Until today I thought the Steve Vai JEM 77FP was the ugliest guitar I’ve ever seen but Fender has gone a step forward and has released the Fender Splato Stratocaster. This guitar was conceived for the Guitar World contest “Design your dream guitar” by Jimmy Stout and build for Fender by Scott Buehl.
The Fender Splato features an aluminum body with Lexan chambers where a fluid (made from paraffin oil, hydrophobic dye, distilled water, a biocide and plain-old grocery store food coloring, great cocktail!) flows like in a lava lamp. Looks like a colored edition of the ESP WaveCaster owned by Kirk Hammett.
The main features of the Fender Splato are maple neck, ebony fingerboard, chrome-plated 5052 aluminum headstock and 2 Fender noiseless stratocaster single-coil pickups and 1 Seymour Duncan pearly gates bridge humbucker pickup.
After 18 months of design and build Fender has neither announced if the Splato will be available through the Custom Shop nor its price, we’ll see.
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