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Post subject: '97 California series strats worth what these days?
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:24 pm
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Thinking of selling mine but don't know how much to ask for it. Any help appreciated.


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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:38 pm
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If your rockin' a Custom Shop bass, you should know. $100 one way or the other is debatable. Intonation is NOT!!!!


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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:45 pm
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Sorry, I am asking what a Cali Strat is worth these days. I don't understand what you mean. Please elaborate. Thanks.


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Post subject: Re: '97 California series strats worth what these days?
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:53 am
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Thinking of selling mine but don't know how much to ask for it. Any help appreciated.


The California Series Fenders of that vintage are highly regarded. Unless you have something better in hand, hang on to it.

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Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:37 am
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In the UK they go for between four and six hundred pounds.
I think as guitars they are worth considerably more but just don't command that much money for some reason.
Hang on to it mate.

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Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:18 pm
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I can't see why they are that special- they are essentially a pre-cursor to the idea of a low cost american Fender.

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Manufactured from 1997 to 1998 by Fender, the California Series Stratocaster, Telecaster and bass models were a joint effort between the company's factories in Corona (California, USA) and Ensenada (Baja California, Mexico). The body and neck parts were made in the United States while the finishing and painting was done in Mexico before their final assembly and quality control in the US. (The neck is adjusted with 3/16" allen wrench rod suggesting that it was manufactured in Mexico.)

The Fender California Series Stratocaster guitars have USA vintage style tremolos and tuners and other hardware. The tremolo bridge spacing is the same as the Fender USA vintage bridge spacing of 2 3/16". The Fender California Series Stratocaster bodies are routed for a single neck/single middle/bridge humbucking pickup configuration and have a polyurathane paint finish. They do not have the infamous "swimming pool" rout. The single coil pickups used on this Stratocaster model are Fender Tex-Mex pickups, in the usual 3-single coil arrangement, or the 2-single coil and 1-humbucker in the bridge position ("Fat Strat") arrangement.

The California Series Telecaster model also features vintage hardware such as Kluson-style tuners and a vintage bridge with six individual steel saddles. Medium jumbo frets make string bending and playability by far easier in contrast to the usual thin vintage frets. All Telecaster bodies of this particular series were routed for a humbucker pickup in the neck position. There were two options of the pickup configuration: Either a "Fat Tele" pickup arrangement with a Fender USA humbucker neck pickup and a Tex Mex bridge pickup or a Stratocaster single coil pickup in the neck position combined with a Tex Mex single coil bridge pickup. The serial numbers are in an AMXN + 6 digits format while the first digit represents the year of production. AMXN7***** means the guitar was manufactured in 1997.

All Fender California Series have "Made in USA" on the headstock.


There is nothing that really suggests that these are that special, yet they are getting rather collectable..

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