U2's The Edge: Custom guitar and amp announced with Fender

I wanted to create the ultimate Strat, the 54-year-old guitarist tells EW.

I think its the closest I could hope to get to the Strat sound of my imagination.

I was pretty meticulous.

Credit: FMIC

The revered guitarist, of course, has a deep bench of instruments.

Once we succeeded with that, it seemed like a natural step to put the guitar into production.

FMIC