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Photo by Amy V. Cooper via MTV

Building on a comment from the thread in the last post I looked up a series of youtube videos I’d seen a while back, put together by Guitar World and featuring “Nightwatchman” Tom Morello, former Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist. While watching parts 1, 2, and 3, I noticed the Strat he was playing looked very simular to the Black and Chrome Fat Strat I discussed, so I checked it out:

Fender Custom Stratocaster “Soul Power” – Originally a Factory Special Run (FSR) released at Guitar Center. Black with white binding, a color-matched headstock, mirror pickguard, and the words “Soul Power” scrawled across the top of the body in white paint. It has an Ibanez Edge Floyd Rose Tremolo, locking nut, a toggle switch wired as a kill switch (He uses the 5-way pickup selector to switch through pickups), a Seymour Duncan Hotrails pickup in the bridge and Fender Noiseless pickups in the middle and neck positions. Morello mainly uses the neck pickup on this guitar unless he needs a hotter tone, then he switches to the Hotrails pickup. It’s his main guitar in Audioslave for songs that are in Standard E tuning.

Definitely a top of the line version of what I want to work with. After watching the video’s I think the kill switch is a must have.