Hi everyone. Can someone tell me watching the pic, if that strat is an original or a fake?
External parts , neck, bridge, tuners, the fender logo rear the neck attachment, seems original. But inside I can't find any fender logo ( I don't know if on pickup or pot it has to be impressed), and other, some solders seems not from factory, but a kind of bad works...maybe pickup or vol pot change.
Someone helpme, thank you



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Welcome.

From what I can deduce, that is the original pickup and the original volume pot.

If you look at the pickup selector switch, the pickup has been resoldered to it, same as the back of the pot. It would be my guess that someone removed that original pickup, putting in a different one and then for whatever reason, put the original one back. Obviously, whoever did it has poor soldering skills.

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Thank you very much.. you are great !!
So usually (never ogt fender), no logo or some label on pickup, pot and so on?

You're quite welcome and thank you for the compliment!

For this particular model, no. What you see is what you get.

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1. The pots are made by CTS, which are stock Fender issue.
2. Fender pups don't usually have the brand on them, but they look the real mcCoy.
3. I fully agree with Martian about the really crappy soldering job
4. What is also very obvious from the pics, is that the pickguard has been changed (all the redundant pickguard screw holes in the body). This would also answer the question as to why the re-soldering: . . . . you normally would detach the grounding, and output jack wires from the volume pot, in order to work freely replacing pups and pots in the new pickguard