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Limited Edition with bottle opener headstock.

Circa 1986

https://reverb.com/item/15750250-fernandes-limited-edition-stratocaster-copy-1985-86-burgundy-mist

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Sigmania said:
Not the typical Tokai type holes in the neck pocket.

Pickups and wiring look very Tokai though.

FERNANDES RST Unknown Strat, Stratocaster type
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These vintage-style Limited Editions (as opposed to various superstratoids with same moniker) are kind of a breed of their own, out-of-catalog, found only in occasional store ads as ST-38, -40 and -45, and too far removed from the vintage originals to qualify for the The Revival moniker, apparently.

I've had a few of them, and did a write-up of them here. At least the bodies seem to be Matsumoku-made.
 
Sigmania said:
Limited Edition with bottle opener headstock.

Circa 1986

https://reverb.com/item/15750250-fernandes-limited-edition-stratocaster-copy-1985-86-burgundy-mist
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These seem to be US-export versions of contemporary Revivals, only with another headstock. A lot of the ones sold by Rudy's Music in NYC to various rockstars at the time have these appoinments. I guess the changed headstock shape disqualified them from the The Revival label.
Fernandes were actually pretty particular about that. For instance, their early 90s copy of Slash's luthier-made Appetlite Les Paul was LG-75GR, not RLG. Makes sense, since it's actually a copy of a copy. Or of a reproduction, which is what copies are called if they're really expensive. :cool:
 
Shaky Iphone 2ish video of one of the hooked Fernandes LE's owned and played by Robert Quine (yeah, the guy in my profile pic :cool: ), one of several sold at the estate auction after he passed in 2002. Note the exotic John Suhr electronics.

Quine had a number of earlier Revivals as well, one was the main guitar used on The Blue Mask (1982). I would assume that that one had the Suhr mods as well, he was the tech at Rudy's Music at the time.
 

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