Hi I took my strat into the shop recently here in Canada and the sales person told me that the reason I bought my american strat for 700 CDN back in 96 was because Fender had too many mexican bodies and ran out of mexi necks so they slapped on American ones added american parts and electronics and painted em black or vintage white and sold them as "American standards" is this a True? Fender employees and customers opinion greatly appreciated

Actually my guitar is just like that... american neck and mexican body but its because I put it together
on the question I highly doubt it .....

interesting thank you for your reply any more replies from others or FENDER employees greatly appreciated!

I've heard and believed lots of these stories, all of em turned out to be untrue. I even fell for it when i bought my 95 in 95.

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No no and no

cool thanks for the info

Not sure. But... butt....

My 94 MIM strat is amazing.

My 98 MIA strat is even better and the love of my life, and the neck grain is better than custom shop grade - super straigher, very symmetrical, solid as hell, and very beautiful.

cool man I was thinking of gettting a new mia 08 strat are they all good like yours ? do they all rival custom shops?

Well, when buying, that story ought to get you a discount on a guitar!

When selling, that story will cost you money: "I'll only give you X for that guitar because that's a Mexican body."

Running out of necks that's a good one. All the Ensenada factory would have to do is wait a couple days for a shipment of neck blanks and then roll out a few thousand more guitars ....

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My other guitar is a Strat.

I have heard that the Fender Ensenada plant was assembling guitars with parts brought down from Corona in the mid 1990's. Basically, the MIM guitars from that period were USA made/Mexican assembled. I own a 1996 Fender Deluxe Fat Strat MIM that I love, and it rivals MIA Strats that I have played from that year. Who knows????

cool thanks for all the help guys I appreciate it

i think during this time the mexican factory had a fire and had stopped production for a while so you probably just have a fully MIA strat,i could be wrong though

thats very interesting. thank you very much for your reply dude

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2001 Agave blue
2004 Black with pearl pick guard
Both have maple necks and rosewood boards
Love em both

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The guitar you're talking about is a California series model. Fender California guitars and basses were manufactured between 1997 and 1999.

The series consisted of Strats and Teles with different pickup configurations and a Precision Bass Special with a P/J pickup configuration and a Jazz Bass neck mounted into a Precision body.