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Post subject: '69 reissue Strat ... skunk stripe?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:52 pm
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Shouldn't the '69 NOS/Closet Classic/Relic Strats have a skunk stripe on the back of the neck?

See here:

http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html

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Maple fingerboards, 1960-1968: available as special order. Different than the 1950s one-piece maple necks. These used an actual slab maple fingerboard glued to the maple neck, and no "skunk stripe" down the back of the neck for the truss rod.

Maple fingerboards, 1969 and later: Fender's maple neck changed back to the 1950s style one piece neck with a walnut "skunk stripe" down the back.


But the reissues don't. ?? Is the above in error, or did Fender make a mistake?


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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:16 pm
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That quote is mistaken. Fender continued making the two-piece maple fingerboard necks, without skunk stripes or headstock plug, into 1971. I have one, in fact. The neck date is JAN 1971.

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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:27 pm
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Cool. I didn't know that. Thanks. :)

I know a lot of people prefer the pre-CBS models, but I like the late '60's/early 70's Jimi Hendrix/ Ritchie Blackmore era guitars.


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