Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" vs Fender Stratocaster 1956
The Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" and the Fender Stratocaster 1956 are both electric guitars sharing transparent, mid-forward. The Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" leans warm and sustaining. The Fender Stratocaster 1956 leans bright.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.53% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Blues
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- transparent
- mid-forward
Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy"
Dan Erlewine · electric guitar
Fender Stratocaster 1956
Fender · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$3285.24via Reverb
This brown Flying V, built by luthier Dan Erlewine, is one of several instruments Albert King named Lucy over his career, part of a lineage that began with his original 1959 Korina Flying V and continued through custom copies from different builders including Erlewine, John Bolin and Tom Holmes as King wore through or retired earlier examples. Erlewine was among the first luthiers King commissioned for a replacement once his original Korina V became too valuable and fragile for regular touring use. It is associated in this catalogue with both Albert King and Joe Bonamassa, the latter a well-documented collector of King-associated Flying Vs.
This entry covers a 1956 Fender Stratocaster with no specific documented owner or recorded history attached. By 1956 the Stratocaster had settled into its now-classic mid-50s form: an alder body finished in two-tone sunburst, three single-coil pickups, and a one-piece maple neck bolted on with the original four-screw plate. Guitars from this early production window are prized among collectors for a lighter body weight and brighter, more resonant voice than later Strats, largely due to the specific wood and finish choices Fender used before larger design changes arrived later in the decade.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Rock
- Rockabilly
- warm
- sustaining
- bright