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Post subject: Strat California Highway?
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:17 pm
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Hi guys I was wondering if someone know something about the strat california highway, a friend of my dad says he has one of them, but I serch for that model or series and doesn't exist nothing but the highway. Any help will be great!


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Post subject: Re: Strat California Highway?
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:15 am
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I don't know about a Highway version of the California series but in the late 90's there was a California series of strats. See info below compliments of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fender California Series (USA)
Manufacturer Fender
Period 1997—1998
Construction
Body type Solid
Neck joint Bolt-on
Woods
Body Alder
Neck Tinted Maple
Fretboard Rosewood or Maple
Colors available
Fiesta Red, Candy Apple Red, Brown Sunburst, Black, Vintage White
Fender California Series electric guitars were produced by Fender in 1997 and 1998.

General features
Vintage style “C” profile neck with a 9½" radius.
21 medium jumbo frets.
Vintage tremolo, tuners and 4 bolt neck plate.
3 Ply WBW pickguard.
25½" scale length.
Fender Tex-Mex Pickups
History
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.)

Technical Information
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.

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Post subject: Re: Strat California Highway?
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:52 am
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"The Fender California Series Stratocaster guitars have USA vintage style tremolos and tuners and other hardware."

8)

These can be found at a good price too if you look hard enough!

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Post subject: Re: Strat California Highway?
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:36 pm
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thanks guys your info was really helpful


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