As reported on this Fender News post, the David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster is being released September 22, 2008.

It will be a Custom Shop production available in NOS (new old stock) and Relic styles.

David Gilmour

Gilmour Signature Stratocaster

Summer NAMM 2008 has just wrapped up in Nashville, Tennessee and here are some of our favorite from the show.  There were no real scoops from the show as a lot of the news trickled out leading up to the show.

Fender announcements

• Classic Player Jaguar Special and Classic Player Jaguar Special HH
• Classic Player Jazzmaster Special
• Billy Corgan Stratocaster
• Jaguar Bass
• 65 Princeton Reverb Guitar Amp

Gibson announcements

• Robot Les Paul Studio, Robot SG

If you are a Jaguar or Jazzmaster fan this is great news for you.  Affordable Mexican models probably right down at your local guitar shops soon. You no longer have any excuses as to why you can’t find a Mustang, Jaguar, or Jazzmaster any more.  But don’t even ask about jag-stangs… lol

The Billy Corgan Fender Stratocaster that we started talking about back in January is now on Fender.com as part of their Artist Series. [url]  We’re assuming this guitar will get the grand unveiling at the upcoming Summer NAMM that is coming up June 20-22 in Nashville.

Not a whole lot of surprises up to this point.  The most interesting specs are as follows:

• colors: (805) Olympic White and (806) Flat Black (satin nitro)
• jumbo frets on Modern “C” Shape neck with large ’70s style headstock (satin poly)
• 1 Special Design Dimarzio® Billy Corgan Single-Spaced Humbucking Pickup (Neck)
• 1 Dimarzio® Chopper™ Pickup (Middle)
• 1 Special Design Dimarzio® Billy Corgan Single-Spaced Humbucking Pickup (Bridge)
• original body shape (?? not sure how it differs from standard stratocaster)

The pickup switching has some non-standard settings that benefit from the single-spaced Dimarzio humbuckers.

• Position 1. Full Humbucking Bridge Pickup
• Position 2. Inside Coil of Bridge Pickup and Full Humbucking Middle Pickup
• Position 3. Full Humbucking Middle Pickup
• Position 4. Full Humbucking Middle Pickup and Outside Coil of Neck Pickup
• Position 5. Full Humbucking Neck Pickup

Update: Interstate music is showing a list price of 1999.99 for this new strat.  Which would mean a retail price around 1449.99.  What are your opinions on this price point?

Update 2: Sam Ash is showing a list price of 1599.99 with a retail of 1199.99.