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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:34 pm
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jc93230 wrote:
Beautiful Guitar! I had an American Deluxe in that Vintage white (butter yellow) color and loved it. I bought a '92 American Classic Floyd Rose Strat and made an orphan of the AM Deluxe. Great score on a not easy to find guitar.
Here is a link to my 92
http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii119/ccemsa17/Floyd%20Rose%20Strat/

I noticed yours had the DZ2 prefixed serial for a deluxe edition 2002. Mine has an FN2 prefix which is supposed to be "For export" and a 1992..."


Hello fellas.... Congrats "Tonelover"!!

My first post here on this forum...seems as we already have a lot in common too!! I'm also a "Floyd Rose Series" nutcase (bonifide!) . . . . . .

You guys have every right to love these rather odd Strats. My 1992 also has a serial starting with 'FNxxxxx' . Definitely made for export. Since I picked mine up in a used music gear shop in Stanton, Ca. I'm quite sure the local guy (previous owner) had it for years before me. So it never went out of the country. Mine is pure jet-black, also a H-S-S. But as soon as I figured "how" to do it, I gave the stock Fender single coils the old 'heave-ho' (good riddance!) I also got rid of the two stock 250K tone pots (one was a 'concentric' pot) and replaced them with CTS 500K audio taper pots instead. The middle pickup was replaced with a Seymour Duncan "Hot Rails" (verrry hot), and the neck pickup with a DiMarzio "Area '61" noiseless single coil I did all these mods myself, as well as replacing the tone capacitors with a 'paper in oil' 0.47uf on each tone pot. While I was inside the cavity the last time, I went ahead and installed a "treble bleed" cap/resister combo, soldering it across the lugs on the 500K volume pot ... Those treble bleed circuits really do work... just as advertised.

At the end of 2009, I sent the '92 Strat to an out-of-state repairman for a complete re-fret and neck re-radius. That really improved the playability.

Are you guys using your Floyd Rose much? I'm pretty careful with mine, and don't dive deep at all with it.

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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:56 am
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tonelover wrote:
Hey, thanks for the welcome. I am also somewhat of a condition junkie and this thing is in virtually mint condition, just one pencil point indentation near the input jack. It's a great player but I really love the looks of it too. While I might be impulsive at times I don't have a short attention span, when I find something I really gel with it stays with me for a very long time and I think this is one of those. I usually know right out of the box if I connect with something, if not it gets sold immediately.

Here is my '79 hardtail I've had for a long time. I said '80 in my original post but I was mistaken. I can never remember without looking. I know it isn't the most desirable year but this guitar has been an amazingly dependable workhorse. Has been dropped on concrete floors by drunk girls at parties, stolen and recovered, all sorts of stuff. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. The road worn look is completely original, I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Mate, it sounds like a great guitar!! its a shame that the images dont show on my screen though.

Regarding the "Classic" and the "Special", The special series used different humbuckers (Fender DH1 I think) and a different bridge. The "Classic" had an unusual serial number that was bound for export only. You may fing if it is a 1992, it will have an "FN******" serial number. It also sported a Dimarzio PAF Pro pickup in the bridge

If you can look into the pics and put them back up somehow mate that would be cool :) Hope the strat plays well- you will have lots of fun on a FR :)

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Blertles wrote:
Regarding the "Classic" and the "Special", the Special series used different humbuckers (Fender DH1 I think) and a different bridge. The "Classic" had an unusual serial number that was bound for export only. You may find if it's a 1992, it will have an "FN******" serial number. It also sported a DiMarzio PAF Pro pickup in the bridge.

If you can look into the pics and put them back up somehow mate that would be cool :) Hope the strat plays well- you will have lots of fun on a FR :)


The "Classic" of 1998 is the same guitar, except for the addition of the DH-1 humbucking pickups in place of the DiMarzio PAF Pros which were OEM since 1992.

In fact, the "Classic" has been renamed "Special" in 2001 to coincide with the introduction of the revamped DeltaTone pickups with custom-staggered polepieces, the universal HSH rout and the rolled-edge necks, which were stock on the then-new American Series line.

Both Classic and Special models used the same bridge.


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