Fender Releases Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Stratocaster
Monday, December 1st, 2008
On “Black Friday”, November 28th, Fender’s Custom Shop released the Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Stratocaster guitar. It’s an exact replica of Yngwie’s original Olympic White 1971 “Play Loud” Fender Stratocaster. “Play Loud” refers to a sticker on the upper horn of the Strat and if you’re wondering the tribute guitar has it too, along with every other scratch, dent and bite mark on the guitar.
Yngwie bought his original Strat in 1978 and performed the delicate “scalloping” of the neck himself. Scalloping refers to routing out the fret board between the frets to help facilitate string bending and other virtuoso guitar playing techniques like finger-tapping.