Name: SOLD - Fender Stratocaster Eric Johnson 2006 Candy Apple Red
Brand: Mahar's Vintage Guitars
SKU: zG-0526
Availability: OutOfStock

No sales tax for customers outside California.

We bring you a super clean Eric Johnson Strat from the second year of production of this model. Looks so great in the lustrous Candy Apple Red!

The guitar is 100% original, right down to the bridge cover. Included is the original Fender case in white.

The guitar was obviously played very little. Frets are nearly new and the guitar shows few signs of use.

From a 2006 review of the model:

The Eric Johnson Stratocaster provides a marriage of vintage tone, modern player needs, and quality components. Guitarists looking for a new, no-compromise, USA-made Strat that taps into some of that fabled pre-CBS era magic, while still offering a modern feel, should love this guitar. Though we have some concerns about manufacturing consistency across the samples we played, we were extremely impressed with this instrument’s tone; possibly the finest sounding production Strat that Fender has ever made. We can offer further endorsement by speaking with our wallets – after all the testing was finished, we happily ordered one for ourselves.

Features

The Eric Johnson Stratocaster has a two-piece, deep contoured, ’57 style lightweight alder body available in either Black, Candy Apple Red, White Blond, or Eric’s famous 2-Color Sunburst finish. All finishes are comprised of a very thin nitrocellulose lacquer to allow for the greatest possible resonance and tone.

The guitar has a one-piece quarter-sawn maple neck with a 12” radius and sports a unique compound neck shape beginning with a soft “V” shape at the first fret to a wider “C” shape at the neck joint. The deeper neck carve at the first frets is ideal for chord shapes while the thinner, wider neck carve in the upper register is ideal for fast soloing. The neck is finished with vintage tinted nitrocellulose lacquer and fitted with 21 highly polished medium jumbo frets.

The pickups are three special design Custom Shop Eric Johnson models, which consist of a ’54 style model with oversized Alnico 3 magnets in the neck position, a ’63 style model with Alnico 3 magnets in the middle position (which is reverse-wound for hum cancellation in the two and four positions on the five-way pickup selector switch), and an Alnico 5 model in the bridge position which is slightly over-wound to provide hotter output without sacrificing top end response.

The guitar has typical Strat volume and tone controls, with the exception that the wiring of the tone controls allow the neck and bridge pickups each have their own dedicated tone control, while the middle pickup is not affected by either. The guitar utilizes a standard five-position switch for pickup selectio, and the tremolo system is an American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo with the “ash tray” bridge cover. The tremolo block is painted silver with ’57 style string recesses, and there is no paint between the base plate and the block. The guitar comes installed with five tremolo springs and no tremolo cover (there are no tremolo cover holes drilled on the body).

The tuning machines are height-staggered Fender/Gotoh vintage style models. There is no string tree on the headstock. All hardware is nickel/chrome. The pick-guard is the ’57 style single ply, eight-hole model, and comes in parchment color (an off-white).

Some of the other unique features of this guitar are the neck to headstock volute, which is extra smooth, and the special neck plate, which is engraved with EJ and a figure of a Kokopelli dancer. The guitar comes set-up with 0.010 gauge Fender Super 250R nickel-plated steel strings. Additionally, a deluxe blonde hard-shell case with black interior is included, along with a strap and cable.

The Eric Johnson Stratocaster provides a marriage of vintage tone, modern player needs, and quality components. Guitarists looking for a new, no-compromise, USA-made Strat that taps into some of that fabled pre-CBS era magic, while still offering a modern feel, should love this guitar. Though we have some concerns about manufacturing consistency across the samples we played, we were extremely impressed with this instrument’s tone; possibly the finest sounding production Strat that Fender has ever made. We can offer further endorsement by speaking with our wallets – after all the testing was finished, we happily ordered one for ourselves.

Features

The Eric Johnson Stratocaster has a two-piece, deep contoured, ’57 style lightweight alder body available in either Black, Candy Apple Red, White Blond, or Eric’s famous 2-Color Sunburst finish. All finishes are comprised of a very thin nitrocellulose lacquer to allow for the greatest possible resonance and tone.

The guitar has a one-piece quarter-sawn maple neck with a 12” radius and sports a unique compound neck shape beginning with a soft “V” shape at the first fret to a wider “C” shape at the neck joint. The deeper neck carve at the first frets is ideal for chord shapes while the thinner, wider neck carve in the upper register is ideal for fast soloing. The neck is finished with vintage tinted nitrocellulose lacquer and fitted with 21 highly polished medium jumbo frets.

The pickups are three special design Custom Shop Eric Johnson models, which consist of a ’54 style model with oversized Alnico 3 magnets in the neck position, a ’63 style model with Alnico 3 magnets in the middle position (which is reverse-wound for hum cancellation in the two and four positions on the five-way pickup selector switch), and an Alnico 5 model in the bridge position which is slightly over-wound to provide hotter output without sacrificing top end response.

The guitar has typical Strat volume and tone controls, with the exception that the wiring of the tone controls allow the neck and bridge pickups each have their own dedicated tone control, while the middle pickup is not affected by either. The guitar utilizes a standard five-position switch for pickup selectio, and the tremolo system is an American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo with the “ash tray” bridge cover. The tremolo block is painted silver with ’57 style string recesses, and there is no paint between the base plate and the block. The guitar comes installed with five tremolo springs and no tremolo cover (there are no tremolo cover holes drilled on the body).

The tuning machines are height-staggered Fender/Gotoh vintage style models. There is no string tree on the headstock. All hardware is nickel/chrome. The pick-guard is the ’57 style single ply, eight-hole model, and comes in parchment color (an off-white).

Some of the other unique features of this guitar are the neck to headstock volute, which is extra smooth, and the special neck plate, which is engraved with EJ and a figure of a Kokopelli dancer. The guitar comes set-up with 0.010 gauge Fender Super 250R nickel-plated steel strings. Additionally, a deluxe blonde hard-shell case with black interior is included, along with a strap and cable.