Description
1979, Fender, Stratocaster, Rosewood Board,
Natural Ash, USA
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Tony Elder / Steve Jackson
Black Dot Music
Est 1985
This happy 1979 Strat is very clean condition. Original frets still have plenty of life, rear pickup has been replaced with a slightly hotter beastie and sounds great. Original ’79 pickups go for around $300 in you wanted to switch it back, there are plenty on the market. I’ve been playing the ’79 in store nearly every morning, it’s a lot of fun.
A 1979 Fender Stratocaster in a Natural finish with a rosewood fretboard features classic CBS-era specifications typical of the late 1970s.
Body & Finish
- Body Material: Solid ash (often heavily grained, transparent high-gloss polyurethane finish)
- Colour / Finish: Natural
- Pickguard: 3-ply black pickguard
- Bridge: Available as a standard synchronised tremolo bridge or a string-through-body hardtail (non-tremolo) with six saddles
Neck & Fingerboard
- Neck Material: Maple
- Neck Construction: 3-bolt neck plate with Micro-Tilt adjustment and a “skunk stripe” on the back
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood with pearloid or white dot inlays
- Number of Frets: 21 vintage-style frets
- Scale Length: 25.5″ (64.77 cm)
- Fingerboard Radius: 7.25″
- Neck Profile: Medium “C” shape (sometimes chunky or transitional rounded profile)
- Nut Width: 1-5/8″ (approx. 41.3 mm)
- Headstock: Large CBS-style headstock with “Bullet” style truss rod adjustment at the nut/headstock and Fender “F-style” tuning machines
Electronics & Hardware
- Pickups: Three original grey-bottom single-coil Stratocaster pickups
- Controls: 1 Volume, 2 Tone controls, and a 5-way pickup selector switch (standardized by the late ’70s)
- Potentiometers: Fender-spec CTS pots (typically dating to late 1978 or 1979)
- Hardware Finish: Chrome / Nickel
