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Strato 90

The late Eighties: loud amps, long solos and a guitar built to keep up. Maple neck and fretboard, a 16-inch radius, jumbo frets — born to move fast, and it never pretended otherwise.

  • Gesso
    Strato 90 — Gesso
  • Ginestra
    Strato 90 — Ginestra
  • Ciclamino
    Strato 90 — Ciclamino
  • Rosso corsa
    Strato 90 — Rosso corsa
  • Abisso
    Strato 90 — Abisso

5 finishes available — and this is not a closed list

What sets it apart

  • Maple on both sides

    Neck and fretboard in the same wood, like the super strats of the time. Maple is bright and quick: it gives back the attack of the note instead of softening it, and that is half the reason that era sounded the way it did.

  • 16-inch radius, jumbo frets

    Sixteen inches of radius and tall frets: strings bend without the note choking out, and the finger presses the string onto the fret instead of onto the wood. It is the pair of measurements that makes fast playing comfortable, and the pair that era imposed on everyone.

  • Dual-action rod and two carbon bars

    The truss rod corrects in both directions, and the two carbon fibre bars hold the neck still. A thin maple neck is the one that feels the change of seasons most: these are the two things that make it stable without making it thicker.

The whole of it

Strato 90, headstock to bridge.

Strato 90 — De Gattis guitar, the whole instrument

Specifications

How I designed it.

They do not change: they are what makes this a Strato 90.

Measurements

Scale length
648 mm (25.5 inches)
Fretboard radius
16″
Neck width, twenty-two frets
43 mm at the nut · 56.5 mm at the last fret (1.69 · 2.22 inches)
Neck width, twenty-four frets
43 mm at the nut · 57.2 mm at the last fret (1.69 · 2.25 inches)

Body

Body
Alder
Body finish
Gloss polyurethane

Neck

Neck
Maple
Fretboard
Maple
Truss rod
Dual action, with two carbon fibre rods

Frets and markers

Frets
Jumbo

Bridge and tuners

Bridge
Gotoh
Tuners
Gotoh
Nut
Gotoh

Pickups and controls

Pots
500 kΩ
Electronics
De Gattis Custom Circuitry

Included

Strings
Ernie Ball 09-042
Case
ABS hard caseIncluded
Certificate of authenticity
Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
Left-handed
On request

The switch

What it sounds like, in every position.

As standard

  • Neck

  • Neck + middle

  • Middle

  • Middle + bridge

  • Bridge

Two ways

Order it as it is, or make it yours.

In the Custom Shop this model is already selected: from there you change woods, neck, hardware, electronics — and at the end a luthier answers you, not a form.

Customise this model