1957 Fender Stratocaster one step removed from Elvis 00867 SOLD!

This one owner fifty-one year old Strat belonged to a member of Elvis's group in the 1964 movie Viva Las Vegas. This "dream" guitar weighs 7.90 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body, contoured on back and lower bass bout and finished in two-tone Sunburst (black to yellow). One-piece fretted maple neck with a wonderfully huge "transition" late '56/early '57 soft "V" profile. Maple fretboard, almost unplayed with 21 frets, and black dot position markers. Three white 'bakelite'-covered black-bottom single-coil pickups with staggered polepieces and nicely balanced outputs of 5.58k, 5.59k and 5.40k. This fifty-one year-old guitar is totally original and is most certainly one of the cleanest "Fifty-Seven" Tremolo Stratocasters that we have ever seen, let alone owned! Housed in its original Fender "Tweed" case with brown leather ends and red plush lining (8.75).

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• 1957
• Fender
• Stratocaster

[full0armor4]

how do you guarantee the originality?

[frettedamericana]

@full0armor4 through lots of research and experience

[frettedamericana]

@full0armor4 through lots of research and experience - go to our website to check us out.

[gtnick314]

the fret markers are alive!

[HopHeadGrady]

Why put it through that dinky marhsall. It needs a Twin... lol Hippy. :P

[ghettocumquats]

when i first saw the black fingernails i thought he was gonna play metal...thank god he knows what strats were made for

[bluzelovr]

Drool, drool!! The guitars nice too ;)

[SuperGabifernandes]

She's very beauty. *-*

[egotripband]

does fender still make walnut body strats?

[MrMalq]

He is a good guitar player but please to fuck stop making every guitar you play sound the same. It's a fucking 57 strat you prick

[allaboutdatGDA]

such amazing fluidity. like the rivers of mercury, my only child.

[MrAssbaron]

@frettedamericana Fuck...Phil, you are one bad ass guitarist. Giasou re karabouzoukli. Amazing, Fluid, fast, ferocious and fantastic..

[pipiapenkak]

is the body finish nitrocellulose?

[blastofo]

leo fender got it right the first time. 50s strats are the best. love the two tone bursts, maple fretboard, kluson style tuners, the sound of the pickups...

[soggyblunts420]

play master of puppets

[originalMOON3R]

i had this cheap strat lookin guitar that the tone knobs work only for the neck pick up. i used to roll off the tone n switch it back forth for that wavy wawawa sound then it just quit on me. i need a real strat

[huyiy]

@HeavyEspMetal its Phil X who cares right???

[blakmagik4]

You with a strat in your hand is a special sound. I LOVE your vids. And this novice has learned a trick or two.

[gsagula2]

Have you played in a Fender Jesus before? .... it is amazing... you should try... it is vintage too!

[tehorix789]

That guitar has incredible honk and bark.

[elitemathlete]

BUT it was banana flavored... 

[1gerryb]

I to own a 57 strat and there is no other guitars that can make that sound .I've had mine for 44 years and would not ever part with it .To all you guys that play music , you should own one they all sound great. GB.

[andypandyhu]

my strat looks just the same, but its from 1991 and elvis never looked at it lol well it does for me lol :-P

[HarryAndAGuitar]

@00macaria He's using a Marshall Studio 15

[joakorush2112]

@DannyMullenBjj wow dude i see you know nothing about music

[kenco117]

@DannyMullenBjj Smoke on the Water =]

[DannyMullenBjj]

What is the riff being played at 2:07?

[yngwieisking]

@HeavyEspMetal Probably people who care about not looking like a douchebag.

[austin7956]

woa woa woa!!!!! phil should NOT be sitting down