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fender elite stratocaster uit 1983,finished in sunburst.

active electronics,3 push buttons 7 sounds mogelijk,speelt als een trein,te gekke sounds,midboost ect.

gitaar in goede staat voor de 25 jaar oude leeftijd,prachtige sunburst finish.

komt inklusief original case.

the elite stratocaster

work on the elite series commenced by fall 1981 and involved a team of
people consisting of dan smith, chip todd, john page, charlie gressett
and ... freddie tavares. it was then an ambitious attempt to blend
tradition with modern technologies and as such its prime objectives
were to upgrade the electronics, the vibrato system and the neck
adjustment. emg was initially supposed to develop new circuits for
fender, but could not be finalized. in order to avoid further delay in
the release of the model, the active electronics of the elite guitars
were eventually designed in a cooperative effort between roger cox,
paul guegan and bob eggler. john page devised the refined freeflyte
tremolo/bridge section with drop-in string loading. charlie gessett
came up with the biflex truss rod, which makes it possible to adjust
the neck curvature in two directions, convex and concave. after months
of research and hard work the elite stratocaster was finally announced
in may 1983 and compared to the existing variants of the stratocaster
it was built with no less than 16 novel features:

1 the biflex truss rod adjustment

2 a neck angle adjuster located in the neck plate

3 a slightly wider nut width (1.700")

4 a flatter fretboard radius (12")

5 ezy-glyder point contact string retainers

6 high ratio, lash-free, specially lubricated tuning gears

7 security lock strap buttons

8 a heavy duty cast bridge assembly with 'drop-in' string loading

9 freeflyte tremolo system with tension adjustable from the top

10 snap-on torq-master tremolo arm

11 alnico ii single coil pickups without protruding poles

12 noise-cancelling pickup system with a dummy coil between the lead and the middle pickups

13 active electronics with a special preamp circuitry including mdx (mid-range) and tbx (high-range) controls

14 three separate pickup push-push/on-off switches

15 an edge-mounted jack output

16 control knobs with a serrated rubber insert

whereas some of these features could be viewed as refinements of
existing concepts, the major deparature from the usual fender ethics
was undoubtedly the advent of active electronics. their purpose was to
offer a wider range of tones and the quietness of humbucking pickups,
while retaining the brilliant single coil attack fender guitars are
associated with. in many respects, the elite series certainly outlined
the renewed innovating capacities of fender, but in an otherwise fairly
conservative guitar world it did not prove a milestone as anticipated.

by mid-1983, the new model was released in 3 configurations

* the elite stratocaster, with heavy chrome-plated hardware, available
with a rosewood fretboard or a one-piece maple neck in 6 standard
finishes and 9 custom finishes

* the gold elite stratocaster, same as above except gold electroplated hardware and pearloid buttons on tuners

* the walnut elite stratocaster, with body and neck crafted from solid
american black walnut, ebony fretboard, gold-electroplated hardware and
pearloid buttons on tuners

whatever the choice of fretboard (rosewood, maple or ebony), it should
be noticed that the neck was sporting a contrasting "skunk stripe" on
its back, indicating that the biflex truss rod was installed from the
rear. the elite body was also characterized by the absence of back
recess (and back plate) for the tremolo springs and the small backplate
near the edge covered the 9-volt battery required by the active
circuitry.

with the introduction of the elite series, the strat, the walnut strat
and the gold stratocaster were all dropped from the fender price list
of july 1, 1983.

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