please can you help me, can you tell me if it is original fender?
i don't know how post a pictures can you help me, thank you.

we're not going to be able to see a picture from your desktop. You'll have to upload it to photobucket or something similar and use that url.

Hi marygae: welcome to the Forum.

We'd like to see that guitar of yours, so if you pop over to a picture hosting service such as photobucket.com and open a free account you can then upload your pictures to it (not too enormous, please: it makes the pages here hard to look at).

When you are ready, go to your album in Photobucket and hover your cursor over one of your pictures. A dropdown menu will open beneath it and you need to copy that bottom line of code that you will see on it and paste it into a post here.

It will look like this:


And if you click the "quote" button top right of my post you will be able to see how the code looks when it is included in a post here.

Good luck - C

ok, thank you for your fast answer i post the pics, i'm from italy excuse me for my bad english.

[After pictures have arrived in the first post] Hi again, marygae. Looks very Fender-ish to me. The route is a generic Fender one, and those odd holes you see in the neck pocket and under the pickguard are used for positioning the body on the CNC routing machine (it has been confirmed).

That route pattern has been used on guitars from several factories (contrary to one popular idea), so we need more info to go further. A view of the end of the neck heel will likely show a stamp that will help date the guitar.

And pictures of the front and back of the headstock will be most helpful. There's some clever folk who can tell you stuff from a good photo of the control pots, too.

Lookin' legit so far... (Though the pickguard and control knobs are obviously replacements.)

Cheers - C

thank you, so you think is an american made body?
and how i can know the year of production, i buy used only the body and i use with it a fender japan neck 1989. many tanks for your attention.
ps: did you think the finish is original.

Ah, right: no neck. Then you are unlikely to be able to tell the date of this body. Someone might know when they started making bodies with those CNC holes, which will give the earliest possible date, but that's likely the best you will get.

It definitely is not dated 04 08 1962, if that is what you are wondering...



No, I didn't say that. We have seen bodies with that identical route from both the Mexican and American factories. I have a strong feeling someone said that route can come from other parts of the world too, but I can't remember where I heard that.

The route (the carving of the cavities in the body) depends entirely on the program you feed into the CNC (Computer Numerical Controlled) machine. Fender use identical machines in different factories: the bodies can look exactly the same from different sources.

The finish, however, is original. You can see that in many places, for example in the neck pocket where a router has been used after the finish was applied to open out the corners of the cavity to make the neck fit better. That black was the first and only finish that has been applied.

To my eye in the photos it looks like a polyester finish, and that would suggest it comes from the Mexican factory. But I am not certain of that.

A lot of writing for someone who's first language is Italian. I hope it helps!

Cheers - C

Can you post a pic of the back of the body with the cover off?

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

that's pics, thank you.

That body is legit. Theres no skunkstripe on the back of the neck from what i can see. That could be a fake neck.

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excuse me but the question is the body, the neck is a japan 89-90

Thar sure looks like a Mexican-made Standard Strat body to me.

Check out the bodies for sale at Pickers Parts for confirmation.

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My other guitar is a Strat.

I have a 60's reissue neck MIM w/no skunk stripe either.

Ah ok i was only saying. When somebody raises a question about a guitar body's validity its quite reasonable to assess other things attatched to it, I.E the neck.

Seeya round

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