Fender HM Strat Guitar -USA ***

Fender HM Strat Guitar -USA ***

Price: 450.0
American made. Original owner, purchased new in 1990. Excellent condition all original. Used it to play out early 90's and again early 2000. Very little fret wear as I don't play electric much lately. This guitar gets a Fender or Gibson sound with tapped humbucker. I used to also have a 1980 Les Paul that i would alternate with this guitar and the neck and playability seemed similar to me. Except the HM has the extra fret which useful.Serial number K930937.&n bsp;Wiki description follows. This should help, This was bought is 1990 and it the US made version with the one Dimarzio humbucker with the tap swith for going single coil or humbucker sound.The Fender HM (Heavy metal) strat was originally produced in Japan and subsequently, in 1990, in the United States. Some evidence indicates that assembly in the U.S. with some components imported from Japan may have begun as early as 1987. The first version appeared with a distinct Strat logo in the headstock, 24 medium jumbo frets (i.e. these are thicker and wider frets), a maple neck with rosewood or maple fingerboard and with one of the four neck "bolts" (screws) off-set at the bottom of the neck to allow a more comfortable "heel" area for playing in the upper registers, a lighter basswood body, or occasionally alder for US made guitars). In addition the Fender HM Strat had a Kahler licensed double-locking tremolo system[1], "Spyder", and Gotoh[2] tuners, one DiMarzio[3] humbucki ng H* "Super 3" pickup ("H" configuration), and sometimes two single coil pickups (S*, HSS configuration), two humbuckers, or sometimes a single additional Super Distortion, (HH configuration) and a side mounted jack socket. Japanese-assembled guitars have colored polyester on the bodies, and clear polyester on the necks. American-assembled HM Strats have a very hard aircraft grade urethane color and clear coats on the body, while still using polyester finish on the neck. Kahler USA offers a detailed schematic diagram of the Kahler Spyder tremolo[4] and several (but not all) replacement parts are available.On Feb-06-13 at 08:55:26 PST, seller added the following information:This does have the TBX tone controlsOn Feb-06-13 at 09:54:44 PST, seller added the following information:Added new pictures 2/6/13 that i took with sun. Noticable ding at top of headstock.  There are 3 tiny imperfections on below pick guard area and 1 towards bottom that don't show on pictures. You really have to look hard to find these. ... Click for more info
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