The Guitar Doctor

[pjdude]

I thought it was funny as hell!

 

[toothace]

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more PRS!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I don't like it when people make fun of me.

 

[Mom #1]

Lol it's true.

 

[rugerpc]

hork!

 

[drdoom8793]

Did someone say The Doctor??

 

[bodia]

 

[CoreyT]

Did someone say The Doctor??

Yes indeed.

 

[shinksma]

Yes indeed.

Ever since I saw this episode I wanted to figure out what guitar that was - thanks for reminding me!

It is a Yamaha SGV800 (black sparkle):

http://download.yamaha.com/api/asset/file/?language=en&site=usa.yamaha.com&asset_id=35883

At first I couldn't find out what the heck it actually was. In the process I did find this amusing bit from an interview with Peter Capaldi about the episode:

“We had a great day when I went to pick the Doctor’s guitar,” he recalls. “We went to Denmark Street and went to various vintage guitar shops, looking for Doctor Who’s guitar. And at first I thought it should be like a Stratocaster or a Telecaster, one of those old classic guitars, but they all started to look like I was having a midlife crisis.”

“We ended up with a guitar that looked like a Fender Stratocaster that had been described to someone who had never seen one.”

“That [joke] is hilarious, if you’re into guitars...”​