The Fender Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster® Electric Guitar, Olympic White is a Ritchie Blackmore signature guitar based on Blackmore’s favourite ’70s model.
Ritchie Blackmore found fame for his innovative blend of classical and blues styles, as well as his songwriting and playing in bands such as Deep Purple and Rainbow. His signature Fender Stratocaster features an alder body with a maple neck in a 'U'-shaped profile. The neck is topped by a rosewood fingerboard with 21 graduated scalloped frets.
The Blackmore Strat's sounds come from a pair of Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Flat pickups, with the pickup in the middle position being a 'dummy' that is screwed down to the guitar and not is use, just like on Ritchie's 1970s original.
The vintage '70s look of the Blackmore Stratocaster is complete with its ’70s-style “F” tuners and '70s style decal. The Blackmore Stratocaster comes with a deluxe gigbag.
The main features of the Fender Fender Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster® Electric Guitar, Olympic White include:
deep purple at my home now , yeees ! ritchie the best ! nice guitar, amazing sound with my vox amp ! Blackmore is without question in the top five of all rock guitarists in rock n roll history. Im a huge fan of Purple and Rainbow .The guitar is awesome but not perfect. The sound is a 10! The seymour duncan pickups are very hot and I get great harminics and a true blackmore tone.
Excellent craftmanship, very nice scalloped fretboard. I dont really like the 7.25" radius, feels like the strings skips very easy, but its vintage style so it comes with the feeling.
Overall a very nice guitar that I will keep with me for the rest of my life.
The item is perfect and it arrived more quickly than expectation because MUSICSTORE sent me one pcs before scheduled data and was a very nice feeling and the person/agent from MUSICSTROE was super nice and friendly ! I will keep on touch with MUSICSTORE in the future ! I wish you guys all the best ! Kind regard Mihai - Michael
I hesitated because I know Ritchie used to destroy Mexican Strats in concert so it was weird he would have a signature made in Mexico. But I fell for it and I am really 100% happy. This was the fastest MS delivery ever (the next day to Belgium!!!), it arrived in perfect condition. The guitar itself is gorgeous, no need to dwell on existing reviews. I love the double single coils and dummy and the scallopped FB is really a first for me, so easy to play. It comes with flush mounted locks all included in the package. It seems MS also set it up because it came ... in tune with perfect action etc. All in all a top quality/price ratio and my advice is: Ritchie fan or not, this is a Strat that rivals US models I have had so BUY IT. Totally in love with it and I can't put it down. Happy customer, thanks MS.