Hair metal sold guitars. Kramer, Jackson, BC Rich, they all made their fortune in the mid 80's. Fender wanted to capitalize on this market of course, so they had employee John Page create this beauty:
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| Excellent! |
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Kinda based off a strat, dual humbucker, funny headstock, its all there. The design is supposed to be based off of a Stratocaster with the contours cut out, but to me it looks like a BC Rich mockingbird you flipped over.
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| See? |
As far as features go it had an odd little floyd rose inspired locking tremolo, coil splitting humbuckers and had a 5 way strat selector. The headstock had a unique logo on it too:
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| Righteous! |
The oddest thing I found about these guitars is that, according to Wikipedia at least, some models were made out of birch. Ive personally never heard of any electric guitars made out of birch, and I'm sure Fender hasn't made any other high end guitars out of birch.
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| There is a bass counterpart too |
The bass version has 2 single coil pickups and is sort of a mutant jazz bass. The neck is designed for lead playing and is very thin. It has the same pointy headstock as the guitar counterpart. It only came in alder.
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| 3 pickups!? |
A 5 sting model was also released, probably very rare. This is the only photo I could find of one. Apparently it has a third pickup, and is supposed to have 5 tuners obviously.
The Performer series was only made for one year, from 1985 to 1986.
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