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Post subject: Please help to decide
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:40 pm
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I am planning to buy this guitar, but I can’t decide if it is an America Series Stratocaster 2007 or an American Standard Stratocaster from 2008. Its serial number begins with 7, so it can be a late 07 or an early 08. The 08 American Standard comes with bent steel saddles and Fender Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups. In the picture I think it has the newer bent steel saddles but I am not sure. I don’t know if the middle and the neck pickups are the custom shop pickups and I don’t know whether it can be decided by the look.(it has its original Fender bridge pickup too) So please help me if it is an American Series till 2007 or an American Standard from 2008.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hysfdnb28wlpo ... 4.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ndyyvvq8g4n75 ... 9.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7dwjsgwjrv41r ... r.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c66a69cli7bqx ... 9.jpg?dl=0

Thank you in advance
Bruxi


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Post subject: Re: Please help to decide
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:33 pm
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It's a fake!
































Just kidding :wink:

You could contact customer services with the serial number, and they'll be able to give you the shipped details.

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Post subject: Re: Please help to decide
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:57 pm
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Ohhh I can hardly breathe now ... Fortunately I rolled to the bottom of the page . :)


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Post subject: Re: Please help to decide
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 3:08 pm
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From 2008 to March 2012 the American standards were not equipped with CS Fat 50! Those guitars were equipped with standard American alnico 5 pickups.
They introduced the fat 50 in beginning 2012, around March-April if I remember well, together with aged pickup covers and knobs. The aged plastics are good advice to differentiate a pre-2012 to a post 2012 strat.


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Post subject: Re: Please help to decide
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:48 pm
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It's a 2008-spec American Standard. Fender didn't necessarily change over the serial number decals on January 2nd of a given year anyway, plus with their production style the necks get serial numbers before they are shot with the finish so they are made up a bit in advance - at least by a few weeks. The 2008 revision of the model (and return of the "American Standard" name) was a very big deal to Fender; they introduced it at the January 2008 NAMM show and they wanted to have some stock to fulfill orders placed at the show, so I believe they actually began production of the 2008 American Standards around November (or certainly by early December) of 2007; with the final production of the American Series probably being the end of October of 2007. So bottom line is that the first runs of the 2008 American Standards were actually done at the end of 2007, and carry "Z7xxxxxx"/2007 serial numbers.

As guitarman1984 says these would have had "American Standard alnico V" pickups; they didn't change to the CS Fat 50s until March 2012. As you know it has that DiMarzio rail-type pickup in the bridge, and since that one has been changed you would have to remove the pickguard to see if the other 2 pickups were changed as well. The neck and middle do pretty much look like Fender pickups.


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Post subject: Re: Please help to decide
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:14 am
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another possibility - considering the bridge pup was mod'd - is that it is an '07 - with originally cast block saddles - with those bent steel saddles having been added as a mod. or, someone couldve dropped in an entire '08 tremolo assembly on an '07 Strat. all in the realm of possibility, knowing it has been mod'd in the first place.


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Post subject: Re: Please help to decide
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:57 am
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It's really a nice looking guitar. If the price is right and it plays and feels good, the mods wouldn't bother me. I'd would most likely buy it. :)


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