Fender ‘The Strat’ 1982

This is the first good guitar I’ve ever had. It is part of a series that Fender had out from the late part of 1980 until late 1982. As a result, it is not a very common guitar, although I have run across a few here and there. Mine is ‘Sapphire Blue’ which is an opaque dark blue metal flake finish- a pretty rare finish for this model. The body is made of hard ash (looks like 3 pieces), with a maple neck (no separate fingerboard). All of the hardware on this guitar is 22k gold-plated brass, and as a result, it is fairly heavy. The electronics are fairly different on this guitar, as the first tone control is a master tone control for all of the pickups. The second tone control knob is not a tone control at all, but a 2 position rotary switch. This switch allows different combinations of the three pickups.

This is the way it works:

5-Way Switch Position | 2- way Switch OFF | 2-way Switch ON

Strat pickups in series are louder, and bassier than their normal parallel configuration. It is an interesting