As someone who has worked in an art gallery I can say that a handcrafted metal sculpture without any fancy jewels, or gold made by a relatively unknown individual (as opposed to Fender Instruments) can run ya $5,000. So when you add expensive jewels, gold, hand selected wood, beautiful symmetry and expert musical craftsmanship by a famous company the numbers start to multiply very fast. It makes sense to me just from the amount of labor, time and care involved. There is no question that if I were rich it would be worth it. It is breathtaking to look at in person I'm sure.
Peasants...go back to working in the fields and cleaning my castle!..i shall have one of my many lawyers purchase that musical bauble for me in the morning!
The wife has a bedazzler gluegun,bet we could do one cheaper.hahaha.Who would touch this thing worry about chunks of gems breaking off. No thanks give it to the museum. 😎
He did a Tele too . The Fender Custom Shop master builders request pickups to their spec to suit the instrument they're building. Personally I wouldn't rock this as it's hideous despite all the hard work !
I can't deny the time, work and craftsmanship that went into this guitar.... but I would put my money toward several Core PRS guitars. But i will say that the wood on the back of the guitar looks amazing. I would love to see a version of this guitar without the jewels.
Hey, you forgot to mention the free shipping. Very impressive. It’s completely over the top, but beautiful work. I particularly like the back and the belly cut, and how it shows the different layers of wood. But no, like you, I would be afraid to even touch it.
I do love me a hardtail Strat, & whatever it's really worth, this over the top overkilled, Fender custom shop bedazzled one, sure looks like it could be the most expensive hardtail Strat of all time!...This fancy guitar has a odd look, as the hard working hardtail Strat is a multi faced gem in its own right that deserves to be held up and admired in the light from all angles, and treasured, if not totally blinged out. While this ones not my particular cup of tea, It's awesome to know that its a paramount thing out there existing at the peak, for those of us worshipping all things hardtail Stratocaster...8)
Reminds me of the guitar that was on reverb a little while ago that supposedly Jimi Hendrix gave to his brother, they were trying to sell the guitar for 900,000 dollars, it was crazy
Are the strings made of gold an engraved with stuff? Is the wiring inside made of gold and engraved? Is the solder made of platinum and engraved as well? Are the screws made of silver?
love the pokemon references. forever Safire even when everyone I know had ruby. also I love everything youre doing with the channel. I usually watch it when im eating some food lol
I believe that strat actually costed around four hundred thousand just to make, so the asking price is high but not out of the realm of possibility. The money isnt in the stones but the jewelcrafting of such stones, its a masterpiece.
Wow, only $850K? Hell yeah I'll rock it, I'm sure I've got that much lying around...let me check in the couch cushions, I'm coming up juuuuust a bit short...lmfao!
wild west is a nice shop in Pasadena all high end brand new custom shop PRS, Gibson, and Fenders if you’re in the area definitely check it out super nice stuff
For those that know gemstones and know guitars I wouldn't be surprised if the emeralds cracked first time it's played from the vibration frequency of the guitar. Your not supposed to put emeralds into anything that vibrates any jeweler will tell u that cause they can easily fracture
Definitely not my style. Faberge inspired work is striking to be sure, but this is unplayable. Sublime wood though. Also not my speed. All the best sounding strats are beat to shit and worn in. The custom shop stuff is largely pointless fluff anyway. The best new factory strats are made by G&L. The best old strats are kinda like cars in an inverse way: doesn't matter how old they are, it's the mileage that makes them worth it. Get me one that's been passed around like tart, broken, stripped, slapped EMG pickups in it, discarded in the trunk of a car in south Texas, driven to Toronto over gravel roads, thrashed till the mosh pit was a graveyard, stolen, ripped out the EMGs for Sativa money, hung by the trem spings till they broke, handed to a toddler who chewed on the headstock, and finally rescued by a broke bluesman in New Orleans who restored it to life with bits and bobs laying around the farm and I'll take that one. Strats soak up the life around them for some reason, and they love attention. Pour enough life into one in a year, and they sing like nothing else. By contrast, Les Pauls are better out of the gate and not half so forgiving to abuse. This last point is by design. A broken headstock or twisted neck is not so easily repaired on a Gibson. They love to be loved, and abuse is rewarded with repairs only skilled artisans (a rapidly dying cadre of skills I might add) can manage. Leave a Les Paul in the trunk of a parked car in the Everglades, and the repair will be at the factory or some woodwright demanding payment in cash, favors, and the wedding ring of a dead bride left at the altar. THIS garish thing... this will take two centuries to sing.
Looks like one of those faberge eggs got sick on a guitar. The shrine is a cool touch though ... throw in the herimitage in st petersburg and i'll check with my bank whether they are in on the financing ^^
I went to the Hermitage a couple of weeks ago while touring around Europe and there IS a Peacock Watch in the Hermitage. It was built for Empress Catherine The Great. Maybe that is why the design looks like a peacock. Anyway, I don't think that guitar is playable with all those diamonds, rubis and emeralds. Imagine you're playing and some of those precious stones simply fall and disappear!
If I was a billionaire I'd definitely have this one in my house. However as a student that can barely afford food at the moment I'm not quite there yet.
It's a well done homage to The Hermitage. Just as gawdy, a memorable example of how going overboard can be borderline repulsive. Would not get close enough to it to rock it. Looks like it would smell musty like an old folks home.
You could buy a lot of vintage equipment for that kind of money, seems a little silly for one guitar. But if you hit Powerball, I guess this would be one of those " I have to spend it on something " purchases. 😁
I wouldn't buy that guitar even if they shave at least 3 zeros of the price. but on second thought, I'll be interested if it has a bridge forged out of a damascus meteorite steel. that sure is fancy
Liberace would love that shit! Does it come with a gem encrusted candelabra? Would sell it instead of rocking it! Im sure its nice but...nah! In soviet Russia, guitar plays you!! ;)
Bro that aint shit, did you see the other strat they made with faberge? That shit is nuts. Absolutely beautiful, personally i prefer the design of this one but the other is just so expensive something like just over a mil to make
Wow like an LP Strats are hard to make ugly but Mr Artiste here did it ,probably heavy as a rock. For that change i would fufill my dream of getting a couple pre cbs Strats and a few modern Strats in colours ive always wanted and a coulple more Gibson Les Pauls money much better spent if I had close to million.
Highest quality my butt! If those were best color & clarity it would be $8.5 million dollars. No sane person would waste those stones on a guitar. That says "more money than brains" to me.
Yep I'm gonna be that guy, it's still a Fender. Actually I really like Fender and I think Leo was a genius. But some of the stuff that push out of the custom shop? It's just to much.
"Old World European finish that creates a fairy-dust glow and fortifies the beast the way old rifle barrels were prepared to withstand drastic climate changes."
Saw this on the verb months ago, you should TOTALLY buy it for us, i mean cmon its free shipping, its a steal!
Lol
If Jimi Hendrix was still alive I recon he would snap it up. Not sure if he would burn it on stage though.
Exactly free shipping, it's a bargain!
Damn. I didn't think I could love this channel anymore, then you went ahead and dropped some gravity falls and Pokemon into this episode.
ikr, those pokemon edits killed me
Dipper & Mable & Gruncle Stan Agree. ;)
My friends and I would stare at this guitar all the time during study hall! Great to see you found this!
Robert Henry ....hahababa, hell yeah
sure its 850k but you didnt even mention the free shipping
This is how my niece decorates her smartphone... If only it were pink she would've loved it
Imagine stumbling across this guitar in the apocalyptic waste in 500 years. Legendary instrument
Im gonna bedazzle the hell outta my kids squire strat now
Squires are the worst.
@@Klang4evre says you
@@Klang4evre squire has stepped up there game pretty well over the past few years, same for epiphone
Riggatoni epiphone>Gibson
@@PillsBuryDoughBoy_ epiphone make want to barf gibson has treated me well
Trog, you gotta start doing pedal reviews. Your audience will explode.
ThingsAreLookingUp, Miku!
Definetly
That doesn't compare to the Drake Bell signature Squier Signed strat ;)
At least this is of good quality
It was a joke, he featured a guitar that was selling for 1 million and it was a joke sell
Lol
As someone who has worked in an art gallery I can say that a handcrafted metal sculpture without any fancy jewels, or gold made by a relatively unknown individual (as opposed to Fender Instruments) can run ya $5,000. So when you add expensive jewels, gold, hand selected wood, beautiful symmetry and expert musical craftsmanship by a famous company the numbers start to multiply very fast. It makes sense to me just from the amount of labor, time and care involved. There is no question that if I were rich it would be worth it. It is breathtaking to look at in person I'm sure.
Love the Pokemon showing up for the gems.
Peasants...go back to working in the fields and cleaning my castle!..i shall have one of my many lawyers purchase that musical bauble for me in the morning!
Love the Fender Friday! Way over the top strat!
The wife has a bedazzler gluegun,bet we could do one cheaper.hahaha.Who would touch this thing worry about chunks of gems breaking off. No thanks give it to the museum. 😎
He did a Tele too . The Fender Custom Shop master builders request pickups to their spec to suit the instrument they're building. Personally I wouldn't rock this as it's hideous despite all the hard work !
Its not hideous, Take all that bedazzled crap off and it's got some gorgeous wood! lol...
Ron Just Ron Good point lol 😄
@@shaunw9270 we must ALWAYS look for the silver lining lol.
I can't deny the time, work and craftsmanship that went into this guitar.... but I would put my money toward several Core PRS guitars. But i will say that the wood on the back of the guitar looks amazing. I would love to see a version of this guitar without the jewels.
This looks like something Liberace would have played, if he played guitar instead of piano! Just a little over the top for me!😀
Hey, you forgot to mention the free shipping. Very impressive. It’s completely over the top, but beautiful work. I particularly like the back and the belly cut, and how it shows the different layers of wood. But no, like you, I would be afraid to even touch it.
Not! But this was a very entertaining video! Nice job with your commentary. Thanks for putting these out.
Yup. And you can buy the sane thing on aliexpress for 400$ 😂
You can't but that is a hilarious joke.
Joel Middaugh
If you offer them an extra $100 im sure they will give it a go
and it will fall apart in 3 days
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Hey, free shipping. It's a masterpiece, and Yuri is a master, but yuck...it's doesn't grab me.
I love fenders and strats in particular but I'd be afraid to rock this one.
I do love me a hardtail Strat, & whatever it's really worth, this over the top overkilled, Fender custom shop bedazzled one, sure looks like it could be the most expensive hardtail Strat of all time!...This fancy guitar has a odd look, as the hard working hardtail Strat is a multi faced gem in its own right that deserves to be held up and admired in the light from all angles, and treasured, if not totally blinged out. While this ones not my particular cup of tea, It's awesome to know that its a paramount thing out there existing at the peak, for those of us worshipping all things hardtail Stratocaster...8)
billy gibbons said it best......"i wound't touch it with a ten foot pole".... :-)
Reminds me of the guitar that was on reverb a little while ago that supposedly Jimi Hendrix gave to his brother, they were trying to sell the guitar for 900,000 dollars, it was crazy
This is insane
Great quality content as always
Are the strings made of gold an engraved with stuff? Is the wiring inside made of gold and engraved? Is the solder made of platinum and engraved as well? Are the screws made of silver?
Only time I was upset was when you missed the perfect chance to use ho-oh for the gold inlay part. Other than that sweet vid I love them
The back of the neck is spectacular
I dig these fender fridays
Wow, thats crazy.
For that price you could have 94,445 copies of Pokémon ruby, sapphire, or emerald, or 31,481 copies of Pokémon diamond
Check out Ritter's royal line of bass guitars. Similarly out of this world:) Love the channel!
love the pokemon references. forever Safire even when everyone I know had ruby. also I love everything youre doing with the channel. I usually watch it when im eating some food lol
1:56 I thought Ho-Oh was going to appear in screen... Kinda disappointed.
.....i played that part like a thousand times
I believe that strat actually costed around four hundred thousand just to make, so the asking price is high but not out of the realm of possibility. The money isnt in the stones but the jewelcrafting of such stones, its a masterpiece.
You went far with those pokemon references
Wow, only $850K? Hell yeah I'll rock it, I'm sure I've got that much lying around...let me check in the couch cushions, I'm coming up juuuuust a bit short...lmfao!
wild west is a nice shop in Pasadena all high end brand new custom shop PRS, Gibson, and Fenders if you’re in the area definitely check it out super nice stuff
Fantastic Instrument, I'll take two please!
For those that know gemstones and know guitars I wouldn't be surprised if the emeralds cracked first time it's played from the vibration frequency of the guitar. Your not supposed to put emeralds into anything that vibrates any jeweler will tell u that cause they can easily fracture
Thanks for sharing. Interesting!
I had a seance last night and Liberace called: he wants his guitar back!
Forget the tone wood debate...........how do different gemstones affect the sound? lol. Thanks for the video and everyone have a great day.
Free shipping dude! What are you waiting for?
The Paul Manafort edition Stratocaster 😆
Imagine having to pawn that for your legal fees❕
Not gon lie you recommended speeding up your videos and lawd you were born to be heard at 1.5x regular speed.
All that bling and no Trem? That takes it down by about $800k in value for me.
Lmao just buy it and cut out a trem cavity
Hardtail for life
John Clark put a Floyd on it! 😂😂😂 jkjk
Trogly, if you enjoy crazy and cool Fenders, keep an eye out for the Japanese made ;)
Definitely not my style. Faberge inspired work is striking to be sure, but this is unplayable. Sublime wood though. Also not my speed. All the best sounding strats are beat to shit and worn in. The custom shop stuff is largely pointless fluff anyway. The best new factory strats are made by G&L. The best old strats are kinda like cars in an inverse way: doesn't matter how old they are, it's the mileage that makes them worth it. Get me one that's been passed around like tart, broken, stripped, slapped EMG pickups in it, discarded in the trunk of a car in south Texas, driven to Toronto over gravel roads, thrashed till the mosh pit was a graveyard, stolen, ripped out the EMGs for Sativa money, hung by the trem spings till they broke, handed to a toddler who chewed on the headstock, and finally rescued by a broke bluesman in New Orleans who restored it to life with bits and bobs laying around the farm and I'll take that one.
Strats soak up the life around them for some reason, and they love attention. Pour enough life into one in a year, and they sing like nothing else.
By contrast, Les Pauls are better out of the gate and not half so forgiving to abuse. This last point is by design. A broken headstock or twisted neck is not so easily repaired on a Gibson. They love to be loved, and abuse is rewarded with repairs only skilled artisans (a rapidly dying cadre of skills I might add) can manage. Leave a Les Paul in the trunk of a parked car in the Everglades, and the repair will be at the factory or some woodwright demanding payment in cash, favors, and the wedding ring of a dead bride left at the altar.
THIS garish thing... this will take two centuries to sing.
Its definitely a really fancy expensive piece of wall art for an extravagant person, for the most part.
love the image of Mabel from GF!
You could buy every year and model 50's Gibson Solid Electric in every color and still have half left easily.
Someone just handed you this guitar and you've got 30 seconds until they take it away again. What do you play? I'm thinking Blitzkrieg Bop.
Wow, that's even more than an original '58 Explorer would go for.
A mint 58 Explorer sold for over 1 million dollars few years ago
Looks like one of those faberge eggs got sick on a guitar. The shrine is a cool touch though ... throw in the herimitage in st petersburg and i'll check with my bank whether they are in on the financing ^^
I went to the Hermitage a couple of weeks ago while touring around Europe and there IS a Peacock Watch in the Hermitage. It was built for Empress Catherine The Great. Maybe that is why the design looks like a peacock. Anyway, I don't think that guitar is playable with all those diamonds, rubis and emeralds. Imagine you're playing and some of those precious stones simply fall and disappear!
Pretty sure they are under the finish, sealed in, and you can't feel them.
The pickups are standard customs
So how long do you think before post malone buys this guitar?
If I was a billionaire I'd definitely have this one in my house. However as a student that can barely afford food at the moment I'm not quite there yet.
Toimi you don’t need food bro, get some diamond and ruby encrusted wood.
Call up Post Malone. He'd buy that.
cool with all the edits
The green mineral is called malachite.
everytime i shred gems fly out to my audience, people will go to my giggs
It's a well done homage to The Hermitage. Just as gawdy, a memorable example of how going overboard can be borderline repulsive. Would not get close enough to it to rock it. Looks like it would smell musty like an old folks home.
an 850,000 guitar and no locking tuners? are they insane?
Glen Campbell would be proud! 🎶Like a rhinestone cowboy🎶
It’s the Porter Wagoner of guitars.
I'll take two.
I would Rock, that is regal.
Do a video on a vintage jazz master
If money wasn’t in question I’d love it
You could buy a lot of vintage equipment for that kind of money, seems a little silly for one guitar. But if you hit Powerball, I guess this would be one of those " I have to spend it on something " purchases. 😁
I wouldn't buy that guitar even if they shave at least 3 zeros of the price. but on second thought, I'll be interested if it has a bridge forged out of a damascus meteorite steel. that sure is fancy
Liberace would love that shit! Does it come with a gem encrusted candelabra? Would sell it instead of rocking it! Im sure its nice but...nah! In soviet Russia, guitar plays you!! ;)
Oh....my....god
Janice!!! lol
It's... Sparkly... So you know I'm cool with that... But no locking tuners or tremolo... I'll keep my HSS Deluxe... It's paid for.
$850000... but shipping's free.
I may well be wrong, but looks like it is trying to emulate a Fabergé Egg?
I would assume that would be scrap value of stones and $3000 for the guitar, and ALWAYS remember to wear a huge belt buckle while playing this
Bro that aint shit, did you see the other strat they made with faberge? That shit is nuts. Absolutely beautiful, personally i prefer the design of this one but the other is just so expensive something like just over a mil to make
Good God I'd be afraid to go near it,lol
6:05 is that a loose neck screw tho?
Likely a strap button
@@Trog I thought so at first. But why would there be one on that spot if there's one on the top horn already?
A true Liberacecaster!
Wow like an LP Strats are hard to make ugly but Mr Artiste here did it ,probably heavy as a rock. For that change i would fufill my dream of getting a couple pre cbs Strats and a few modern Strats in colours ive always wanted and a coulple more Gibson Les Pauls money much better spent if I had close to million.
cool i'll rock it
Hard to resist with free Shipping!
At least you get free shipping !
But you get free shipping
I would rock this! With my tophat and monacle 😂
The Rhinestone Cowboy feels a little inadequate now
Free shipping
Does come in a les paul version?
Here's the breakdown
Precious stones = $848500
Fender strat =$1500
That much for a Strat? lol
If I had the right man cave, that baby in a glass case on display. Oh ya! But I dont know that I would ever plug it in. I know what that leads to!
Highest quality my butt! If those were best color & clarity it would be $8.5 million dollars. No sane person would waste those stones on a guitar. That says "more money than brains" to me.
Yep I'm gonna be that guy, it's still a Fender. Actually I really like Fender and I think Leo was a genius. But some of the stuff that push out of the custom shop? It's just to much.
1:40
Hey Dialga called he ants his diamonds back
(Yes I enjoy playing Pokémon, what of it?)
If I were a woman I would dump my man if he doesn't offer me this guitar!
"Old World European finish that creates a fairy-dust glow and fortifies the beast the way old rifle barrels were prepared to withstand drastic climate changes."