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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:00 pm
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Offset screws on the saddles?

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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:19 pm
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Good point its had alot of work so may not be all original hardware then but most of it looks legit.

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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:23 pm
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I really think its early 70s though or 69 chromeface would know.

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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:54 pm
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it doesn't have offset saddles, but yea the finish looks just like that Ovation, I will try and take the black off see what beauty is beneath it


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:44 am
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Bridge is hardtail like a '70 Fender .
1966 F serie back plate.
Neck is a 1966
Pickups look to be late 60. Not enoug photo without cover.

We need to see pots and switch and under pickups there a number, You need to remove neck from body to see some months , years.

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The poor and desastrous paint job is the same you 'll have if you do by yourself.
This paint is what anybody do with any spray can with no buffing , no professional work. Nothing to do with Ovation paint.

If this guitar is original the non original and poor paint job lost 1/2 of the value

IMO original 66 could worth $14K yours 4K ??


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:39 am
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Right on I was just sayin people were trying to achieve that look back in the late 70s with paint and why.
So is 68 when they changed to the 70s style decal on the large peghead? I know these 66 I work on still had small decal on the big peghead.

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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:56 am
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ok I'll post the numbers on the original pickups here later, the pots have been changed I believe they are much newer


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:48 am
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ok the Bridge pickup is 1459
the Middle and Neck are 2449


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:49 am
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PIckups need 6 digits . I don't know with four digits.

Look here;

www.strat-central.com/70sstrats/index.htm


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:21 am
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donnycraven wrote:
Right on I was just sayin people were trying to achieve that look back in the late 70s with paint and why.
So is 68 when they changed to the 70s style decal on the large peghead? I know these 66 I work on still had small decal on the big peghead.


Donny - 1968 is always the year I see cited as the changeover to the large decal. Most sources sources say it happened early in the year; certainly by mid-year there were no more necks left over with the smaller "transition" decal like the '66 you're working on. That seems logical as Fender was considering dropping the Strat in 1967, which was the lowest output year for Strats during the Leo and CBS eras.


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:18 pm
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That guitar has been heavily modified. We'd have to see pictures of it disassembled to figure out what's what and when.

That paint job is certainly not original (I mean, it didn't leave the Fender factory looking like that!).

The pickup date codes can be translated as follows (I believe): the first digit is the winder's code #, the next two digits are the week (44th and 45th) of the year, and the last digit is the year (1969).

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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:26 pm
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orvilleowner wrote:
That guitar has been heavily modified. We'd have to see pictures of it disassembled to figure out what's what and when.

That paint job is certainly not original (I mean, it didn't leave the Fender factory looking like that!).



Sure not .
They did not use spray can at Fender ; )

And they do not paint back plate's screws in black .


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:31 pm
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Well the link you posted is for late 70's I think mine is late 60's. I heard that the late number which in my case is 9 so that means 69 dont know how true that is


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:34 pm
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You are right , sorry .

home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html


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Post subject: Re: '68 Strat
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:28 am
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It seems like it had a thing or two changed over the years maybe even a neck

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