FERNANDES made the first RAVEN ELITE between 1999 and 2003. The Fernandes Raven Elite has a double cutaway maple and mahogany body with a bolt-on maple neck. The rosewood fingerboard has dot position markers and 24 large frets. Scale length is 24.75 inches.

Pickups are a Fernandes sustainer driver single coil pickup in the neck position and high output humbucker in the bridge position. These pickups are controlled by volume and tone controls, and selector switches for sustainer on/off, sustainer intensity and sustainer mode.

Manufacture of the RAVEN X began in 2003