The guitar, complete with 24-karat gold strings, cost about $18,000 to ... he studied instrument repair and guitar building for a year in Red Wing before hitting the road in a van and playing ...

And now the transformation is complete, thanks to a pair of 15-foot angel wings made from moon dust ... they're an angel's harp strings. Those gold gloves and matching shoes?

Credit: Cort Paired with a solid spruce top, the A-10 Cocobolo is for those how like their high-end acoustic guitar to come dressed in some finery. There are gold open-gear Grover tuners.

This article was originally published on Dec. 10, 2010: What: One-of-a-kind Fender Stratocaster, fully gold-plated from the top of the headstock to the bottom of the electric guitar’s signature ...

The guitar, complete with 24-karat gold strings, cost about $18,000 to ... he studied instrument repair and guitar building for a year in Red Wing before hitting the road in a van and playing ...