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Post subject: How accurate are the serial numbers?
Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 10:33 am
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Hi Newby here !

I have been after a vintage Strat for a while and have the opportunity to buy one for a reasonable price.
The seller is advertising the guitar as a '1974' and from photos, all looks good.

The pots are week 37 '1973', but the neck plate serial is 357270 which dates this to '1972'

Could this be a '74' with a 2 year old plate?


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Post subject: Re: How accurate are the serial numbers?
Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 10:44 pm
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First, a serial is only one factor when trying to check if an instrument is legit or not.
With pics (or a link to the original ad with pics), the forum usually can help, at least to a point.

Second, even Fender tells us: "Notice that there is quite a bit of overlap in numbers and years."
For a 300000ish number, the basic rules are:
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200,000s to 300,000s...1969 to 1970
300,000s...1971 to 1972
300,000s to 500,000s...1973


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Post subject: Re: How accurate are the serial numbers?
Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 4:10 am
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The seller now says that the serial number he quoted was from a different '72 strat that he also owns and he posted the wrong picture. Now he sent me another picture with a '74' serial number on.
I decided not to follow up and noticed today that item has been withdrawn.

Here's the link anyway - Thanks for your help.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-FENDER-STRATOCASTER-1974-NATURAL-ASH-R0SEW00D-7LB-BEAUTIFUL-WITH-OHSC-/223491139424?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=BaYKlKSe6ZNnriA6xh6k%252BDm%252FZAc%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc


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