fender stratocaster USA 1983 Dan Smith Custom Shop 54 pickups

[patrickp]

Fender USA Stratocaster In Sunburst. 1983 Model. With One Volume and One Tone Control. Very Good Condition. Original Case Looks Almost Like New .

A Few Paint Chips On The Back Keep This One From Being Excellent. A Fine Old Strat. This Model Was A Fairly Radical Departure From The Traditional Strat. It Features Top Loaded Tremolo With No Need For A Back Plate And Less Routing Of The Body, A Master Volume And Tone, And The Jack Is Mounted On The Pick Guard, 5 Way Switch. The Tremolo Is Different From All Other Models. Fitted With Custom Shop 54 Pickups and pots.

790£ in London

photos here :
http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fe...ups/1018935841

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[richardhomer]

My understanding is that these were known as 'American Standard' Strats. The 'Dan Smith' tag is usually reserved in vintage guitar-speak for the earlier '82 guitars, with original trems, jack-plates and three controls, which are quite collectible.

[Lixarto]

Frankus has one of these. Well, I think his is an '84, but it's this model.

[monquixote]

My understanding is that these were known as 'American Standard' Strats. The 'Dan Smith' tag is usually reserved in vintage guitar-speak for the earlier '82 guitars, with original trems, jack-plates and three controls, which are quite collectible.

Indeed. The strats with the freeflite trem are the post Dan Smith ones.

[Dezzy]

My understanding is that these were known as 'American Standard' Strats. The 'Dan Smith' tag is usually reserved in vintage guitar-speak for the earlier '82 guitars, with original trems, jack-plates and three controls, which are quite collectible.

your correct, they called some of them the Elite, and some of them were just std's, and I am sure this one is a std, as the elite's had other things like pickup change, or gold hardware, I have been check guitars from 1977 to 1983 the past week, check this out, also great info for possible purchaser

http://www.strat-central.com/cbs80s.htm

[richardhomer]

your correct, they called some of them the Elite, and some of them were just std's, and I am sure this one is a std, as the elite's had other things like pickup change, or gold hardware, I have been check guitars from 1977 to 1983 the past week, check this out, also great info for possible purchaser

http://www.strat-central.com/cbs80s.htm

The Elites had active circuitry and a different pick-up design. Guitars from this period (IIRC) were the very last to be built in the Fullerton factory, but are far from desirable. They were designed (the Standard in particular) to cut production costs - the body only needed to be routed from the front, jack moved on to the scratch-plate saving both machining and hardware, etc.

The 'new' American Standards from the Corona plant (from about '86/'87) were MUCH better.

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