Fender’s Custom Shop Master Builder Yuriy Shishkov has created some spectacular one-off guitars in his tenure at the famed American guitar company. His newest creation, the Masterbuilt Prestige Studioliner, not only celebrates the Custom Shop’s 30th birthday, but also offers a design that takes its cues from a 1930s Kodak camera.
The Stratocaster-shaped Presitge Studioliner is inspired by a 1936 Kodak Bantam Special camera that was originally designed by Walter Dorwin Teague. The sale of the custom guitar also comes with an example of the vintage camera.
Shishkov gave the specially made Strat a black, silver, and red finish. Oh, and if features 1,000 diamonds comprised of 423 on the front, 462 in the back, and 115 found elsewhere on the guitar along with a small cluster of rubies.
Only the best materials went into the Prestige Studioliner, including exhibition-grade wood, Guilloche Enamel inlays, silver, and a number of custom electronics to offer a sound as beautiful as the guitar itself.
The Masterbuilt Prestige Studioliner has been valued at $450,000.