00:14Oh they changed the finish on the necks. They changed the finish in the necks in 58 just
00:20slightly and they they tend to kind of spider web check. This one's pretty cool because the
00:25logo's still intact. A lot of 58s the logo flaked off. It was just they were changing the process a
00:32little bit but you know this guitar Fender still makes a Stratocaster and and you know think about
00:38it. Leo Fender in 1954 came out with something that looked exactly like this and you know that's
00:43seven years and you're like you know you got it right the first time and you know a Strat is
00:49a
00:49desert island guitar you can pretty much do anything you can play the blues you can play
00:53you know you know you play the blues you play rock you play anything on it but most notably
01:00you know one of the first late 50s 58 59 strats to be played would be Buddy Guy and Buddy
01:07had a late
01:0850s one like this so probably there's some problem you know like we all buy our guitar heroes guitars
01:13because we want to be Buddy Guy or we want to be Rory Gallagher so I'm no different Rory's probably
01:19no different and you know it's also just availability it's like I don't know where he got this but it's
01:23like they weren't like growing on trees you know he probably bought it on the road in America from
01:29some a little music store and again these cost in the low hundreds of dollars you know 50 years ago
01:35you know not until about 1990 then that they start you know like go up in value when I started
01:40buying
01:41these they were $2,500 and now they're like $45,000 good investment by the way better than the 401k
01:49but this one sounds good again you know you know I believe these are Rory's strings but if not
01:56they've been on here a long effing time
02:36there you go yeah he did say um it is like the sound similar to Buddy Guy he was quoted
02:42saying that
02:42so yeah my theory is correct yeah your theory is correct and so um the main differences between
02:48his 61 strat why do you think he would bounce between the 61 to then this 58 well there's a
02:53there's a
02:54considerable uh sound difference between a maple neck strat which is this all maple and um a 61 strat
03:01which would be a slab rosewood fingerboard meaning that the back and the headstock part of it in the
03:06back of the neck is maple and then they put a large slab of Brazilian rosewood um on on the
03:13on the front
03:13and it gives it a warmer sound it's a little bit more of a rock sound these are tend to
03:19be more glassy um
03:21but you know you know if you have a if you're a strat connoisseur or a strat player like Rory
03:28was you
03:28would want to have a maple neck and a rosewood because it just depends on the song whatever tool
03:33you want you know I prefer maple neck strats just because you know there's a Buddy Guy yeah and would
03:40you say there's anything different about this particular guitar than other 58 strats you play um well other 58 that
03:46I own I have one up in the on the deck right now um that's blonde finish um this one
03:52in particular
03:53the pickguard has been changed this is a later pickguard probably from the 80s or 90s uh the
03:58original one would have been single ply uh the pickups appear to be original the knobs and the and the
04:03football is are is original the finish is original which is cool and uh so we don't have to do
04:11that again
04:11and then you know you could tell he really played it that's really that's really fun and most
04:17interesting that the tremolo is blocked so the tremolo was non-function when he played this so
04:22i know he was he wasn't like a tremolo bar kind of i don't think i've ever seen him use
04:27it so it makes
04:28sense that it's blocked and it just gives a more of a solid you know connection to the body and
04:35uh no
04:36whoever gets this um is getting a really great strat to begin with um and the fact that it's rory
04:42gallagher's and again like the other guitar rory strap i don't suggest using this but this is
04:48something to frame and put on the wall but uh the guitar is something to play and use leo made
04:54a lot of
04:54guitars um maplelect strats tend to go for more money than rosewood strats always historically been
05:01i'm not sure of the shipping numbers um given the fact that the leo you know when when rock and
05:09roll
05:09came out buddy holly he started seeing you know people like you know gene vincent in the blue caps
05:15playing you know stratocaster guitars buddy guy playing stratocaster guitars you know the the birth
05:21of rock and roll leo sold a lot of guitars back in the 50s and early 60s and then you
05:28know when the
05:28beatles came along in 63 64 the electric guitar market fender had to go to two shifts to keep up
05:34with the demand because every kid wanted a you know a guitar and you know leo's intention with these was
05:41you wear the neck out take the neck off we'll sell you a new neck and just stick it on
05:44there they're
05:45they're they're they're bolted together as opposed to a gibson where the gibson is made out of you know
05:52two pieces of wood but it glued together so it's not interchangeable everything about this guitar is
05:57interchangeable you could take another 58 strats tuners and stick them on there you know so it's
06:01it's kind of you know a genius um invention and you know the pickups were leo's design the whole layout
06:08was you know him and george folton did a great job and and and they just laid it out and
06:13it hasn't
06:14changed for 70 years any other notes on this particular car no but change the damn strings
06:24it's like it's like well we had um when i played rory's guitar actually i can tell you this a
06:31cool
06:31thing about this not all fender necks were flamey this one's actually got a nice curl to it you can
06:36see
06:37it on the back and and on the front not all of them came like that um a lot of
06:45them were very plain
06:45wood but you could see like the tiger stripes on this one and it's again it's a great strat with
06:50or
06:51without rory gallagher's provenance but the fact that it that it is his um i see why he chose it
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