I recently brought a Fender Strat from someone online. It was sold to me as a genuine 62 reissue. I recently knocked the headstock on the guitar which encouraged me to get it checked out. The guy who did the setup for me noticed a few things wrong from the start. Firstly the neck and body were dated 10 years apart. The neck being 2009 and the body 1999. The neck has a USA stamp on it but we're not sure if the body is genuine fender. I have asked him to find out from one of his colleagues and should find out asap. The other strange thing he found was the wiring was not wrapped with material like on proper 60's reissue pickups. The main reason this all came to light was due to the strat not sounding right when played above the 10th fret on the top E string. The tuning sounded flat even when the string was perfectly in tune. The main issue at the moment is the sound problems. If the strat comes back as real I'm not too bothered about the years mismatch as it makes it a bit different but i can't live with the sound problems even after a full proper setup. any ideas here would be much appreciated!!!!!!!!!

So the necks usually have "USA" stamped onto them as this does?
Never noticed that before...

To me that's one of the things that makes me question the neck - I've ever seen that on a USA reissue (either AV or pre-AV). The other thing that makes me question it is the thickness of the rosewood at the neck heel and the position of the truss rod adjuster screw - normally the screw located so it is partially in the rosewood.

Looks to me from the pics on the first page of the thread that the high E string is extremely close to the edge of the fretboard. That doesn't look right at all. Also, should the neck not have a 'skunk stripe' on the back (tbh not sure about '62's) ? As stated previously, the date stamp on the neck is not in the normal format. I'm very dubious about the neck.

My opinion is this guitar is not what you were told it was. It does in fact appear to possibly be a fake or MIJ guitar. That does not mean its a bad guitar. The aluminum foil bit is a tad cheap, usually sheilding is done with copper foil or sheilding paint. But after your tech goes through the guitar, checking electronics, dressing frets, and setting it up correctly, you should know if it feels and sounds good to you. It doesn't matter who made the guitar or when, it just matters how you feel about it when you play it.... From a short distance, no one will know any different. They just know it sounds great when you play it...