1985 Fender Performer Guitar - Unique and Rare!

  • City: Los Angeles
  • State: California
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I am the original owner of this 1985 Frost White Fender Performer that I bought from Sam Ash in Paramus, NJ in 1985. As you can see from the pictures, it is in very good to excellent condition. It comes with the original Fender clamshell case. I DO NOT have the tremolo/whammy bar. I am asking $2399 or best offer. You can see these are going for $2000 - $3500+ on reverb. More info below: The Fender Performer was an electric guitar designed by John Page for rock and metal guitarists in the mid-1980s. The body is small with a deep double cutaway similar to the Fender Swinger. The tuning machines are found on the upper edge of the triangular headstock and a locking nut clamps the strings behind a plastic nut, as typically found on Fender guitars. The rosewood fretboard has 24 jumbo frets and features a locking nut. The bridge is a floating System I tremolo. The controls have inset rubber grips, the tuning heads have fully enclosed gears, and the jack socket is an enclosed, not 'skeleton', type, in contrast to many other Fender products with 'economy' hardware. The Fender Performer was available in the following poly finishes: Brown Sunburst (532), Frost White (555), Burgundy Mist (566), Emerald Mist (567) and Gun Metal Blue (568). Manufacturer: Fender Period: 1985–1986 Body type: Solid Neck joint: Bolt-on Scale: 25.5 in Body: Alder, Basswood, Birch Neck: Maple Fretboard: Rosewood Bridge: Fender System I tremolo Pickup(s): 2 Humbuckers (H/H) The two pickups are custom humbuckers which both sit at an angle opposite to that of a standard Stratocaster or Telecaster bridge pickup. It appears that the coils are offset to keep the magnets in line with the strings, although they are potted in epoxy so the magnets cannot be seen. The guitar featured controls for master volume and TBX, a 3-way pickup selector and a coil splitting switch. The TBX circuit used stacked 250k and 1M pots with a center detent.