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Post subject: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 6:13 am
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Hey!

Does ever Fender put tremolo cover with symmetric holes into USA Stratocasters?
Guy who sells that guitar, told me that his friend bought that guitar as new in music store in Germany.


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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:44 pm
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The "guy who sells that guitar" is a fisherman and he's reeling you in.

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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:49 am
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Retroverbial wrote:
The "guy who sells that guitar" is a fisherman and he's reeling you in.

:lol:
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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:30 am
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stratmangler wrote:
Retroverbial wrote:
The "guy who sells that guitar" is a fisherman and he's reeling you in.

:lol:
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:lol:

:))

Just to confirm, that's fake?

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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:43 am
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My guess on that one:

https://reverb.com/au/item/4237997-fend ... ratocaster

https://planetbotch.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... sters.html


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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:55 am
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Whatever it is the made in usa and the serial are misleading.
My advice is unless it is dead cheap don't buy into it.
Whenever I see "a friend of mine" "got this from deceased estate" "picked up this bargain at a flea market"
alarms bells start ringing. :D


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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:32 pm
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The neck looks to be MiM.
Body could be Squier.

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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:13 pm
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stratmangler wrote:
The neck looks to be MiM.



100% right


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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:54 am
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stratmangler wrote:
The neck looks to be MiM.
Body could be Squier.


My thoughts entirely.

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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:47 am
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John Sims wrote:
stratmangler wrote:
The neck looks to be MiM.
Body could be Squier.


My thoughts entirely.

It's a Bitzer

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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:46 pm
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Looking at the neck pocket and especially the something (Magic Marker scribbling?) around the center hole makes me lean more towards those early MIM's I linked to above than towards a Squier body.

What do you all say, does the body wood look to be poplar (points to MIM) or basswood (typical Squier)?
And can we see pics from under the pickguard, with pickup bottoms and pots?


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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:42 am
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jmattis wrote:
Looking at the neck pocket and especially the something (Magic Marker scribbling?) around the center hole makes me lean more towards those early MIM's I linked to above than towards a Squier body.

What do you all say, does the body wood look to be poplar (points to MIM) or basswood (typical Squier)?
And can we see pics from under the pickguard, with pickup bottoms and pots?

Middle holes on the trem cover are lined up, not offset.
Possibly Squier with an MiM neck and fraudulent headstock decal.
Absolutely not US, and the body isn't MiM.

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Post subject: Re: Fender 1991/1992 - Tremolo Cover question
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:13 pm
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Nowadays I've come to believe that the level-or-slanted trem plate screws isn't an absolute factor in determining Fender-or-Squier or MIM-or-not. I do think it in most cases applies, though.
I can't for the life of me remember how the screws were in the MIM "Traditional Series" Strats, but there was also the "MIM Special" Strat: https://imgur.com/a/ZNIpR

And having seen, played & setup my fair share of made-in-anywhere Squiers, that neck pocket doesn't bear the typical markers of a Squier.

IMHO, of course, and an alien-borrowed YMMV. And this will probably remain "not specified".

But what about the trem mounting screws and string spacing on this one, any measures of those?


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