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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:52 pm
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It would seem to me that the Gilmore strat almost exists. What if you took the vintage 57 hotrod in candy apple red and replaced the pickguard and pickups with the EMG-DG20.... wouldn't that just about be it?

This seems very close... prehaps not close enough?


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Ah, well now that’s interesting. Do we know conclusively which of Gilmour’s many Strats is to be the forthcoming Signature?

I’d somehow got the idea it is to be the black one he played at Live 8 and which is apparently on Comfortably Numb – black p/g, white knobs, Duncan p/ups. He says he bought it at Manny’s in 1970 with a bullet rod CBS headstock but has swapped out the neck several times: these days it’s 21 frets, m/n, classic peghead.

And I’m sure I read somewhere that he wants his sig to be a player’s guitar, like the EC or the EJ, rather than just a vanity project.

On the other hand, Gilmour also owns the Strat with serial no. 0001. Not actually the first ever made, but the neck is dated May 1954, so it’s back in the prototype phase. After the brouhaha over “Blackie” imagine the scramble to get on the list to buy a replica of that one!

What would a collector pay for a copy of 0001, alainlafrance, sir? Or for the original…?


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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:14 am
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the signature that was supposed to come put last year is the black one with black pickguard and maple neck used on Darkside Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall amongst others

for an article about that guitar (the original one) go to : http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=66

for an article about the #001 strat check out: http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=259

and btw Strataholic its Gilmoure NOT gilmore

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bluestube wrote:

and btw Strataholic its Gilmoure NOT gilmore


Actually, it's Gilmour. :D

And yes, it's supposed to be the Black Strat.


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Gravity Jim wrote:
And yes, it's supposed to be the Black Strat.


Ah-ha. Thanks, Jim. Well, that's interesting: because in so many of our minds the quintessential Gilmour sound involves his EMGs (which crop up in so many debates on this forum), yet that guitar has Duncans.

And thanks for the article links, bluestube. We'll never get definitive answers to some of these questions, though: that article implies that just the bridge p/up is a Duncan SSL-1, but in an interview in Guitarist magazine (#276) Gilmour says that all three pups were personally wound for him by Seymour Duncan, after various tryouts. (Lord, I can be a geek.)

BTW, I've given up worrying how to write his name after he ceased being easy-goin' Dave Gilmour and became David. No doubt something to do with cutting his hair.


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Gravity Jim wrote:
bluestube wrote:

and btw Strataholic its Gilmoure NOT gilmore


Actually, it's Gilmour. :D

And yes, it's supposed to be the Black Strat.


Damn!! please forgive me David becouse i have done wrong!

i mean how could i misspell the name of one of my alltime favourite guitar players?

think im gonna go cry now.....

(btw im not being sarcastic or anything i am actually mad for misspelling his name)

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Shame on me - Mr. David L. Gilmour. Thanks for all the great info. I guess I was way out in left field with my original post. That's OK 'cause I'm going to go further out now... it looks like I might be in love with the relatively new Jim Root tele. Very sweet IMHO. Could be just what the doctor ordered... biggest problem now is maple or ebony?


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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:53 pm
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Strataholic wrote:
It would seem to me that the Gilmore strat almost exists. What if you took the vintage 57 hotrod in candy apple red and replaced the pickguard and pickups with the EMG-DG20.... wouldn't that just about be it?

This seems very close... prehaps not close enough?



When you read the bio on the black strat and all the internal changes it went through structurally, the project to reincarnate that guitar would have to be something akin to what they went through for the Van Halen. As a finished product it will likely be one helluva guitar to own. However, at the same price point, most will likely need to be satisfied with the DG-20 in a candy apple red guitar, or any other color for that matter.

Consider the expense of $1500 on a Vintage Hotrod, and to change the powerplant add another $300. If that new neck profile is what you're after as well and is worth the coin to you, by all means have at it

Patience, patience. The company loves all this heavy breathing and drooling.

Meanwhile, they've thrown you a bone on the YM.

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What is YM Doc?


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YM = Yngwie Malmsteen :?:

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The July '08 issue of Guitar World has an article about a book titled 'The Black Strat' by DG's guitar tech/equip mgr/studio mgr Phil Taylor. Two and a half pages of history and photos of the heavily modified workhorse used on all the biggies. Like others have said, this is the one being repro'd by the Custom Shop.

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noley wrote:
The July '08 issue of Guitar World has an article about a book titled 'The Black Strat' by DG's guitar tech/equip mgr/studio mgr Phil Taylor. Two and a half pages of history and photos of the heavily modified workhorse used on all the biggies. Like others have said, this is the one being repro'd by the Custom Shop.

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Why do I get this sick feeling that the DG strat will be way beyond my means?


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Strataholic wrote:
noley wrote:
The July '08 issue of Guitar World has an article about a book titled 'The Black Strat' by DG's guitar tech/equip mgr/studio mgr Phil Taylor. Two and a half pages of history and photos of the heavily modified workhorse used on all the biggies. Like others have said, this is the one being repro'd by the Custom Shop.

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Why do I get this sick feeling that the DG strat will be way beyond my means?



Avoid becoming ill. Either save your pennies because it's worth it to you or realize that the target group for these 'tribute' instruments is a collector's market where disposable income is of no consequence.

$25K can cure a great many ills and having one of these babies on the wall when the mortgage payment is overdue isn't one of them.

You have a decent collection there. Enjoy it.

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