1983 Fender Strat Elite Cinnamon burst

Here we have a very clean 1983 Elite Strat, and a red sunburst I have never seen. The previous owner told me it was called cinnamon burst, I saw something similar that was called wild cherry, so there you go. I don't see any real wear, dings, abuse, and virtually no fret wear. It's not mint, but excellent describes it well.

I remember when these came out, I opened my shop in 1985 and the local music store that had been here forever had these. I was amazed at the 4th pickup (basically a coil) underneath the guard that made the pickups humbuckers, and it was so quiet! And you could run all 3 pickups at once! I was living in amazing times.

Issues. Not many. Apparently the locking nut has the fine tuners on it. The high E and B strings are missing the adjustment pieces underneath, and the screw on to that tightens these strings up. I kinda think the locking nut is a useless thing, and just not use it but if the locking nut is your focus, then these pieces are missing. The tremolo uses a 10/32 Allen screw to adjust the height of the tremolo off the body, and it was missing. We bought a 10/32 x 3/8", restrung with D'Addario 10-46's and set up fine. If you wanted to go to 11's you might need a 1/2" Allen screw. But the tremolo works great. The tremolo arm was missing, it's a pop in type and we had an old pop in chrome one that fit, so that is the tremolo arm. I had a white tipped one around here, if it pops up I will include it instead.

The case is the one the guy got with the guitar, an early Fender Tweed. It shows some scuffs but is solid and no issues.

Thanks for looking!

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