John Mayer Stratocaster

The John Mayer Signature Strats all have a 9.5″ rosewood radius fretboard, the standard 25.5″ scale length, and the six-screw vintage style bridge. And while those features are found on many other strats, the signature guitars do have some important differences. The neck is a more chunky “C” shape that most, which helps to give the guitar a fatter tone and better sustain. The guitars also boast John Mayer’s custom-spec “Big Dipper” pickups – which are exclusive to his guitar. The story goes that on his original SRV signature Strat, the pickups had been would incorrectly, resulting in a “scooped” (or lower) mid-range output. On an EQ curve, this would look like an inverted bell shape, where the mid-range frequencies dip down, hence the name “Big Dipper”. Though the pickups are not available separately from Fender, you can usually find them second-hand on the internet.