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Post subject: Is this a real Fender MIJ Stratocaster?
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:58 am
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Hi!
So I've found on ebay a seller from Japan who sells used 90's strats with some very varying information on them. Some of them don't even have the serial on the pictures but have it in description - which looks suspicious to me.

Although this one looks fine (and serial appears on the pictures):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Excellent-Fend ... SwT5xZQewx
Is it real deal? 1994? Cause it also can be 2007-2010 from what I understand. There's no rusts, no marks of age. Seller replied that it's 1994 but I suspect he just copied information from guitar-dater-project without scrolling the page to additional alternative date of production.

Also I like this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Excellent-FEND ... SwkShZAFMW
This one definitely looks like 1994. But I asked the seller to take pictures of serial number and he said that it's packed for shipping but they can open it up for me if I really want to see serial on the neck.

So what do you think, guys? I know they're basswood and I'm okay with it for that price.


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Post subject: Re: Is this a real Fender MIJ Stratocaster?
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:16 am
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Honestly?
Unless you specifically want an older Japanese Strat (sorry, I am not going to refer to 1994 as "vintage", I have bottles of guitar polish that old) with both of those going for $500+ shipped, I would seriously consider just going with a brand new MIM model. Buying new, there is no doubt that it is authentic, and there really is no special value in a 1994 or 2004-7 MIJ Strat.

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