Hopefully my search is over, after spending the past few weeks searching for my ideal Black Strat and much appreocation to all the posters here on Fender forum for your help, hopefully I have found the guitar. If your opinions are all good on the following, then I shall go ahead and buy the guitar. Let me know if all looks in place, to me I can't see anything out of it not being a MIM Fender 50th Anniversary Strat.

http://s834.photobucket.com/albums/zz26 ... ackie3.jpg

http://s834.photobucket.com/albums/zz26 ... ackie4.jpg

http://s834.photobucket.com/albums/zz26 ... ackie1.jpg

http://s834.photobucket.com/albums/zz26 ... ackie2.jpg

That looks like a mim squier series strat to. I'm on my phone so can't see the pics that great but tuners and logo should be different and probably the bridge. I couldn't really see the bridge.

Definitely MIM Squire Series Strat, probably a late 1995. The cheap tuning pegs and Black script are dead givaways. Aside from the tuning pegs these Squire Series Strats are awesome. A true players guitar with rich deep sound. Watch out for the Korean Strats that say FENDER in silver which are nowhere near the quality and sound of yours.

Thanks for all the replies and input, have passed on this guitar since I'm not after a Squier Strat. I'll continue looking...

It's a fender, not a squier.

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It's a fender, not a squier.[/quote}
Exactly.
First,It says Fender on the headstock, not Squier. AFAIK, Squiers are made in Korea, not Mexico. It's a MIM Fender Standard Strat.

It's a fender, and a squier.

Here's a pic of a MIM Squier headstock



And here's a MIM Standard Strat headstock

Actually Squiers were made in Mexico, and have been made in Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, China, and Even the USA at one point. There's not much difference between the MIM Squiers, 90s MIM and Fender Squier Series MIMs. The MIM Squiers and Fender Squier Series just had cheaper import hardware than the 90s MIM standard, but it isn't like the 90s MIM hardware is spectacular stuff anyway.

And that proves what exactly? I've had one (my main gig guitar) for fifteen years now. The bodies and necks were cut in corona as the Ensenada plant didnt have the capabilities to cut them at the time. The pickups used 2 thin ceramic bar magnets, exactly the same as the MIM standard not the single fat ceramic bar magnet of squiers at the time. The body is strat sized not squier sized (slightly smaller Squier pickguards dont fit Fender guitars. The trem pots and switch were squier items.
Even when they were advertized the slogan was 'A genuine Fender Strat for under £200'.

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Actually thats not an MIM Squier that is a Fender Squier Series, MIM Squiers looked like this:



The OP's guitar is a Squier Series, usually people just sanded off the "Squier Series " part

I can already see this is going the wrong way.

I'm just pointing out it's a squier series strat, and not a Standard Strat as someone else said. Excuse me if I'm out of place for doing so.

No you are not out of place. I saw you had typed MIM Squier in your photo cap when that is a Fender Squier Series. I was just saying there were MIM Squiers, MIM Fender Squier Series, and MIM Fender Standards all out at the same time.

Yeas As far as I know There was Fender Standard MiM, Fender Squier Series ( same material but chiper hardware) and chipest Squier Mim by Fender I have to read about this actually three month anyway.
I have questions too.
I find some mysterious :
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

I bought this axe last week and there is Floyd Rose II tremolo system, on the back of head stock is 50th anniversary stamp and serial nr is MN5194072 also coming with Mightymite pickups HSS. The problem is as I dont have any idea what it is? When I buy I tough is maybe Richie Sambora strat but now dont know. Please help as it dont have orginal tremolo cover, whammy bar and whammy bar socket and I dont know where I cant look for it and also whitch model
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This may can help, thats all what Ive got
http://www.instrumentpro.com/image.php? ... 533034352b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nyRfZMXa8

I've got a flamed Fender Japan "Squier Series" Strat in my collection w/ a Floyd Rose set -up.

Like Nikki says - there's nothing "Squire" about it except the decal on the headstock. To me, the build quality is identical to the Japanese Strats of the time.

I think it's kinda cool - I haven't seen too many of them. I think forumite Blertles is a fan of the Fender Japan Squier Series Strats as well.

RickyD

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