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Post subject: Fender Elite Stratocaster question
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:17 am
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I have a Elite and I notice that most of them I see have just string trees but my has like a fine tuner nut . Was this a option on them or were they a diffent model of Elite? Thanks for any info


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Post subject: Re: Fender Elite Stratocaster question
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:43 am
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goodinbed wrote:
I have a Elite and I notice that most of them I see have just string trees but my has like a fine tuner nut . Was this a option on them or were they a diffent model of Elite? Thanks for any info


That fine-tuner locking nut was an accessory for the Elites (and also the 2-knob Standards); I'm not sure if those nuts were introduced in 1983 when the guitars were introduced or if they came out as an accessory in 1984. Whenever it was introduced it could have been installed at the factory if the dealer ordered one with the locking nut or it could have been sold to owners who installed them as accessories.

I believe that Rob has mentioned that putting these on Elites still in the Fender warehouse was what they were doing in January 1985 when CBS brought back some employees as temps for a few weeks right around the NAMM show, so I suspect that the last of the Elites wound up coming with the locking nut as standard equipment.


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