Your guitar is a Highway 1. Highway 1 came in RED thin skin not sure of the shade. The Highway 1, made in Corona California came with no inscription on the neck plate no center hole. Don't worry it's American made.

Hi,
I just stumbled onto this but I have a 2002 HW1 Strat in teal green. I believe the color number was 348.
IMHO somebody might have made a typo because of the colornumber on http://support.fender.com/service_diagr ... A_SISD.pdf is 340 beeing Fietsa Red.
It might be possible this should have been 348 Teal Green
also see: http://www.musiciansworkshop.com/newstu ... ayone.html

Not to be the fly in the ointment, but Fender does not build just a dozen guitars in a week.
It's often that even though a body and neck in a particular model series are layed out to be assembled but instead join another body or neck, whichever.

Your Strat is real, put it back together and leave it alone ( as far as unscrewing and re-screwing the neck and body back together. )
I have posted it before elsewhere but it is not good for the tapped threads in wood to have screws removed and replaced unless absolutely necessary.
Each time this is done the screw's threads slightly enlarge the tapped threads due to the retightening of the screws by hand which results in over tightening, since it is next to impossible to determine proper torque settings without a torque wrench...

If the serial numbers matched, if inside the pickguard it looks like how Fender assembles their guitars, if the solder points are untouched and all the wiring is neat and tapped up and the body color and everything else on the outside matches the varying specs for that model line than there is no need to disassemble the neck from the neck and body....

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I'm not trying to be rude here but honestly...let's just spread the paranoia, shall we? Yes, screwing and unscrewing those screws into the neck is going to cause some wear, but come on... And using a torque wrench????? Geezzz.............

I can't fault anyone for being curious about a used instrument. Quite honestly I have a couple of guitars here where I've had the necks on and off literally dozens of times (including my '96 MIM purchased brand new in '96)...sometimes just to see what I can see. Haven't stripped a neck screw hole yet...and I've never once used a torque wrench on my guitar As long as you're not being a Gorilla about it, I can't see where taking the neck off occasionally, particularly to verify something such as authenticity or date of manufacture, is really a problem at all.

Again I'm honestly not trying to be rude here but honestly...if someone is really going to be THAT paranoid about something damaging their instrument, they best probably not be playing it to begin with, huh? After all, you might bump it against your amp and chip the paint or that shiny chrome could go all dull and rusty on ya. Best just leave it in a hermetically sealed bag so you can just look at it all day...

Just my own opinion,
Jim

The mention of a torque wrench was for illustrative purposes, not that i expect anyone to actually do that, however I stand by what I wrote concerning overtightening screws and thereby shearing the tapped threads...I have turned a few screws in multiple pieces of wood in my time so Thanks for your eloquent response..

Bravo..... You have indeed succeeded in being quite rude, not once but twice in repeating your " Honestly " banter.
Entering a Bumped discussion by portraying the previous poster as an arse is a great way to make friends on this Forum, you might want to turn that fan you are facing on to a higher setting....

Thereby " I refuse to engage with an unarmed man..."

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im a bit concerned the people working in the factory had to be reminded its a strat body

Well.... Highway 1's move fast.....

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And you sir have said nothing here to change my opinion in the slightest...or for that matter, make it invalid in any way. I'm sorry you seem to think yours is apparently the only one that matters (...one of the reasons I stopped perusing these forums to begin with).

The difference between your comments and mine (other than my obviously snarky attitude) is that you suggest/insinuate that somehow taking the neck off your guitar is going to ruin the instrument permanently and beyond any hope of repair - i.e. paranoia. You don't really say that directly, but you imply it like all hell. The fact of the matter however is that is simply NOT the case...again assuming said person doesn't use gorilla-like tactics on the instrument (if someone chooses to use an impact wrench on their guitar to go with that torque wrench, they're on their own, LOL!). I'm not saying that folks should just tear apart those vintage 50's and 60's instruments on a whim (although if you try and sell it, you can bet your bottom someone's gonna want to see that neck pocket, body cavity and the heal of the neck for authenticity's sake). And I'm not saying that folks should go out and buy a brand new guitar and just tear it apart right away either (although I've had this brand new Affinity Tele in the house for about a week and I've already had her apart twice now figuring out this custom pickguard I'm working on for her). I'm simply trying to provide some contrast and balance to your comments which, in my mind, give folks the SERIOUSLY wrong impression about what they can/can't or should/shouldn't do with their instruments. If someone goes out and picks up a used instrument, personally I think a good guitar player should know all they can about it...including what's under the hood (or neck in this case).

So that said, I stand by my original comment...old thread or not. If someone is really -that- paranoid about their instrument, best not touch it at all, huh?




As far as making friends on an internet forum, I'll tell you the same thing I tell everyone else; you don't like my comments and opinions - don't read them. I saw what I felt was a misleading, if not somewhat ridiculous comment (hence the snarky attitude) and I felt that people had the right to see the other side of the proverbial coin...nothing more. Learn all you can about your instrument or don't...embrace the paranoia or don't...doesn't really matter to me either way.

So why did you start perusing again...

Needed your Troll Fix...

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