The Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster is a replica of the guitar used by Swedish heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

Yngwie Johann Malmsteen is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Malmsteen became known for his neo-classical playing approach in heavy metal music which became a new musical style in the early 1980s.- Early life :...

, made by Fender. It came originally with two DiMarzio

DiMarzio

DiMarzio, Inc. is an United States manufacturer best known for its revolutionary direct-replacement guitar pickups. The company also produces miscellaneous guitar accessories, such as cables, straps and hardware.DiMarzio became known for its Super Distortion model, which was the first after...

 YJM single-coil pickups (neck/middle) paired with a DiMarzio

DiMarzio

DiMarzio, Inc. is an United States manufacturer best known for its revolutionary direct-replacement guitar pickups. The company also produces miscellaneous guitar accessories, such as cables, straps and hardware.DiMarzio became known for its Super Distortion model, which was the first after...

 HS-3 Stack humbucking pickup (bridge). This Fender Artist signature guitar now features three Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan is a company that is best known for manufacturing of guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. The company was founded in 1976 by guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and his then-wife Cathy Carter Duncan in Goleta, California, USA...

  STK-S10 YJM Fury single-coils and sports a deeper scalloped fingerboard with 21 Dunlop 6000 super-sized frets, late-'60s large headstock, brass nut, 3-ply white/black/white pickguard, Bullet truss rod nut and machine screw neck mounting inserts.

The early Malmsteen Strats (produced before the change to the actual "large headstock" models in 1998) featured an American 2-point synchronized tremolo, small headstock with "spaghetti"-style decal, Gotoh/Kluson tuners and a hardened-steel EasyGlider string tree, a Fender "DeltaTone" single-coil pickup in the middle position and a TBX tone control for the middle/bridge pickups.

Specifications

• Body: Alder
• Neck: Maple, Modern "C" Shape
• Fingerboard: Scalloped Rosewood or Scalloped Maple; 9.5" radius (241 mm)
• Frets: 21 Dunlop 6000 Super-Jumbo Frets
• Pickups: Seymour Duncan
  Seymour Duncan
  Seymour Duncan is a company that is best known for manufacturing of guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. The company was founded in 1976 by guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and his then-wife Cathy Carter Duncan in Goleta, California, USA...
  
   STK-S10 YJM Fury Single-Coil Pickups (Neck, Middle, Bridge)
• Controls: Master volume, Tone. 1 No-load tone control (neck pickup), Tone. 2 No-load tone control (middle & bridge pickups)
• Pickup Switching: 3-Way Pickup Blade Switch
• Bridge: American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
• Tuning Pegs: Fender Schaller Vintage "F" Style Tuning Machines
• Hardware: Chrome
• Pickguard: 3-ply White/Black/White
• Unique Features: Special Refined '60s Shape Neck with Large Late '60s Styled Headstock, Machine Screw Neck Mounting Inserts, Bullet Truss Rod Nut, Brass Nut, Deeper Scalloped Fingerboard, Dunlop 6000 Jumbo Fretwire, Aged Plastic Parts, Aged Pickup Covers

Custom Shop Model

On November 11, 2008, the Fender Custom Shop

Fender Custom Shop

The Fender Custom Shop is a division of Fender Musical Instruments, housed within their headquarters complex in Corona, Riverside County, California. The Fender Custom Shop primarily exists to compete with smaller companies and independent luthiers that, in turn, build products reminiscent of those...

 released the Yngwie Malmsteen "Play Loud" Stratocaster, a painstaking copy of Yngwie's battered 1971 Strat

Duck (guitar)

The Duck guitar is the name given to Yngwie Malmsteen's 1971 cream colored Fender Stratocaster guitar. It is known as the Duck owing to a Donald Duck sticker pasted on to the headstock of the instrument.-Overview of the Duck Guitar:...

, which was used as the model in the creation of this edition. Each of the guitars in the edition was hand-built by Senior Master Builder John Cruz, featuring a heavily "reliced" Vintage White finish and the hand-written "Play Loud" sticker on the upper horn. As on the original, the neck is lightly scalloped. Other specifications include:

• Pickups: 2 DiMarzio HS-3 Stack Humbuckers (neck, bridge) or now to be replaced with Seymour Duncan
  Seymour Duncan
  Seymour Duncan is a company that is best known for manufacturing of guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. The company was founded in 1976 by guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and his then-wife Cathy Carter Duncan in Goleta, California, USA...
  
  STK-S10 YJM Furys (neck, bridge), Fender Standard Vintage 1970's Single-Coil (middle).
• Body: Alder.
• Neck: Maple.
• Fingerboard: Maple, Lightly Scalloped 7¼" Radius.
• Number of Frets: 21.
• Scale Length: 25 ½" inches.
• Bolt On Neck.
• Dunlop 6000 Super-Jumbo Frets.
• Brass Nut.
• New Bullet Truss Rod Nut.
• Large '70s Styled Headstock Shape.
• Original Body Shape with "Original Contour Body" Decal on Headstock.
• American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo.
• Fender/Schaller Vintage "F" Style Tuning Machines.
• Chrome Hardware.
• 3-Ply White/Black/White Pickguard.
• Aged Knobs and Pickup Covers.
• Master Volume Control.
• No-Load Tone Controls (Neck and Middle Pickups).
• 3-Way Position Pickup Selector Switch.