They occasionally make pretty cool things, but still: Lexus has a bit of an old-fashioned image. And so the Schoolyard rule applies: if you’re not that cool yourself, make sure you make friends with the coolest guy in the schoolyard. Lexus has now also applied that tactic. They have entered into a collaboration with Fender, who has always made the coolest guitars in the music world. If rock ‘n’ roll geniuses like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Nile Rodgers, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and Prince (okay, that wasn’t really a Fender, but a Telecaster) play your guitars, you can make that claim. make it. And then we name just a few. Anyway, that’s what Lexus wanted.
Lexus and Fender make special Stratocaster
And so Lexus and Fender sat down to see what they could do for each other. The result: the Fender Custom Shop Lexus LC Stratocaster. What makes this guitar a Lexus? Well, first of all, the pickguard is made of carbon fiber; Fender never uses that, but Lexus likes it. The volume and tone knobs will also be recognized by Lexus drivers as the stuff they use to crank up their Mark Levinson audio. But the most important thing is the color. There is something very special about that.
What makes that color so special?
The color is called Structural Blue and was used in 2018 to decorate a limited number of 200 Lexus LC 500s. The special thing is that not one pigment blue can be found in the paint. It consists solely of pigments that filter out all other colors, and only let the blue through. So a kind of black: a color that doesn’t really exist, but eats up all other colors. So the result is probably the purest blue you will ever encounter. It is also the color of the morpho butterfly, which is often temporarily invisible in flight, as its wings reflect nothing but blue.
Mind blown!
We had that a bit too. And because we are not only car enthusiasts, but also like to play a joke on the guitar, we were interested. Unfortunately, it’s an expensive joke. The device is made in an edition of 100, so the collector’s item-value of the thing is already guaranteed. And it costs about 6,000 euros. You don’t buy a new Lexus for that, but for a guitar it’s a lot of money…
Guitar nerd?
Okay, let’s get to the specs. The Stratocaster that Lexus and Fender made was built by master builder Ron Thorn. The neck is made of 3A flamed maple, the elements are Noiseless Single Coils of the last generation. The fretboard, fingerboard, is made of Richlite, a material that Fender, like carbon fiber, has never used before.
Guitars and cars?
The seasoned Fender player knows, of course, that the bond between Fender and the car industry goes back to the company’s inception. Since Fender didn’t have its own paint shop, the guitars were often taken to auto paint shops to give them their color. Almost all the colors in which the guitars are still supplied today can be traced back to the car industry.
Colors such as Olympic White and Shell Pink (Buick), Fiesta Red, Sherwood Green and Inca Silver (Corvette), Sonic Blue (Oldsmobile), Burgundy Mist and Firemist Gold (Cadillac) can all be traced directly to car manufacturers. And Fender has done more with automakers. They have previously made a special Stratocaster with Saleen and Ford is also on the list. And so there are many more links between cars and guitars. If you want to know more about it, just let me know. Let’s make something beautiful out of that.
They occasionally make pretty cool things, but still: Lexus has a bit of an old-fashioned image. And so the Schoolyard rule applies: if you’re not that cool yourself, make sure you make friends with the coolest guy in the schoolyard. Lexus has now also applied that tactic. They have entered into a collaboration with Fender, who has always made the coolest guitars in the music world. If rock ‘n’ roll geniuses like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Nile Rodgers, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and Prince (okay, that wasn’t really a Fender, but a Telecaster) play your guitars, you can make that claim. make it. And then we name just a few. Anyway, that’s what Lexus wanted.
Lexus and Fender make special Stratocaster
And so Lexus and Fender sat down to see what they could do for each other. The result: the Fender Custom Shop Lexus LC Stratocaster. What makes this guitar a Lexus? Well, first of all, the pickguard is made of carbon fiber; Fender never uses that, but Lexus likes it. The volume and tone knobs will also be recognized by Lexus drivers as the stuff they use to crank up their Mark Levinson audio. But the most important thing is the color. There is something very special about that.
What makes that color so special?
The color is called Structural Blue and was used in 2018 to decorate a limited number of 200 Lexus LC 500s. The special thing is that not one pigment blue can be found in the paint. It consists solely of pigments that filter out all other colors, and only let the blue through. So a kind of black: a color that doesn’t really exist, but eats up all other colors. So the result is probably the purest blue you will ever encounter. It is also the color of the morpho butterfly, which is often temporarily invisible in flight, as its wings reflect nothing but blue.
Mind blown!
We had that a bit too. And because we are not only car enthusiasts, but also like to play a joke on the guitar, we were interested. Unfortunately, it’s an expensive joke. The device is made in an edition of 100, so the collector’s item-value of the thing is already guaranteed. And it costs about 6,000 euros. You don’t buy a new Lexus for that, but for a guitar it’s a lot of money…
Guitar nerd?
Okay, let’s get to the specs. The Stratocaster that Lexus and Fender made was built by master builder Ron Thorn. The neck is made of 3A flamed maple, the elements are Noiseless Single Coils of the last generation. The fretboard, fingerboard, is made of Richlite, a material that Fender, like carbon fiber, has never used before.
Guitars and cars?
The seasoned Fender player knows, of course, that the bond between Fender and the car industry goes back to the company’s inception. Since Fender didn’t have its own paint shop, the guitars were often taken to auto paint shops to give them their color. Almost all the colors in which the guitars are still supplied today can be traced back to the car industry.
Colors such as Olympic White and Shell Pink (Buick), Fiesta Red, Sherwood Green and Inca Silver (Corvette), Sonic Blue (Oldsmobile), Burgundy Mist and Firemist Gold (Cadillac) can all be traced directly to car manufacturers. And Fender has done more with automakers. They have previously made a special Stratocaster with Saleen and Ford is also on the list. And so there are many more links between cars and guitars. If you want to know more about it, just let me know. Let’s make something beautiful out of that.
They occasionally make pretty cool things, but still: Lexus has a bit of an old-fashioned image. And so the Schoolyard rule applies: if you’re not that cool yourself, make sure you make friends with the coolest guy in the schoolyard. Lexus has now also applied that tactic. They have entered into a collaboration with Fender, who has always made the coolest guitars in the music world. If rock ‘n’ roll geniuses like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Nile Rodgers, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and Prince (okay, that wasn’t really a Fender, but a Telecaster) play your guitars, you can make that claim. make it. And then we name just a few. Anyway, that’s what Lexus wanted.
Lexus and Fender make special Stratocaster
And so Lexus and Fender sat down to see what they could do for each other. The result: the Fender Custom Shop Lexus LC Stratocaster. What makes this guitar a Lexus? Well, first of all, the pickguard is made of carbon fiber; Fender never uses that, but Lexus likes it. The volume and tone knobs will also be recognized by Lexus drivers as the stuff they use to crank up their Mark Levinson audio. But the most important thing is the color. There is something very special about that.
What makes that color so special?
The color is called Structural Blue and was used in 2018 to decorate a limited number of 200 Lexus LC 500s. The special thing is that not one pigment blue can be found in the paint. It consists solely of pigments that filter out all other colors, and only let the blue through. So a kind of black: a color that doesn’t really exist, but eats up all other colors. So the result is probably the purest blue you will ever encounter. It is also the color of the morpho butterfly, which is often temporarily invisible in flight, as its wings reflect nothing but blue.
Mind blown!
We had that a bit too. And because we are not only car enthusiasts, but also like to play a joke on the guitar, we were interested. Unfortunately, it’s an expensive joke. The device is made in an edition of 100, so the collector’s item-value of the thing is already guaranteed. And it costs about 6,000 euros. You don’t buy a new Lexus for that, but for a guitar it’s a lot of money…
Guitar nerd?
Okay, let’s get to the specs. The Stratocaster that Lexus and Fender made was built by master builder Ron Thorn. The neck is made of 3A flamed maple, the elements are Noiseless Single Coils of the last generation. The fretboard, fingerboard, is made of Richlite, a material that Fender, like carbon fiber, has never used before.
Guitars and cars?
The seasoned Fender player knows, of course, that the bond between Fender and the car industry goes back to the company’s inception. Since Fender didn’t have its own paint shop, the guitars were often taken to auto paint shops to give them their color. Almost all the colors in which the guitars are still supplied today can be traced back to the car industry.
Colors such as Olympic White and Shell Pink (Buick), Fiesta Red, Sherwood Green and Inca Silver (Corvette), Sonic Blue (Oldsmobile), Burgundy Mist and Firemist Gold (Cadillac) can all be traced directly to car manufacturers. And Fender has done more with automakers. They have previously made a special Stratocaster with Saleen and Ford is also on the list. And so there are many more links between cars and guitars. If you want to know more about it, just let me know. Let’s make something beautiful out of that.
They occasionally make pretty cool things, but still: Lexus has a bit of an old-fashioned image. And so the Schoolyard rule applies: if you’re not that cool yourself, make sure you make friends with the coolest guy in the schoolyard. Lexus has now also applied that tactic. They have entered into a collaboration with Fender, who has always made the coolest guitars in the music world. If rock ‘n’ roll geniuses like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Nile Rodgers, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and Prince (okay, that wasn’t really a Fender, but a Telecaster) play your guitars, you can make that claim. make it. And then we name just a few. Anyway, that’s what Lexus wanted.
Lexus and Fender make special Stratocaster
And so Lexus and Fender sat down to see what they could do for each other. The result: the Fender Custom Shop Lexus LC Stratocaster. What makes this guitar a Lexus? Well, first of all, the pickguard is made of carbon fiber; Fender never uses that, but Lexus likes it. The volume and tone knobs will also be recognized by Lexus drivers as the stuff they use to crank up their Mark Levinson audio. But the most important thing is the color. There is something very special about that.
What makes that color so special?
The color is called Structural Blue and was used in 2018 to decorate a limited number of 200 Lexus LC 500s. The special thing is that not one pigment blue can be found in the paint. It consists solely of pigments that filter out all other colors, and only let the blue through. So a kind of black: a color that doesn’t really exist, but eats up all other colors. So the result is probably the purest blue you will ever encounter. It is also the color of the morpho butterfly, which is often temporarily invisible in flight, as its wings reflect nothing but blue.
Mind blown!
We had that a bit too. And because we are not only car enthusiasts, but also like to play a joke on the guitar, we were interested. Unfortunately, it’s an expensive joke. The device is made in an edition of 100, so the collector’s item-value of the thing is already guaranteed. And it costs about 6,000 euros. You don’t buy a new Lexus for that, but for a guitar it’s a lot of money…
Guitar nerd?
Okay, let’s get to the specs. The Stratocaster that Lexus and Fender made was built by master builder Ron Thorn. The neck is made of 3A flamed maple, the elements are Noiseless Single Coils of the last generation. The fretboard, fingerboard, is made of Richlite, a material that Fender, like carbon fiber, has never used before.
Guitars and cars?
The seasoned Fender player knows, of course, that the bond between Fender and the car industry goes back to the company’s inception. Since Fender didn’t have its own paint shop, the guitars were often taken to auto paint shops to give them their color. Almost all the colors in which the guitars are still supplied today can be traced back to the car industry.
Colors such as Olympic White and Shell Pink (Buick), Fiesta Red, Sherwood Green and Inca Silver (Corvette), Sonic Blue (Oldsmobile), Burgundy Mist and Firemist Gold (Cadillac) can all be traced directly to car manufacturers. And Fender has done more with automakers. They have previously made a special Stratocaster with Saleen and Ford is also on the list. And so there are many more links between cars and guitars. If you want to know more about it, just let me know. Let’s make something beautiful out of that.