Yeah but there are many options of neck/fingerboard then, i saw the maple neck like mine too

Yup, I found what appears to be your guitar at the Ishibashi web site: maple neck, same logo, plastic truss rod. It's a MIJ Standard Strat. Sells for 50,000 Yen (not a coincidence with the 50 in the model number).

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Is it a good news for me? So you said it is a REAL / GENUINE fender, but it must be the japanese market only?

It's whatever you make of it. I think the Japanese instruments are brilliantly made, and currently my main guitar is an '80s Japanese Fender.

It does seem to be a standard Japanese model, and if you browse the Ishibashi shop you'll feel slightly happier! They were sold in Japan but I don't think they were exported officially.

Just enjoy it.

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'01 American Deluxe HSS Strat.
'87 Japan HSS Strat.
'11 Custom Shop FMT HSS Strat.

"Without music, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines and dates by which bills must be paid."

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Mine is an 84-87 62 neck on a 98 two tone burst. The guitar came with schaller style Gotohs which I changed to Gotoh vintage button style machines. I also changed the pickguard to a three ply white with cream pickups covers and knobs. Its a complete mismatch of years, but after a fret leveling job,some Klien 61 pickups, and a setup. It plays, and sounds great which is all that matters IMHO.

That guitar is a genuine MIJ Strat, but it aint a ST-50 at all. It's from the standard line, nothing special about it- on the grand scheme of things this sits around the same place as the MIM standard line.

That doesn't mean to say you don't have a fine guitar there!

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Yeah, I bought from a trusted seller (I think), and you can say that it is a real japanese fender , right? I mean, this is not a unknown custom from nowhere

Yes, it is

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Yes, it is for what? For this is a genuine Fender japan? Hehehe come one, I need someone to convince me hehehe

hi , what you have is a japanese standard strat , i have one from 89 and it's a great sounding / playing guitar as i bet yours is so enjoy and relax it's legit, check out this link

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.blackman4/models.htm

and heres a wee pic of my 3 fenders , mmy standard mij is on the left , middle is a usa 40th anni std and on the right is a 1985 mij 50's reissue

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ah thank you for the answer, i just dont get it about the 50 after ST (ST50) , yeah, this guitar is good, everything was perfect besides this guitar has a treble bleed wiring and professionally setup, but the sound of this guitar is the middle of vintage and modern, i dont like this point though

by the way i love yer '85 50's RI, its so shinny and sexy

....and there is one that bothering so much, (everybody) said that R is a Crafted in Japan, so why this std strat japan has a "R" serial number whereas we could see in the headstock it was written Made In Japan??????

its so confusing

There's no difference between MIJ and CIJ. Crafted In Japan is what they were changed to 1997 onwards.

PLAY THE GUITAR ALREADY.

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'01 American Deluxe HSS Strat.
'87 Japan HSS Strat.
'11 Custom Shop FMT HSS Strat.

"Without music, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines and dates by which bills must be paid."

guys sorry for the off topic but i've been looking for ages... how do you get a japanese fender in europe?

and ill be sorry too, im not in europe, but maybe the best way to find it is buy from the user it self, even in my local music store dont sells japanese fender, or you should try to find out in a store which sells second hand guitar.
but the easiest way just buy from the japanese online music store