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Post subject: What Can You Tell Me About My Guitar?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:12 pm
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Could anyone give me some info on the specs of this Stratocaster? It's at least 10 years old (It was my father's), and I believe the pickups were changed around a little bit. The top two pickups say "Fender Lace Sensor" and the bottom one reads "Seymour Duncan". I am VERY new to guitar, so I don't know much about any of this.
Has anyone seen a Fender in this color? It's a little more blueish than it appears in the last picture, but I've never been able to find anything similar. The closest thing I could find was what someone described as 'Deep Purple inspired Candy Purple', but I don't really know what that is.
Thanks in advance for all of your help!


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Post subject: Re: What Can You Tell Me About My Guitar?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:48 pm
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It looks like a 1991-ish Strat Plus with the bridge pickup swapped out to some kind of Duncan single-coil sized humbucker (could be a JB Jr., could be something else). I believe that color could be "Midnight Blue" which was kind of a purply-blue shade. It is also possible it could be a Strat Plus Deluxe - if the "Fender Lace Sensor" logos are printed in gold letters then it's a Strat Plus; if the neck Lace has blue printing and the middle has silver printing then it's a Strat Plus Deluxe

Check out Xhefri's Strat Plus website - the Strat Plus shown in Midnight Blue is pretty close to the shade of your guitar.

http://www.xhefriguitars.com/


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Post subject: Re: What Can You Tell Me About My Guitar?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:11 pm
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Thanks for your help! I'm pretty sure it's not Midnight Blue, (it's more purple) though it does look like it in these photos. The N1 serial number means it's 1991, I just found out. That web page you linked is super helpful, and after searching back to my (very) distant memories, I remembered that there used to be four pickups (the bottom two touching). That led me to believe that this could be a Stratocaster Plus Ultra. It meets all the requirements BUT the chrome. The locking tuners are NOT chrome. Since this is from 1991, it still has the Wilkinson Roller Nuts, so I was thinking it might not have chrome because it was one of the earlier models? It's definitely not a Plus Deluxe, because the 'Fender Lace' is in gold. This is all extremely confusing.
Does anyone think they could estimate a sell price on this? I'm not planning on selling it ever, but it would be nice to know.


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Post subject: Re: What Can You Tell Me About My Guitar?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:41 pm
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If the pickups are gold I say its just a Strat plus., Its not a ultra the tuners,neck plate, pickup setup,and should have a ebony fretboard. You still have a very nice guitar I have seen them on Ebay going from $600 to $800 all depends


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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:02 am
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choquette23 wrote:
Thanks for your help! I'm pretty sure it's not Midnight Blue, (it's more purple) though it does look like it in these photos. The N1 serial number means it's 1991, I just found out. That web page you linked is super helpful, and after searching back to my (very) distant memories, I remembered that there used to be four pickups (the bottom two touching). That led me to believe that this could be a Stratocaster Plus Ultra. It meets all the requirements BUT the chrome. The locking tuners are NOT chrome. Since this is from 1991, it still has the Wilkinson Roller Nuts, so I was thinking it might not have chrome because it was one of the earlier models? It's definitely not a Plus Deluxe, because the 'Fender Lace' is in gold. This is all extremely confusing.
Does anyone think they could estimate a sell price on this? I'm not planning on selling it ever, but it would be nice to know.


I agree with goodinbed - definitely not an Ultra as it doesn't have the chrome hardware or the ebony fingerboard.

Here's another thought - if you clearly remember the guitar having two pickups next to each other it could have been a Jeff Beck Signature Strat as they had a "Dual Gold" Lace Sensor in the bridge position, and they came in a color called midnight purple. However - it would also have a decal with Jeff's signature on it up on the ball end of the headstock (which is out of view in all the photos). If there is no signature then we are back to it being a Strat Plus.

It's always possible that your father had a pickguard on it that had a humbucker or a dual lace at some point before he put the current pickup set on it.


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Post subject: Re: What Can You Tell Me About My Guitar?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:53 am
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If it was originally an Ultra it should have an ebony fingerboard. Based on your pictures I would say it looks more like rosewood, so in this case it would be a plus, or plus deluxe with a new pickup configuration.

[edit]oops, missed goodinbed post[/edit]


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