Legend has it that during the early 80’s, Fender temporarily moved their production plant to Japan and ALL product manufacturing took place for a very limited period solely at this new facility. The Japanese being the Japanese, managed to do SUCH a good job of it that Fender USA had to move the plant back to the states in order to protect their brand image and pride!

This Stratocaster is one such example of an early 80’s Japanese strat born in that factory. I have played many many instruments ranging from the highest end Gibsons and Fenders, to the lowest end replicas and base line Ibanez’s etc. Stratocasters have for me always been my preferred model over any other, and if I’m being honest, the cream of the crop for me was a 59′ vintage strat that had the most unbelievable neck profile and “playability” I’ve ever come across. This is the ONLY other guitar I’ve felt equally as emotionally charged about! – it matches that standard almost identically.

Before we stumbled across it it had been used as a regular gigging guitar for a good 20 years, it started its life Olympic white, then got (badly) stripped to natural, before we turned it into a much more smoke-filled-room version of blonde white.

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