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Post subject: Re: Clapton Signature Strat with a 7.25 radius neck???
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:22 pm
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Unfortunately not. This is the 50th Anniversary Gold Strat. Still a great guitar.

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Post subject: Re: Clapton Signature Strat with a 7.25 radius neck???
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:42 pm
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BadScooter wrote:
T2Stratman: I absolutely love the pickups in the Gold Strat. There's a percussive nature to them that the Vintage Noiseless in my EC lack. The things just pop. I got lucky and found the Gold Strat used in my local music shop for $450. It's a great guitar.


BadScooter....I bought mine brand new and I agree, the pickups do have a nice pop to em! If you got one at $450 you scored one for a good price! Enjoy em!

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Post subject: Re: Clapton Signature Strat with a 7.25 radius neck???
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:56 pm
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Seems we've gone astray on the topic. The blue signature on the back of the neck certainly piques one's interest. I expect that the '94 is proported to represent the year it was signed. Would be interesting to have more of a history of how the dealer acquired the guitar because in all of the discussion we've had regarding Clapton models I don't recall ever encountering a guitar with a production signature like that. Even the new Custom Shop models are signed differently on the back of the headstock. It begs the question as to why anyone in possession of Clapton's autograph on the back of a guitar necks's headstock would let it go like that? Hell....I'd put the neck in a display case. As previously mentioned, the Signature Series Strat was spec'd with a 9.5 radius neck. I own a Torino Red prototype whose neck has 21 frets, a 9.5 radius and a mode switch in the circuit. As far as the 'feel' of the neck, these guitars do get some hand finishing. There may have been more 'attention' paid to the guitars built 20 years ago, than presently. My prototype was built in the infant Custom shop and the head stock carries the earlier logo. It was built for the '87 Winter NAMM in preparation for the introduction of the Signature Series Strats. As Chromeface notes, Clapton made some final changes before the production models were released. Among those, he eliminated the mode switch keeping the circuit active all the time by changing the design of the jack, such that the circuit was completed when the jack was inserted. Later came the change in the number of neck frets. The neck feel has a slightly less taper than my '89 Pewter which has a low [E9000XXX] serial number . Mixing and matching of guitar parts is something we are all quite familiar with. What's missing here, in the usual course of events of such a discussion is a guitar autopsy. Having the neck pulled to identify the neck end and body cavity dates, builder's signatures/initials, and pulling the pickguard to ID pots, caps, resistors, and pickups. :idea: That's if the guitar is still available and permissable to do so. Curious as to what the asking price is?

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Post subject: Re: Clapton Signature Strat with a 7.25 radius neck???
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:21 pm
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Seems we've gone astray on the topic. The blue signature on the back of the neck certainly piques one's interest. I expect that the '94 is proported to represent the year it was signed. Would be interesting to have more of a history of how the dealer acquired the guitar because in all of the discussion we've had regarding Clapton models I don't recall ever encountering a guitar with a production signature like that. Even the new Custom Shop models are signed differently on the back of the headstock. It begs the question as to why anyone in possession of Clapton's autograph on the back of a guitar necks's headstock would let it go like that? Hell....I'd put the neck in a display case. As previously mentioned, the Signature Series Strat was spec'd with a 9.5 radius neck. I own a Torino Red prototype whose neck has 21 frets, a 9.5 radius and a mode switch in the circuit. As far as the 'feel' of the neck, these guitars do get some hand finishing. There may have been more 'attention' paid to the guitars built 20 years ago, than presently. My prototype was built in the infant Custom shop and the head stock carries the earlier logo. It was built for the '87 Winter NAMM in preparation for the introduction of the Signature Series Strats. As Chromeface notes, Clapton made some final changes before the production models were released. Among those, he eliminated the mode switch keeping the circuit active all the time by changing the design of the jack, such that the circuit was completed when the jack was inserted. Later came the change in the number of neck frets. The neck feel has a slightly less taper than my '89 Pewter which has a low [E9000XXX] serial number . Mixing and matching of guitar parts is something we are all quite familiar with. What's missing here, in the usual course of events of such a discussion is a guitar autopsy. Having the neck pulled to identify the neck end and body cavity dates, builder's signatures/initials, and pulling the pickguard to ID pots, caps, resistors, and pickups. :idea: That's if the guitar is still available and permissable to do so. Curious as to what the asking price is?


For the history the Elite Stratocasters which became the test bed for the Clapton signature series lacked off that mode switch. The circuit is activated once the guitar cable is plugged in the output jack on both models.

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So there's nothing new regarding the circuit changes. Clapton simply specified having the full-fledged functionality of the Elites in his personal stage and studio guitars, nothing else. The only changes were the gain increase and the TBX removal (as of March 2000).

The MDX gain volume was upped to 25dB once the design was finalized.


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