1983 Walnut Elite

This is a 1983 Straocaster Elite Walnut. The body and neck made of solid black walnut, gold hardware, special pearloid tuner buttons and factory installed straplocks.At the time of its introduction, the Walnut Elite was the top of the line, and production was stopped after only two years, when Fender left CBS.  The solid walnut elite is the rarest of them all.  It has a 12” radius ebony fret board with jumbo frets, which makes string bending easy.  It also has active electronics and special alnico pickups with solid covers.  The pickups mount directly onto the body of the guitar and there is a dummy coil under the pickguard for hum canceling.