Custom Artist Series: Mercedes Blue, Midnight Blue, Black, Gold Leaf Metallic (from 2004) 2001 Crashocaster Series: Graffiti Canvas 2008 10th Anniversary Crossroads Antigua: Antigua Sunburst 2009 Limited Edition: Daphne Blue, EC Grey 2019 Limited Edition: Almond Green 2023 Limited Edition Crossroads Centre 25th Anniversary: Blu Scozia, Graffiti Canvas Custom Thinskin Nitro: Olympic White, Pewter, Torino Red The Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster is the signature model electric guitar of English guitarist Eric Clapton.

In 1970, for his landmark Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs with Derek and the Dominos, Clapton started using a sunburst 1956 Stratocaster which he later nicknamed Brownie that he had bought in May 1967 while in Cream.

Clapton asked Fender to make a guitar with the distinctive V-shape neck of his Martin acoustic as well as a "compressed" pickup sound.

Clapton first used Gold Lace Sensors on three prototype signature models built by George Blanda and Michael Stevens – one was finished in Torino Red and the other two in Pewter Grey Metallic – in The Prince's Trust Concert, in June 1986.

The first early prototypes made around 1986–87 featured a 21-fret neck, a 21 dB mid-boost circuit, an active/passive toggle switch (which has been deleted on the final release) and Schaller locking strap buttons.

The final product (released in 1988) is essentially a vintage 1957 reissue Stratocaster featuring a deeply contoured select alder body, a 1-piece soft V-shaped maple neck fitted with 22 vintage-style frets, flat 9.5" radius and BiFlex truss-rod system,[8][failed verification] a "blocked" original American Vintage synchronized tremolo, Gotoh/Kluson tuning machines, 1-ply white pickguard and three Fender Gold Lace Sensor pickups powered by an active MDX mid-boost circuit with 25 dB of gain and TBX tone controls,[9] which helped augment the tone of the sound delivered, opening up a wider tonal range Clapton desired.

The Vintage Noiseless pickups were previously available as a standard equipment material on the Fender American Deluxe Series guitars produced before 2004.

[10][failed verification] The Eric Clapton Custom Journeyman Relic Stratocaster, introduced in 2017, features a 2-piece select ash body, available in 2-Colour Sunburst and Aged White Blonde.

[11][failed verification] Many of these guitars were sold for charity auctions for the Crossroads Centre of Antigua, the drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation facility founded on the small, idyllic Caribbean island in 1998.

Bearing in mind the number of changes he makes with regards to neck dimensions, Clapton fans purchasing this will be getting an exact replica as used at the Crossroads Guitar Festivals 2007, 2010, 2013 & 2019.

The first Antigua prototype model was awarded to its creator Martin DeCasas who worked on color schemes for Fender from July 1964 till its closing in Fullerton, California in February 1985.