Hello all,
I'm new here, this is my first post. My name is Ryan. I got this Strat back in December and I've just been wondering if this guitar was an actual model or if it is just a Partscaster as it was labeled when I bought it. It seems to me that it could be a 90's 60's style strat. It's a hard tail and I've never seen the pick guard style before other than old Gang of Four videos.



The headstock just says custom body. Either way, I've just been interested. It's a great little guitar. The pick ups are Seymour Duncan Antiquities. Also, where does one find these types of pick guards for strats?

Hmmm... a "two knob".

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I prefer the Gibson style toggle to the regular Strat toggle. A noisey killswitch would be great...

Nice axe Ryan,I remember two knob Strats from the early 80's. Welcome to the forum................ Mike

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The photos kind of blurry so it's hard to tell if it is a 100% aftermarket parts guitar or if it has a Fender neck or a Fender body. Is there a serial number on the back of the headstock? Have you had it apart and are there any markings/dates/etc on neck heel or in the neck cavity of the body? The neck looks like an American Standard/Series from say 1995 or later based on the headstock decal - it's the "spagetti" type which was brought back on the American Standards sometime in 1995. It could also be a first generation Highway 1 neck. It would be easy to mod any 1990s American Standard or their vairants - they had a swimming pool route under the pickguard up until 1998 or an HSH route afterward.

Either way it's a cool guitar; definitely an aftermarket pickguard/pickup assembly - Fender USA-made HH models had uncovered pickups, 5-way blade switch, volume and separate tone controls for each pickup. Here's the USA-made HH Strat chronology:

1995/96 through June 2000: Big Apple Strat with Ducnan '59 in the neck position and a Duncan Pearly Gates Plus in the bridge position. Not sure if they came out in late 1995 or early 1996.

July 2000 - June 2003: American Series Double Fat Strat - same pickups as the Big Apple but has all the other updates that occured when the American Series replaced the American Standard.

July 2003 - December 2006: American Series HH Strat - now uses Fender humbuckers with the S-1 switching. Discontinued at the end of 2006.

At the same time I bought my MIM Powerhouse they had a Two-Knob Strat on the wall... a brand new 2003 MIM. Black with a chrome pick guard and chrome Tele-style knobs. It was really sweet to look at but was about $150 more than my Powerhouse so I never took it down to even hold it.

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This is not an 80s two-knob. The 80s 82/83 Standard or 2 knob had two knobs, the freeflyte trem and the output jack on the guard, this one has a regular jack. Looks like a modified strat or partsocaster

Could you post some more picts? Like the neck plate, serial number (or at least the letters and first few numbers) and the whole pickguard setup. I love humbuckers in the neck.... nice..

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I can't see the picture, but Fender did make a Strat in the early '80s with only two knobs and the jack on the top of the guitar. I actualy saw Rick Sprinfield play one of these guitars in a video he did. Do any of you remember Rick Springfield?

Paris

looks like an old american standard to me with a wierd looking 2 knob guard with a three way toggle Cool looking aged colour to it huh


Ill go for a mid nineties swim pool route strat.
No way would you get that bucker in without extra routing mods in a current model.

Actually, No. Look at the single string tree placement, and the 22nd fret. This looks like a '57 re-issue neck with a 22nd fret. strange... Now I think its a parts caster

Also an observation to note- this chap prefers Pepsi to Coca-Cola

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