Fender Strat Plus 1991 - Rare Mercedes Blue - Gold Lace Sensor Pickups TBX

This is quite simply the best Fender Strat Plus I have ever owned (and I’m on number 5 now!)….

Superb action, plays like a dream and sounds fantastic - has the rare Gold Lace sensor pickups which are vintage voiced and the best sounding of all the Lace Sensors…..naturally has the TBX controls as well! Sensational guitar and gorgeous rare colour too!

• Super Rare Mercedes Blue Colour
• Gorgeous Maple neck
• Three Gold Lace Sensor pickups - these are the rare vintage voiced ones from pre 1990, more modern ones (Red, Blue and Green ones are hot pickups so are only loud, these sound better and have more tone)
• Locking tuners
• All Original. Made in 1991
• Serial: N1032960 (N1 = 1991)

The pick-ups on this guitar are pre 1990, how to tell:

• two wires only on each pick up
• metal bar across the bottom of each pick up
• gold labels on each pick up
• “Actodyne General” is on the labels

This changed in 1990, so the pick guard on this guitar was assembled by Fender before 1990 even though the guitar serial number dates to 1991.

This was not unusual for Fender. The pre-1990 gold lace sensor pickup are more authentic to vintage sounds than the later hotter ones. Having had a couple of later strat plus guitars I can confirm this and definitely prefer the sound of the more vintage pre 1990 pickups which this guitar has.

Amazing Strat!