1981 Fender – The Strat – Candy Apple Red – ID 5816

A Fender rarity from the early 80s: This "The Strat" from 1981 comes in a beautiful candy apple red finish with matching headstock.
The model "The Strat" was Fender's high-end Stratocaster at the time and introduced some exclusive features, including gold-plated hardware and a special 2-way rotary switch that enabled additional switching and thus a total of 9 pickup combinations.
At the same time, some classic pre-CBS features returned, including the smaller headstock, quad neck bolt-on and the removal of the bullet-style truss rod adjustment.
The tremolo lever is missing, otherwise it is still in good condition.

✅ Year of construction: 1981
✅ Model: Fender "The Strat"
✅ Finish: Candy Apple Red, Matching Headstock
✅ Body: probably ash
✅ Neck: maple, 4-bolt neck plate
✅ Fingerboard: Maple
✅ Hardware: gold-plated, with slight fading/corrosion
✅ Weight: 4685 grams
✅ Circuits: 5-way switch + 2-way rotary selector
✅ Extra pickup combinations:
- Neck + Middle in series
- Middle + Bridge in series
- Neck + Bridge parallel
- Neck + Bridge parallel + Middle in series
✅ Case: not original