1993 Fender Japan ST-CHAMP Travel 70's Style Stratocaster (Aged White)

1993 Fender Japan ST-CHAMP Travel 70's Style Stratocaster (Aged White)The perfect travel guitar. No arguments. Made in the early 1990's, this is a seldom seen 70's style ST CHAMP travel Stratocaster with a built in speaker and overdrive distortion. 24 inch scale length and a compact Stratocaster style body. 3 way switch turns the electronics off and switches between clean and distorted signals, you're also able to run the guitar through an amp either on it's own or at the same time as the onboard speaker for some wild

Bridge: Tune-O-Matic with Italia Trapeze Tailpiece

Loaded with the original Greco PU-0 pickups

Made by Kawai in the late 1960's and sold under the Splendor brand

Serial number 354900

Passive PJ pickups for plenty of tonal options

Well used vintage condition as pictured with plenty of cosmetic bumps and dings

With these and other fine features

the Yamaha ST600R was a mid-range Japanese build that offers a very affordable vintage Stratocaster with plenty of quality craftsmanship that plays and sounds great

it's said that once the Matsumoku factory (that made most of the 70's and 80's Aria Pro II instruments) had closed they moved production to the Tokai factory in Hamamatsu

This one has the original Maxon humbuckers with an aftermarket coil split mini toggle for the bridge pickup along with a replaced Bigsby tailpiece that's been partially painted matte gold (along with the pickup rings and pickguard) and some upgraded Gibson Deluxe tuners

The early 1989 version of the DD-3 with the same "long chip" as the DD-2

Looks to be all original with the exception of a new switch and output jack along with possibly the strap buttons