- offset double cutaway alder body, bolt-on four-screw maple neck, 21-fret maple fingerboard with black dot inlays or rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlays, small pre-1965-style headstock with black logo and two string guides, six-on-one-side tuners, vibrato bridge or six-saddle, three-ply white pickguard, three single coil pickups, three knobs (v, two tone), five-way pickup switch, jack angled into the top, chrome hardware, available in Sunburst and other custom color finishes, mfg. 1981-83.
In 1981, Fender hired Dan Smith as Director of Marketing, and he revised the Standard Stratocaster back to the four-bolt neckplate and smaller (pre-CBS) style headstock.