<font color="yellow">Wow...I can finally spill my guts!! I've been goin nuts for a couple of weeks waiting to see if this would come to be...so here's the story (in my usual news-reporter style [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img])
I guess HippieTim was in a chatroom and was talking to 442w30, and talking about Fenders. I guess Davie (442) said he had a Elite that he was thinking of selling, and Tim said that I was actively looking for one as I had one years ago and like a total complete moron, let it go [img]/images/graemlins/refuse.gif[/img].
Anywho...Dave contacted me and I immediately rogered up saying that if he decided to let it go, I would like to have first go at it, as I was very interested in obtaining another.
The Fender Elite was available only in 83' and 84', with several models, the Gold being the higher end (gold hardware, pearloid tuners) over the "standard" Elite. It features Alnico II pickups w/special covers and a unique pushbutton system for the pickups for total control over them vice the 5-way blade switch usually used. It also has a "dummy" coil under the pickguard which acts sort of like a humbucker to cancel hum (cool idea of Fender). It is active electronics with the (then) new TBX and MDX tone circuits (the predecesor of the Eric Clapton Strat).
It doesn't have the normal vintage trem, but a trem named the Freeflyte trem. It has mixed reviews, but, I don't recall having any probs with mine for tuning or function...and, I'm not really a big trem guy, so, it should be fine.
It also has the Fender neck tilt adjustment for adjusting the neck angle for the desired action.
From what I can remember of mine, they sound terrific and mine played very well!! Classic Strat sounds with very little noise and much more control of tone than that of a "normal" Strat.
I'm very excited to get it and add it to my collection, which it should be here by Friday (please, please, please [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]).
Here's some pics that I lifted from Dave (sorry man [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img])...this one is a cool sunburst...(yeah, I have to remove the stickers his daughter placed on the pickguard [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]).
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I guess HippieTim was in a chatroom and was talking to 442w30, and talking about Fenders. I guess Davie (442) said he had a Elite that he was thinking of selling, and Tim said that I was actively looking for one as I had one years ago and like a total complete moron, let it go [img]/images/graemlins/refuse.gif[/img].
Anywho...Dave contacted me and I immediately rogered up saying that if he decided to let it go, I would like to have first go at it, as I was very interested in obtaining another.
The Fender Elite was available only in 83' and 84', with several models, the Gold being the higher end (gold hardware, pearloid tuners) over the "standard" Elite. It features Alnico II pickups w/special covers and a unique pushbutton system for the pickups for total control over them vice the 5-way blade switch usually used. It also has a "dummy" coil under the pickguard which acts sort of like a humbucker to cancel hum (cool idea of Fender). It is active electronics with the (then) new TBX and MDX tone circuits (the predecesor of the Eric Clapton Strat).
It doesn't have the normal vintage trem, but a trem named the Freeflyte trem. It has mixed reviews, but, I don't recall having any probs with mine for tuning or function...and, I'm not really a big trem guy, so, it should be fine.
It also has the Fender neck tilt adjustment for adjusting the neck angle for the desired action.
From what I can remember of mine, they sound terrific and mine played very well!! Classic Strat sounds with very little noise and much more control of tone than that of a "normal" Strat.
I'm very excited to get it and add it to my collection, which it should be here by Friday (please, please, please [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]).
Here's some pics that I lifted from Dave (sorry man [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img])...this one is a cool sunburst...(yeah, I have to remove the stickers his daughter placed on the pickguard [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]).
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