Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog. DeTemple Guitars handmade custom electric guitars. Grosh Guitars. Suhr Product Testimonials Page - Expanding the Experience of Tone! The Fender Stratocaster Handbook ... - Google Book Search. Strat Central - FMI. In 1984, a group of investors bought back Fender from the CBS company. They got rid of some of the CBS-driven 'improvements' such as the second string guide on the head stock (on most models, anyway) and the three-bolt neck with tilt adjuster. They brought back the quality and went to operate under the Fender Musical Instruments monicker. For about two years, only the Japanese Fender factories produced guitars. In 1986, Fender USA took up guitar production again. Please report dead links, possible copyright infringements or guitar-related info to the maintainer of these pages, Richard Karsmakers.