Nice playing :) I have an 84 - 87ish mij e series Alot like this one only with 3 single coils and it's candy apple . Same bridge as well great sounding guitar.

This aesthetically looks great, all black PG and plastic and headstock. Very Charvel-esque clean look. Plus amazing Japanese manufacturing quality and great 'San Dimas' custom looking finish, dayyummn...

Man!!! Sounds better than any Strat!!! Great playing by the way!!! The sound of the 80's 🤘🙏😊

dude i absolutley love your videos !!!! i love the fact that you just tell it how it is and dont care about hurting peoples feelings :P plus i've picked up a few tricks from your videos so it's all good :P

This is the second guitar I buy after watching your videos. Thanks a lot for showing the good stuff. Anyway, I just got my "whitish" contemporary yesterday. It has the back of the neck painted black, looks exactly like duff's bass. I was surprised to see that the body under the pickguard is routed for 3 humbucker sized pickups. I had never seen that.

I know, I always look at your videos, I also really like the one you have in metalic green, I really love these axes I'm glad that I got mine back in the 80's. thanks for your videos they are great.

I have a old Epiphone Strat (yes, Epiphone Strat) from the late 80s with the Kahler 2700 Series trem which is so fantastic. It has an EMG 81 bridge, 2 different EMG singles in mid and neck positions, 1 vol, 2 tones, 5 pos. switch. I replaced the neck with an ebony mighty mite and boy does it ever play fast and sound heavenly for any types of metal. After I took off the trem and board to paint the guitar, I took apart the Kahler to clean it up...that fucking thing took me awhile to figure out cuz you can adjust the string width, move each saddle back and forth, up and down and make all these little fine tuning adjustments, which I needed because of the new compound radius neck I put on the guitar. Kahlers are the best IMO.

Hey, nice review, mate. Love those licks at 8:30. I owned and '86 Contemporary Strat for a short time, same green color. I really regretted my purchase after about a month and ended up trading it for something. I am now playing a '79 Stratocaster that I picked up about 10 years ago. That's the one for me.

Such a beautiful guitar dude

Appreciate this video! I had one of these offered to me in a trade. Guy had no idea what he had, but I did from having watched this video a while back. The necks on these are absolutely superb!

I think this was the Strat's best model year.

Very good review Scott

Yeah, it would work great on there for sure!

@SHERIFF8311 Thanks my friend. Yeah, that green one is a monster too. I should've picked up a bunch of these back when you did.

very kool Fender Stratocaster, thanks Scott

@SoAwesomelyFunny Very nice my friend. That's a great price. It's just such a great axe. So much better than all my other Strats. It's amazing how much they can differ from one to the other. But this on has "IT". Good luck on the auction!

@TOM47812 Congratulations! They are great guitars huh? There's nothing like the E series Japanes Strats. Something magical about them for sure!

@ravenshield56 There are a fair amount of the different kinds of the Contemporary Stratocasters, but this is the first of this one that I've found. Some look like typical Strats, some have those funky whammy's and some don't have a humbucker or coil splitting at all. So, this was the only combination like this that I've seen.

@worldcupkittens69 How much did you give for yours and will you post it? I don't see it on your cannel.

@GudmTH Thank you very much. It arrived with a broken string and everything else was pretty good tune, so I knew that some kind of magic was up. lol

Loved these abs awesome

@hansolo989 Yes you can. 100%. You just can't get those HUGE pull ups like you would be able to get with the body routed out on like the Ibanez Jem etc. Then again, if you pull that sucker too far back, you'll bust all of your strings at once. lol So, you can easily just adjust the 2 screws in the back that hold the spring claw to find a happy medium that you can deal with to split the difference for just the right amount of dive bombing and the pull up range. Takes 5 minutes to set up.

@Concerttwin You are correct, Schaller made pretty much everything on the '85 and '86 Contemporary Strats.

Literally just scored me a Graphite Grey Contemporary MIJ HSS with System 2 Tremolo. Finally, a replacement for the Lake Placid Blue System 1 that I should never have sold... :-)

@eddiefender100 My pleasure.

@bmiranda2645 You are dead correct my friend. This is the best sounding Stratocaster I have all together. Some have it and some don't, and this one has it in spades. So, this is a keeper and I'll be selling all the other ones when my "retirement" comes up in 13 years, but something that sounds this great will be one of the few I keep. So, it will be this Strat and my original, beat to hell pink paisley one and that will be it for the Strats that I'll be keeping. SUPERB!

@ravenshield56 EXACTLY, it sounds too huge for the sum of it's parts. This one will see a few gigs for sure.

It's a Schaller humbucker on the green '86 strat. Great humbucker cause of the single coil sound when you split it.

@SHERIFF8311 I just checked it out. That's the one for sure. Does yours sound that huge too? Just wondering if I got lucky with this one. I have a bunch of the '85 and '86 ones that had the variations I showed, I thought that they were something until I grabbed up this '87 and BOOM! It just fills up all the sonic spaces that the others leave out. I love that guitar.

awesome, I've got an axe identical to yours but in black. it's also from 1987 with a kahler bridge. you can see it here in youtube under the title "fender stratocaster contemporary made in japan" by sheriff8311

@joeydunno Awesome my friend. I appreciate it...really. I just call them like I see them. I wish more folks would do the same. Well, those that had any clue as to what they were talking about anyway. lol

Its a great guitar, I use it to play mostly metal

@123ihatethiscrap LOL, Yeah, I have 10 times more guitars than any store around here that's for sure. I'm going to have to get some more ceiling mounts to get more axes in that little room. There are 126 in there right now.

This guy seems to know about them, www.chrisguitars.com/contemporary-strat.html Looks like your 86 was a Contemporary Deluxe with the System III trem and fancy nut contraption and Schaller humbucker, while your 87 was the "lesser" Deluxe with the System II trem and more typical locking nut. They also had a Contemporary without the "Deluxe" moniker, and it had the System I trem, and no pickguard. They also made very interesting Squier versions, some with Gibson scale length exported here, some with crazy colors that mostly never made it out of Japan. brochures.yokochou.com/guitar-and-amp/fenderjapan/1983/en_05.html

Love this video! Wondering how you are able to date your serial numbers.. for my serial no. E515719 all the info online (including Fender site) gives a window of 1984-1987. Thanks again for the vid!

@stockholm17 Thanks much! I wonder what it was that you didn't like about the Contemporary Strat. I've got my 1979 anniversary Strat and it's heavy as all get out, but not a great guitar. I like the Contemporary stuff a lot better. Then again, I could've got a bad '79 too. Very low output pickups. I do like the large headstock though. Wish it was a 3 bolt. I guess I'll have to buy another '79, hardtail this time, and see if I can bond with it. Any reason to buy another axe. lol

@eddiefender100 They charge an average of $160.00 to ship to the USA. Not bad at all. It costs $400.00 to have guitars sent from England over here. They offer all wood types. I like Basswood just as much as any wood, they all sound the same on electrics, and the lighter the better. Of course, they still use ash or alder and even poplar if they need something with the grain showing.

Hey, i got my hands on a similar guitar to the 3rd guitar you showed, and i wonder what value this kind of guitar has? Would be happy for an answer! Nice sound btw!

@eddiefender100 The Fender factory is still in Japan and going as strong as ever. They still make guitars MUCH better than the USA models. They have never stopped making Fender Japan guitars.

@deeduncan08 I'll be more than happy to help my friend. If you have any pictures that you can send me to groovydjs at AOL I'll check it out and solve the mystery for you. There were a LOT of different Contemporary models other than the ones that I collect. Some of those have the normal headstocks and look like any other Strat other than simply the added Kahler. So, it could very well still be a Contemporary model. Most of them were from 1985-87.

@groovydjs Thanks for the information...!!!

scott, i found this kahler system, the 7200 series, it seems like it would fit on any stud mount (tune o matic etc.) im seriously considering it for my flying v.

Do you know what model bridge it has? It looks different than the Kahlers I see on these

@deeduncan08 You are welcome. I'll go check my emails. It's been a few days. I have to play catch up. lol

Can you do upward pulls with the floyds on the standard hss strats?

Hello, I have an I series MIJ Strat, at first I thought it was a contemporary, but it doesn't have a black headstock and some other features, but it does have a Kahler trem with locking nut. I've tried to do some research on what this is exactly. Can you help?

I've got a 1985 single humbucker mij fender strat.Does anyone know what pickup comes stock in them??

Then do what I do. You'll never break a string, you'll never go out of tune, you can put it on EVERY guitar you own with no routing of any kind and it works better than andy trem on the entire planet. That's right, it's the Digitech Whammy Pedal!

Hmm I'm not used to seeing a Khaled not recessed but then again I don't use em I use Floyd rose but yeah I love those guitars

I will get a single pup version one day 85 I Believe

@stevechance4422

3 жыл бұрын

I've got a pearl white 85 single humbucker mij fender strat!!

Have you ever considered getting a Fender HMS? There's a Black one on a guitar website I've seen for around three or four hundred dollars. Reminds me a bit of your contemporary. And do I see a Katana?

Greetings, this bridge can be adapted to an ibanez rg 350?

@groovydjs Probably a shit load of money to ship them over though....And do they use alder or basswood?? Because i think basswood is cheaper over there...

The locking clamp after the nut was a bad design feature of this series. They put it right on the HM Strat but these just look classier without the gaudy headstock logo. I had a HSS Contemporary Tele that I wish I'd kept.

Hi Scott, Have you ever opened and inspected the guitar to see exactly what kind of pickups came stock with this guitar/and or were changed? I read online somewhere that these came outfitted with something called a Dragster Humbucker, which apparently wasn't a super high output hum bucker. Another thing, do you find that tuning stability suffers after some whammy abuse due to the strings not being locked at the bridge, and the behind the nut Kahler locknut?

@groovydjs

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've had enough of these to be able to tell you that it's 100% original and correct. The Kahler is always unstable. Not sure why they ever made them non locking on the bridge end and of course....that horrible design of the locking nut behind the regular nut......always binds at the regular nut.

@av.av1234

7 жыл бұрын

Groovy Music Lessons That Dragster sounded great as a single when you split it with the coil splitter. How do you go about dealing with the tuning/whammy issue? Does doing big bends throw it out of whack as well? How do you deal with it?

@j_freed

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure I read that Floyd Rose or Kramer claimed infringement and made Fender change it to the '87 version non-clamping nut. So, the '85-'86 side-clamping Fender locking nut was Fender's attempt to skirt the FR (down-locking) nut patent, and Rose said 'uh, no you guys. You can't steal my idea.' Floyd sure got that one detail right, though and at least in any case the designer got some credit and compensation (either directly though whammy sales or Kramer guitar sales or "Licensed By FR" stuff that runs the gamut from excellent to very poor quality.)

@groovydjs awesome, the only flaw...iit costs too much

@groovydjs i have it on my digitech multifx unit i cant use more than ne mod fx at a time

@groovydjs Oh thanks for the information....Too bad the Fender factory isnt still in japan...My 1986 Contemporary blew my cousin's Deluxe strat away....lol

What sorcery did they pull? That bridge pickup in single coil mode actually sounds like a regular strat single coil...imagine if they angled it, it'd be perfect!

@groovydjs

7 жыл бұрын

I hear you. Someone actually made a pickup that was as convincing as it gets and nobody cared. Funny thing is.....they are still trying to make one. lol It's one crazy ass world. lol

@stevenshockley4237

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, that is crazy...you'd think everyone would jump all over that haha. Off topic but I'm ordering my Gypsy Rose in 2 days, really excited...might end up trying to coat the rosewood fretboard though...otherwise I really don't like rosewood.

@illchild316 You can get this whammy bar any day of the week. Don't destroy your axe. It's worth so much more being original and this whammy works every bit as good. I've got a few dozen of those whammy bars laying here. Papatom at Stratconnection dot c o m bought out every single spare part for the Contemporary guitars from Fender Japan after they quit making thing. So, he has them all. Grab one from him. He has hundreds and hundreds of them.

What color do you call this ? I have the same color in 1986.

@worldcupkittens69 I gave $600.00 for it about 2 months ago.

i found that same guitar in music shop buy my house and do refer to some guitar shops buy my house?

Its a shame that they took the paint off the back of the neck other than that really nice guitar!!!!!

I just saw an 1986 Met Green MIJ for sale but it has only a HB in the bridge, vol and no tone. €750 is that a good price? Ha! "I don't know what makes this guitar sound so huge. I'm not going to question it, I'm going to play it"!!!! Ho Ho HO!

@groovydjs Thanks man! I sent you an email!

Is that '87 Frost White?

@groovydjs

2 жыл бұрын

Sure is.

OK, seen another of your vid's with the 27-5700 emerald mist colour guitar. You seem to have the idea that the first number of the serial number tells you the year. So an E5 would be 1985, E6 would be 1986 etc..etc. You are not the first to make this mistake. Sorry to say this but it has no truth to it at all. The only way is to remove the neck and see if there is a date there (some times there is, some times there isn't). The part of the serial number that dates the guitar is the "E" which means it was made some time between 1984/7. Yeah it sucks. I know. Now, OK, OK I know what I just said, an E7 serial does not mean its an 1987, but it probably is a 1987 build, as the Kahler trem systems where added on mainly UK market Contemporary's in 1987.

I have a all black one with hardcase. Wish i could trade it for an Ibanez S570b skb with hardcase. But mine has this Trem on it : www.strat-talk.com/data/attachments/56/56859-fa88a922783df87f3392438f86bb72fa.jpg