous posters!!

If I had the scratch I'd snatch!!

sounds like a good deal


just looking at it i think the candy green would look better with rosewood.

I love green strats i have a 62 reissue surf green

The Candy Green finish is now discontinued.

The products site shows the guitar available in black, olympic white, pewter and torino red.

I believe this was a color option before EC let them do one in black (he resisted it for a bit). I think it was called 7-up green. Like others have said, If you have the $$ grab it while you can if it is the real thing.

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the vacuum store is a lot like the guitar store. but they do not attract the same clientele as the guitar store, cause if they did, the vacuum store would be loaded with a bunch of broke guys who just wanted to run the new vacuums.

One other thing, the guitar has Lace Sensor pickups, not Noiseless. Owner said they used the Lace Sensors before they went to the Noiseless. Does anyone know if that's correct? Thanks.

Yes that is correct

Also, as far as the rosewood fretboard goes, if you can find one, it would be a rare bird indeed as I read only 94 Clapton models were made with the rosewood board before they were discontinued. Now THAT would be one to grab up!

I think Clapton used one of these 94 rosewood-neck models during a gig at Dallas in 1990.

I also recalled a couple of videos showing him playing an early 1960's sunburst rosewood-neck Strat in 1986/1987 during rehearsals for the Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll shows with Chuck Berry, Johnnie Johnson and Keef RiffHard.

Here's a couple of shots featuring Eric while playing an SRV Strat onstage with Carlos Santana in April 28th, 2000.

I have a 1991 green EC strat with the 3 lance sensors that i got used in 2003.Out of 20 guitars, its my no.1, killer neck, sounds incredible,plus unusual colour,dont worry your wife will love it!!!!

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I had asked members of the forum here 6 months ago which should i keed a VG or EC strat and the majority said keep the EC and they were right.

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To fill in the blanks a bit Fender used Lace Sensors from the time the guitar came out (circa early 1988) to 2001 when they switched to the Vintage Noiseless.