Editing Nile Rodgers (section)

===The Hitmaker===
Rodgers plays a 1960 Fender [[Stratocaster]] with a 1959 neck, nicknamed [[The Hitmaker]], which he acquired as a trade-in at a shop in [[Miami Beach, Florida]]. Exceptionally light, it has a maple fingerboard and a worn white finish. Rodgers claims it has a unique sound. After Rodgers purchased the guitar, Edwards taught him how to play it in a [[chop chord]] style, which he called "chucking". In his autobiography, Rodgers wrote:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201110/nile-rodgers-le-freak-book-excerpt|title=Nile Rodgers, "Chic Sh*t Happens: The Rise and Call of the Disco Revolution", extract from ''Le Freak, An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny'', GQ.com, October 18, 2011|work=GQ|date=October 18, 2011|access-date=September 28, 2014}}</ref> "He fingered the chords with his left hand, and his right hand would continuously play sixteen notes to the bar while accenting the main parts of the rhythm ... One lesson was all I needed. For the next few nights straight, while my roommate pursued all manner of trysts, I was having a love affair in the bathroom with my new ax. In just a few days, I'd emerge as a chucking funk guitarist who knew more jazz chord inversions than most of my R&B counterparts."

The Fender Custom Shop introduced a limited edition Nile Rodgers Hitmaker Stratocaster, a recreation of Rodgers' guitar, in January 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fender.com/custom-shop/series/artist/nile-rodgers-tribute-hitmaker-stratocaster-maple-fingerboard-olympic-white/|title="Nile Rodgers Tribute 'Hitmaker' Stratocaster", ''Fender.com''|publisher=Fender.com|access-date=September 28, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013134849/http://www.fender.com/custom-shop/series/artist/nile-rodgers-tribute-hitmaker-stratocaster-maple-fingerboard-olympic-white/|archive-date=October 13, 2014}}</ref>