This guitar landed in my inbox in an email overnight along with 80 others, yes 80 emails overnight, all NAMM news… I’m not sure if this is actually showing at NAMM or not but it is called the Fender Custom Shop Pine Cone Stratocaster and was created by Fender Custom Shop’s Senior Master Builder Yuriy Shishkov.
This guitar is modelled after the antique “Pine Cone” Easter Egg made by Fabergé in 1900. It is an exclusive one-of-a-kind guitar and features 550 high-quality diamonds, 10 feet of 18 karat gold adorning a flawless single-piece maple body and exhibition grade birdseye maple neck.
“The body artwork design was created in a 3D format and projected onto the guitar before it was hand-carved to produce the sphere surface effect of an egg. If all the scales on the guitar were extended beyond the instrument’s contour, they would create a perfect “egg” shape. The blue hand-stained “multi-composite” finish was specially invented for this particular guitar to recreate the “egg-like” appearance.”
“The guitar’s hardware was hand engraved; the knobs and switch tip were custom designed at the Fender Custom Shop and crowned with diamonds. In addition, the “Fender” logo on the headstock is made of 2mm gold plated solid silver; the fingerboard comes complete with inlaid diamonds and 10 feet of 18 karat gold ribbon wire inlay, and is finished with a gold-plated nut.”
The “Pine Cone” Stratocaster will be accommodated with an authentic limited edition Fabergé Easter “Pine Cone Egg”. Both the guitar and the egg have matching serial numbers (0074). Like the original antique egg, it has a surprise miniature “Elephant” inside. In addition, the egg has been signed by Maison Tatiana Fabergé.
The guitar comes complete with a custom carrying case, a hand-tooled blue leather matching design custom strap and lighted display case.
For more information, go to http://www.fendercustomshop.com/features/pine-cone-stratocaster/.