I spotted this online at Guitar Center Ocala which is only about an hour drive from me. I got off work early and headed over there to check it out and after sitting down with it for a few minutes, I ended up taking it home. I worked out a nice deal for a case to be included at a reasonable discount, and even got my hands on the trem bar.
This color is very unique and I’ve only seen one other in the same hue. This Model 4 dates from 1987 and has the JT-6 trem and an active JE-1200 mid boost circuit powered by a 9v battery. The pickups are passive, a J50BC in the bridge and two J200 stacked single coils. I’m not sure how I feel about the J50BC, it’s a bit thin and bright sounding without the mid boost turned up, but the two J200’s sound great at any position. The mid boost circuitry really makes them shine, with it turned down or off they feel like authentic single coil tones, snappy and low output. The mid boost is centered on 650 Hz, so turned up they really start to feel more like humbuckers and have a little bit more output, and lose the classic single coil rasp under distortion - very nice to have both options at the turn of the knob. This would be a great candidate for a bridge pickup swap, but I’ll probably leave it alone for now.