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Post subject: 1981 Custom STRAT made for Fender employee?
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:41 pm
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I am trying to collect information on a unique Fender STRAT I own. As far as I know it was made for a former employee of Fender R&D, Stephen Bussey. It has his name engraved on the neck plate along with the year 1981. It appears to be a fender "the strat" with a Telecaster Deluxe neck. You in also see in the last picture, the Fender researchers band. Stephen Bussey is on the left playing a Fender lead series and Steve Boulanger playing this Strat on the right (John Page is in there too). I am really interested to find out who might have made this guitar and if it did indeed come in this configuration.

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Post subject: Re: 1981 Custom STRAT made for Fender employee?
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:39 pm
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Hi jakeeckes,

That sounds like a question for someone at Fender that has been there a while. Hopefully Rob Schwarz will see this one. If not, you might contact Fender directly via email, and include your pictures.

http://www.fender.com/support/articles/contact-consumer-relations/

Very cool if true!

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Post subject: Re: 1981 Custom STRAT made for Fender employee?
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 6:45 am
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shimmilou wrote:
Hi jakeeckes,

That sounds like a question for someone at Fender that has been there a while. Hopefully Rob Schwarz will see this one. If not, you might contact Fender directly via email, and include your pictures.

http://www.fender.com/support/articles/contact-consumer-relations/

Very cool if true!


I did email Fender but if I attach pictures the server rejects the email. I sent just text and I am hoping someone replies so I can email them. We will see.


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Post subject: Re: 1981 Custom STRAT made for Fender employee?
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:07 am
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jakeeckes wrote:
I am trying to collect information on a unique Fender STRAT I own. As far as I know it was made for a former employee of Fender R&D, Stephen Bussey. It has his name engraved on the neck plate along with the year 1981. It appears to be a fender "the strat" with a Telecaster Deluxe neck. You in also see in the last picture, the Fender researchers band. Stephen Bussey is on the left playing a Fender lead series and Steve Boulanger playing this Strat on the right (John Page is in there too). I am really interested to find out who might have made this guitar and if it did indeed come in this configuration.
    Hi jakeeckes. Very cool Strat you have there and it also has an intriguing history.

    A Google search turned up this link to an article entitled Tubes versus transistors in electric guitar amplifiers written by Bussey, W. ; CBS Musical Instruments, Fullerton, California ; Haigler, R. and published in Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '81. The conference took place in April 1981.

    Maybe there's a connection?

    HTH

    Cheers!
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