This 1983 Fender Stratocaster was made by the Fender Custom shop and was given to Marr in 1988. It eventually became one of his main guitars and the one he would use extensively with The The, and occasionally with Electronic.
My main guitar with the The is a standard gun-metal blue Fender Stratocaster. It’s an absolutely fantastic guitar with a really beautiful zing to it. The new Fenders are really good.
Johnny Marr, Guitar Player magazine, January 1990
The guitar is unique in the way that it has a very rare finish, called petrol blue. Based on the information one can find online, this is definitely not a standard Fender color, so this was probably the case of someone in the Custom Shop doing a one-off.
Second, Marr installed the stock plastic volume knob with one from a Fender Precision Bass – the same way he did on his 1962 Fender Stratocaster which he played around this same period.
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