These had serial numbers in the to 12xx range. Then in December serial numbers on Strats jumped numbers to the to 7xxx range. I am a private vintage guitar collector not a store , and you can contact me at cfh provide.
Back to the main Fender Vintage Guitar Info webpage March Fender Stratocaster introduction guitar specs: First Strats or so made have the serial number pressed into the back plastic tremolo plate to Serial numbers all four digits and starting with zero. The following several bullet points only applies to these models. The trem cover serial number models all have late May assembly dates and earlier. Introduced about late March Extremely contoured ash body. Sunburst finish very crude. In fact, it's a "one color" sunburst finish.
The center part of the sunburst is natural ash with no yellow - Fender only sprayed the dark brown around the edges of the body to give the sunburst look. This type of sunburst only appears on early Strats with the serial number on the rear plastic tremolo cover.
Volume and tone pots k ohms, solid brass shaft pots, usually made by Stackpole code Plastic white pickup covers and "mini-skirt" knobs have a marbelized translucent look.
Pickup height rubber grommets are often black instead of translucent brown. Thin "spaghetti" peghead decal logo, no patent numbers. Neck attaches with 4 bolts and a metal neckplate.
Rear tremolo back plate white single layer. Volume and tone pots changed to k ohms. This seemed to happen sometime in June Still solid brass shaft pots, usually made by Stackpole code Often a piece of masking tape is seen in the control cavity with the final assembly person's signature.
Most often seem is "Mary" as in Mary Lemus, a Fender factory employee Mary began work at Fender in as an assembler, eventually becoming a final assembly supervisor. Also seen very often is "Gloria" as in Gloria Fuentes, another Fender factory employee assembler. Neck is one piece of maple with black dot position markers. Walnut "skunk stripe" down back of neck where truss rod was installed. Single layer, white ABS. A small aluminum sheilding plate is installed underneath the pickguard that covers the control cavity.
Pickups have two very small "tits" in the bottom black fiber part of the pickup on the outside edge around the two wire eyelets. This Fender Stratocaster bears the serial number and a body date of April, making it the earliest known example of the model. Yep, this is perhaps the very first production Strat making it more than just the Catch of the Day.
Whoever winds up with it will have the Catch of a Lifetime. This guitar is from a small batch that was made in the spring of and it was sold to a store in El Monte, California, who in turn sold it to a now unknown musician. It only has minor wear on the fretboard and some tiny nicks and scratches on the body. The neck is one piece of maple with black dot position markers. Single layer, white ABS. A small aluminum shielding plate is installed underneath the pickguard that covers the control cavity.
Also, there is a very faint ring pressed into the black fiber that goes around each eyelet. These are marbleized and a bit translucent. This is seen mostly on the thinner plastic pickup covers than on the knobs, and the amount of translucency varies from guitar to guitar. Some pickups covers are so translucent the black pickup bobbins can be seen through the covers. Also, the pickup covers had rounded edges even when they were brand new.
Now the plastic is completely opaque, with no translucent or marbling effect the prior translucent effect is seen mostly on the pickup covers. These knobs too cracked easily, but in general, they did not self-destruct like the mini-skirt versions. And the pickup covers were changed slightly so as to have sharp edges to increase strength, but often the sharp edges would round due to player wear. The tremolo tip basically stayed the same shape for all three generations of Stratocaster plastic.
The Tremolo metal bar has greatly exaggerated bends. Steel 2 piece tremolo, with 6 adjustable saddles. Fender guitars has now also begun making the Fender Pat Pend saddles again. Also, the front edge of the saddle closer to the nut is shorter in These holes were deepened around fall to accommodate larger string-end balls.
Also, the side edges of the tremolo block were very rounded. This changed in to be less rounded. The fingerboard had a 7. Edges of the Fender Stratocaster headstock are rounded. This stopped by with the Stratocaster headstock edges becoming much sharper at the edges. Sometimes the under the pickguard route worm route for the lead pickup does not have the wire channel route until about summer when Fender added a shallow wire channel route in the lead pickup cavity.
Because this proved to be a problem, often a hand chiseled wire channel was added to the Strat body by the final assembly person. This is easy to identify as there is no paint in this crudely hand chiseled wire channel in the bottom of the lead pickup route.
This is most often seen in mid to late Fender Stratocaster bodies. The bakelite plate that holds the switch contacts has angled sides. The padded portion of the strap is rectangular. Purchase order PO from Fender Sales for about of the Fender Stratocaster, which was finished and delivered on October 13, After this point, Fender Sales a different company then Fender Musical Instruments handled all sales of the Stratocaster, and technically no units were available directly from the factory.
Pots are split shaft k ohms, usually made by Stackpole code Sources: Some of the information was gathered from my own experience while other information gathered was from guitar hq. No Comments. Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Youtube.
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