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Post subject: This MIM has me confused......
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:37 pm
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Alright....so I bought a MIM Strat for 350 bucks....Good Deal? I thought so. Well, after looking at it...the neck plate has thrown me off. I've never seen a MIM with a neck plate that says "Fender Corona, California". So I took it apart just to make sure if it was real. Well, once I took the neck off...it has this white sticker with a different serial number then the serial number shown on the head stock. If anyone out there that has more knowledge than I do see's this post.....please, please, please hit me back and tell me whats up. I'm pretty sure the body is a real strat....but i'm starting to think maybe the body is just a Standard Strat and that the people I got this from put a MIM neck on it??? IDK. also on the neck joint on the body is stamped Sept 27, 2001. but the serial number on the head stock suggests that it's a 2007....so again...IDK. Anyways...I appreciate everyone that looks at this.

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Post subject: Re: This MIM has me confused......
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:24 pm
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Everything *looks* right for an MIM.... pickups, body routing/locating holes.
The neck plate could easily have been changed, I think the MIM models come with a blank neck plate (as do the current American Special models).
Someone may have replaced the plate intending to sell it as MIA at one time.

What bothers me is the lack of any bar coded stickers in the body cavity. It may be a replacement MIM body.
I'd contact Fender and run the serial number to confirm that was the original pickup configuration and body color.

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