A CUSTOM SHOP STRATOCASTER NECK FOR JEFF BECK, BY TODD KRAUSE

On Jeff Beck’s request, guitar technician Steve Prior sent one of Beck’s Peavey Rockingham hollow-body electric guitars to Fender Custom Shop Master Builder Todd Krause in 2011 as an example of a fatter neck with an 11 inch fingerboard radius in order to inform a fat neck prototype. The resulting FATNECK prototype was delivered to Beck in late 2011. It is believed that Beck paired the prototype neck with the body of his E Flat white Strat spare (see lot 83) and used the guitar for a performance of The Who’s 1973 single ‘Love, Reign o'er Me’ with Pete Townshend and the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 11 June 2012, as the finale of the BBC’s London on Film event, hosted by Mark Kermode and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The orchestral arrangement of ‘Love, Reign ‘er Me’, from The Who’s 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia, was scored by Townshend’s wife Rachel Fuller. After the show, Beck marked the neck as E FLAT SPARE / QUADRAPHENIA [sic] for future use. The neck was then carried on tour as a spare neck for Beck's E Flat spare in 2015 and 2016.