Leroux Music 

2114A 14 st NW 

Calgary

1991 - Midnight Wine - Conversion nut - Maple Board

Comes with unoriginal hardshell case, unoriginal trem bar.

From my understanding, this model was inbetween the two era’s of the roller nut, so quite rare as it was cut for the old Wilkinson nut, but fitted with the new LSR.

Comes with original hard shell case. Non original trem arm. Guitar is in amazing condition, especially considering it’s almost 40 years old! Please check photos closely, happy to send more pictures and videos. 

The Strat Plus was intended as a modern take on the Stratocaster that would appeal to professional musicians while preserving the integrity of the Stratocaster. It was the first Fender to be equipped with Lace Sensor pickups-designed to eliminate the typical 60-cycle hum of single-coils-and it received the 1989 Music & Sound Award for Most Innovative Guitar from Guitar Player Magazine.

Before conceiving the Strat Plus, Fender had been developing another model-the Vintage Plus Stratocaster. It even appeared on the 1986 price list, sharing the same part number as the Strat Plus, but it never went into production.

At the time, Fender aimed to create a guitar featuring special pickups and hardware, and after discarding several prototypes that were too far outside the original design of the Stratocaster, they eventually released the Strat Plus.

George Blanda: "Working on the Vintage Plus, we were talking with Don Lace, Trev Wilkinson, Bob Sperzel-all these boutique hardware and pickup people. We were looking for cutting-edge modifications. Some of the new Strat protos even had locking tremolos and humbuckers, but at that time it was decided those things were too far outside the realm of the Strat."

The result was a Stratocaster equipped with three Lace Sensor Gold pickups, a TBX Tone Control, a 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo, Locking Tuners, Roller Nut, BiFlex truss rod, and Micro Tilt.

The Strat Plus featured the same 2-Pivot Synchronized Tremolo system with brushed, offset cast-block saddles as the American Standard models of the late 1980s and 1990s, equipped with a powder-coated cast steel inertia block. Early production examples occasionally came with nickel-plated tremolo blocks, while others were painted in black or grey paint. The system included a steel tremolo arm with a 10-32 threaded insert and knife-edge pivot points for smooth operation and tuning stability.