Hank Marvin Sunburst Fender Stratocaster

[Alainlafrance]

Now she's in France

http://guitarmotel.com/

Are you sure it's the same guitar? The one on that site has a three-colour sunburst finish.

Yes; it's fully documented and it's a two-colour sunburst, I know of course, this is our site
Serial # 22102 =>1957

I still don't understand. That guitar...

http://guitarmotel.com/images/stories/Fender-Stratocaster-1957-HBMarvin/wm/fgeng57zneiva-2.jpg

...has a three colour sunburst. There's a definite area of red within the black shading.

That dosn't mean it's not Hank's old guitar, of course, but my understanding was that three-colour sunburst is vanishingly rare on maple-neck 1950s guitars.

Might come from the colour calibration of your monitor and maybe from a deviance into the red of the camera (although a Nikon D3).
But it is a two tone sunburst as any 1957 sunburst Stratocaster.
Well what about going back to the OP ?

[Fenderman]

I'm pretty sure that guitar was used on the 'Live at Abbey Road' album from 1982 (i've seen some photos from the session on the CD inlay).

[StuartD]

Hank used it on Memory. He told me that himself. He said it had a little bit 'harder' tone than the red one. Of course he could have been telling me porkies and it might have been a Gretsch!!

Regards

Stuart

[bgohara]

he uses it on the tv ad for the shadows silver album (of course he is miming here)...
Bernie

[fullerton62strat]

Hank used the sunburst (two-tone) Strat as a practice/stadby guitar. He was using it in the dressing room at the 1984 NEC reunion when I went up with Jet to meet them all. He would even twiddle on it when talking to you. His main Strat on that tour was a 62 Fiesta Red Strat given to him by a fan in France some years earlier.

Definitely a two-tone.

John

[Alainlafrance]

Thanks for the info, I'll update the site.
Hank bought it for £ 5000...

[Alainlafrance]

Hank used the sunburst (two-tone) Strat as a practice/stadby guitar. He was using it in the dressing room at the 1984 NEC reunion when I went up with Jet to meet them all. He would even twiddle on it when talking to you. His main Strat on that tour was a 62 Fiesta Red Strat given to him by a fan in France some years earlier.

Definitely a two-tone.

John

In fact Hank bought it in December 1980 in a shop in Paris whose owner (Patrice Bastien, now lead Guitar of Guitar Express) was effectively a fan: it was a 58/11 Fiesta Red Strat.

[padmat78]

In fact Hank bought it in December 1980 in a shop in Paris whose owner (Patrice Bastien, now lead Guitar of Guitar Express) was effectively a fan: it was a 58/11 Fiesta Red Strat.[/quote]

And he replaced the neck by a new one few time after...