I bought this guitar thinking I was going to join a show band. I was in one of those moods like I was when I bought the Rickenbacker “Lightshow.”
What Was Fender Thinking?
The 1982 Gold Stratocaster was a neat trick by the Fender guitar company to have a new guitar without the cost of retooling. It was announced by the company in June 1981 as a Collector’s Series guitar but was a a bunch of Strat parts:
- Regular Strat body and one-piece maple neck.
- Small Peg Head
- Regular Strat white pickups with standard white 3-ply pickguard and white knobs.
- Gold-plated brass hardware like on the “Brassmaster Series” first introduced in 1980 and available on the basses too.
- The body came in gold-metallic and the hardware was plated in 100 micron gold, same as on fine jewelry.
Word has it that Fender lost money on every unit sold because the price of gold was going up.
So what happened?
I got bored and sold it to a guy in Jasper. Another one I should have kept! What was I thinking?