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Post subject: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:49 am
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Hello everyone! This is my first time on this forum, so apologies if this is the wrong section or if my post's formatting is off.

I recently got a partscaster in a trade. I was told that the body and all of the hardware was from an American strat. When I received the guitar, I took off the neck and was shocked to see that it didn't have any of the normal markings I am used to seeing on a fender. Only real distinguishable thing is it has "A. Chavez" stamped in the neck pocket. I really doubt it's a true American fender body, but I just wanted to run it by other people with more knowledge on the subject, so that I can be sure.

I can't seem to get the images to appear on this post, but here is a link to them.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yc4crdl09ltk ... xx5ga?dl=0

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 8:22 pm
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Hi welcome to the forum.
You will have to post some clear pics before anyone could help you.
The latter strats normally have a date stamp in the neck pocket.
Pics of this area and shots of the body with the pickguard removed may help someone to say yay or nay. :D


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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:18 am
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I'd trust that body is legit - a Micro-Tilt™ four bolter with a swimming pool could very well come without a date stamp/sticker, and A. CHAVEZ would check out.
Giving a date to that body would be a lot harder, the routing and all hardware shown could be from a really long period. John C would probably know...
Electronics are partscastered, so no way to tell what if any is original.

All of the above just opinions, of course.

At last I found a way to embed dropbox images. Open the pic in a new window, copy the image location from your browser's address bar, paste it in your forum post, change the dl=0 to raw=1 (those are the last part of the address), select the modded text and use the [IMG] command. Easy peasy... NOT. :evil:

Like this:
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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:04 am
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All I did was right click on the image and selected copy location, then did the usual for posting on a thread - hit the reply button, hit the IMG button, then pasted the copied location.
No pain, and no fuss.

The body and bridge look to be legit.

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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:52 am
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stratmangler wrote:
All I did was right click on the image and selected copy location

I bow to the wisdom behind your solution. :oops:
(I'd swear that I've tried that but the evidence is overwhelming...)


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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:05 am
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Looks like a garden-variety Strat with a couple of DiMarzio's......no great shakes but nevertheless a legitimate Fender.

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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:21 pm
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Thank you all for the replies and the help :)
I've attached two more images below of a differen body and was wondering if anyone knows if this is an authentic Fender body as well, and if so then any idea on the model? Color name?

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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:25 am
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In general, it helps if you tell a bit background info - as far as you know it, of course. Like what (age, model...) the body is supposed to be, what mods/upgrades have been done etc. And: pics from the back, trem cavity (both sides)...

Anyways, the second body, too, looks legit to me.
The color... The computer screens and photo color balances lie a lot (just for fun, checked the R/G/B/H/S/L values of the color on these three pics, they are all over the place).
My first guess is #75, Midnight Wine. Also possible #66 Burgundy Mist, or #12 Candy Cola. And somehow, I get a refin feeling from the pics...
The model... Can't read the date stamp year in the pic, but one possibility is "Floyd Rose Classic Stratocaster HH 1106700/6702", from around the millennia change - provided that is an original (in both senses) FR.


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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:21 pm
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jmattis wrote:
In general, it helps if you tell a bit background info - as far as you know it, of course. Like what (age, model...) the body is supposed to be, what mods/upgrades have been done etc. And: pics from the back, trem cavity (both sides)...

Anyways, the second body, too, looks legit to me.
The color... The computer screens and photo color balances lie a lot (just for fun, checked the R/G/B/H/S/L values of the color on these three pics, they are all over the place).
My first guess is #75, Midnight Wine. Also possible #66 Burgundy Mist, or #12 Candy Cola. And somehow, I get a refin feeling from the pics...
The model... Can't read the date stamp year in the pic, but one possibility is "Floyd Rose Classic Stratocaster HH 1106700/6702", from around the millennia change - provided that is an original (in both senses) FR.


I believe this is correct. USA Floyd Rose Classics never had the recessed Floyd Rose that I can recall; they were all non-recessed (and when Fender does recess the Floyd they paint the recess cavity body color, not black). I think it was refinished that color purple when the Floyd was installed.


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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:06 am
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A couple of observations on the coagulated blood colored one:
- The edge of the bridge cavity looks a lot crisper than the edge of the other routings.
- The bottom edge of the fretboard looks significantly more straight than typical Strat necks. Without more pictures, I question the authenticity of the neck on that alone.


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Post subject: Re: Is this an American Fender body?
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:27 am
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Agree on the trem cavity edge, and with John C's insight on the FR being an upgrade - those together of course mean the body can be from any Strat model in the universal route period.

On the neck; this topic was only about the authenticity and Americanicity of those two bodies :wink: ...


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