Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Fender: Kenny Wayne Shepherd signature


Lately, I notice Fender's ardent inclusion of signature models with a vintage-modern fusion. You've read about the Billy Corgan model, the latest addition here is the Kenny Wayne Shepherd strat.
Cult followers of KWS would find this racing stripe finish rather sacriligious but be informed that it's only one of the several colour options offered by the manufacturer.
The vintage take:
  • Vintage-type tuners
  • 6-point sync vibrato bridge
  • 21 frets

The modern take:

  • Graph Tech string saddles (KWS has a set of the black String Savers in his original guitar but the manufacturer decides to keep the hue flushed with the bridge on this one)
  • 12" radius

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is a sharp looking guitar. I like the way the saddles complete the look

subversion.sg said...

i seriously think Fender should include the Graphtech units in more of their guitars.