Well now I'm more lost than before, is there any way that Fender say something, because you send some pictures Gibson answer you in a couple of days.

Hi

Fender usually take a few days to reply, not sure about the email address you used originally but if you send the serial etc to consumerrelations@fender.com they should be able to supply some info.


Let us know what they say

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ukraider
"money cant buy you love but it can buy guitars!!!!!!"

I'll try to send it to this address, send it to the other direction because it was the area of my country Spain

That humbucker route is terrible not factory.

This sounds a good theory to me. The serial number tallies with the dates on the neck and in the pocket, so that helps.

joselgm, if you send an enquiry to the address ukraider gave and include a link to this thread Rob Schwarz may post here to clear up the mystery.

Good luck - C

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Looks just like the routing on my highway one.

also looking closer at the edges of the neck pocket, it appears to have been honey blonde at one point.


so i am confident it is a nitro stripped 2003 highway one with different hardware and possibly different electronics. definitely not the original pickguard, cap and ground wire
http://www.electric-guitar-info.com/fen ... y-one.html

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Yeah, I have sent, I have sent the photos too, when answered will tell you.
thanks

Well, do not answer the Fender, nor any administrator who also have asked him, the truth is that not where to ask.

Certainly fits the part of a refinished highway 1. The part # on the hang tag even agrees with a honey blonde highway 1 - which I realize can be faked, but it seems like a lot of effort to go through, especially when the color in the part# doesn't agree with the guitar itself.

I'd go out on a limb and say it's a real Highway 1 that someone stripped the color off and installed a cheap low quality gold hardware package on (see junky looking saddles with finish wearing off when your hand would rest and coming off and poor fitting tuners)

I'd equate it to a perfectly good Honda Civic that's been painted flat black and had huge awful looking chrome wheels and a giant useless spoiler put on the trunk (though this analogy may not work in Spain)

This guitar acquired a Fender American Standard, not a Highway

Not sure I understand what you mean.

An American standard would have a 2 point bridge and micro-tilt neck adjustment. Yours has neither.

I acquired this guitar, thought it was an american Standard as seen on the neck serial number belongs to an American Standard, but the body is what made ​​me think it was not an original standard

Sure it is not an American Standard.

That was the greatest of my fears

No, it is not an American Standard. Highway 1s use the same serial number format and the early versions made until 2006 had the same small headstock as the American Standard. Well, technically in 2003 it was the "American Series", not the "American Standard" at that time frame.

I take it that Fender did not reply to your emails sent to consumerrelations@fender.com?