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Post subject: 1963 Stratocaster
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:29 am
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I need help identifying what color my strat used to be. Right now it’s brown, the person I got it from said it used to be white. Now some brown is flaking off in the body date / tremolo spring area and it is the same yellow as a sunburst. Can anyone help identify what color it used to be?


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Post subject: Re: 1963 Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 2:53 am
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No picture , no serial number, nothing :shock:

How can we help you ? :lol:


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Post subject: Re: 1963 Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:08 am
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And this is the "vintage AMPLIFIERS" page...

In the early '60s, Fender dipped all Strat bodies in the yellow base dye. Then they sprayed on the Fullerplast sealer coat.

For sunbursts they'd then spray red and black around the edges and then a clear top coat. So the yellow color in the center was actually under the finish.

Since sunburst was the standard color and the vast majority of Strats were sunburst, they just prepped all the bodies with the yellow dye. When they had orders for custom colors they just sprayed the yellow dyed bodies.

Fullerplast is a conversion varnish, similar to poly. The paint strippers that remove nitro don't melt Fullerplast. And it's tough and strong. So even if the original white was sanded off instead of chemically stripped, they probably stopped at the Fullerplast and used it as the basecoat for the brown refinish.

If the brown is flaking off, it's probably nitro or acrylic. So probably melted into any remnants of the original finish. And so, unlikely to find any traces of the original.

If you want to restore it to its original color and have been told it was originally white, you might as well go with white.

But any refinish is lower value than the original finish. And any refinish in a color that was offered in '63 is worth more than a flaking non'63 brown.

So I wouldn't feel limited to a white refinish. Whatever '63 color makes you happy should be fine.


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Post subject: Re: 1963 Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:12 am
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strayedstrater wrote:
And this is the "vintage AMPLIFIERS" page...
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