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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:07 pm
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BigJay wrote:
Oczad....you probably had one like this....

http://elderly.com/vintage/items/30U-15265.htm

I've seen one just like this sell on Ebay for about $580.


Yes ! good find. thats exactly it. i haven't seen one since i sold mine in i guess about 87-89.


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BigJay the one you are calling unknown is known but just did not have a model number. It had the TBX and the side mounted output jack . That is the routing that all the Contemporay's had except the 4300 and 4302 which were routed like the regular Strat's.

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Bump. Did you give up on your question BigJay? Still researching?


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Bump. Did you give up on your question BigJay? Still researching?

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BUMP!

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Stranger things have happend but I have always been lead to believe there were only 10 models two of which are Standards 22's (2 Fingerboard numbers) same guitar. The other eight used the same neck (black Headstock) and output jacks on the side. Of those they all have TBX except single Hbucker and double Hbucker versions. The Japenese models are fairly well documented as to what was. Fender was trying to match there quality at the time. Yamano and Kanda were the distributers and Fijigen made them along with Atlansia who made many of the necks. Somtimes I think some if these things get into places like Wiki because someone enters it because they have one but who knows if it a hybrid or a Heinz 57 put together by someone 20 years ago. :? I have read many books on these and thats what I believe but who no's. Now days documentation means everything as to the provinance of things.

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CV...you could be correct. However, I'd say the coincidence is too strong to be chance. I've had the guitar worked over by a professional tech. As far as Im concerned after talking to him, it is OEM. He certainly didnt suggest its been modified.

My Contemporary is a 1986 E-series, serial #E601085. Its the HSS. It has the TBX system, the 5-position switch but no humbucker bleed-off toggle, one volume and one tone, the System 1 tremolo, 3-hex locking nut, black neck and body-side jack. The neck is rosewood and has 22 frets.

I also have the original Fender documentation, including the original issue hard copy owners manual (not the PDF from Fender.com). This owners manual lists all versions of Contemporary Strats, including all their features.

This guitar is exactly what is described as the "unknown model".

Im going to figure this out if I have to pay somebody to contact Fender Japan.

Having paper work helps because now days you can buy every stock Fender part there is seperate and put them together and make a guitar were its all fender. Plus as you no a good many of us could do it where people would not no whether its a Fender made guitar or a parts caster if its all fender pieces.

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I'm late to this party: just in case you've not seen it BigJay I'll offer you this website, which is handy for Japanese models:

http://freespace.virgin.net/john.blackman4/models.htm

Somewhere on that website the gentleman remarks that in manufacture of some of the Japanese models, "...there appears to have been a lot of mixing and matching of parts..."

On the other hand, in places I also notice him making the common confusion between Schaller and Kahler bridges. So what he says may or may not be of use...

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BigJay wrote:
Hi Ceri...yes....I've been on this site.


OK. And at the risk of taking coals to Newcastle, have you seen this page on the System I trem? He mentions seven models that used that specific bridge - but doesn't name them, frustratingly:

http://www.wammiworld.com/system%201%20history.html

Ultimately though, it's perfectly imaginable that yours is simply one of many similar models that has just had a different version of the bridge installed in. A banally prosaic matter of what was in stock in the factory that day. Who knows?

Cheers - C


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