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Post subject: What series is this ?
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:39 am
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This is a video of Dave Murray's rig rundown. At about 4.46secs the tech says "Just a Fender ?????? Series"

Can someone tell me which series or model this guitar is ?

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?m ... mID=166186


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Post subject: Re: What series is this ?
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:50 am
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Perhaps he talked about the Vintage White American Special Strat with the original FRT or the sunburst Mexican Standard with the same bridge.

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The vintage white Strat had initially three SD Hotrails but recently Dave replaced the middle pickup with a Lil' Screamin' Demon.


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Post subject: Re: What series is this ?
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:17 pm
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probably a American Strat, and he had the trem and pickups put in


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Post subject: Re: What series is this ?
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:16 am
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It's that vintage white Floyd Rose Classic he's talking about.

The Lil' Screamin' Demon in the middle is a direct replacement, I guess... supposedly because the stock Hotrails was no longer working.

Another explanation is Dave was not satisfied from the results he got from that pickup and wanted something different.


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Post subject: Re: What series is this ?
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:19 am
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In the recording, the guitar tech called it a Fender California Series Strat. I'm quite certain that whatever you see probibly heavely modified. You could e-mail him and find out.

Fender does make a Dave Murray Strat, but it's a bit different to the ones shown in the video.

Thanks for sharing the video.


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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:48 am
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Fender did produce a California Series in the mid 90s.

"Manufactured from 1997 to 1998 by Fender, the California Series Stratocaster, Telecaster and bass models were a joint effort between the company's factories in Corona and Ensenada. The body and neck parts were made in the United States while the finishing and painting was done in Mexico before their final assembly and quality control in the US. (The neck is adjusted with 3/16" allen wrench rod suggesting that it was manufactured in Mexico.)"

"The Fender California Series Stratocaster guitars have USA vintage style tremolos and tuners and other hardware. The tremolo bridge spacing is the same as the Fender USA vintage bridge spacing of 2 3/16". The Fender California Series Stratocaster bodies are routed for a single neck/single middle/bridge humbucking pickup configuration and have a polyurathane paint finish. The pickup configuration could also be routed for a single neck/ single middle/single bridge. They do not have the infamous "swimming pool" rout. The single coil pickups used on this Stratocaster model are Fender Tex-Mex pickups, in the usual 3-single coil arrangement, or the 2-single coil and 1-humbucker in the bridge position ("Fat Strat") arrangement.

The California Series Telecaster model also features vintage hardware such as Kluson-style tuners and a vintage bridge with six individual steel saddles. Medium jumbo frets make string bending and playability by far easier in contrast to the usual thin vintage frets. All Telecaster bodies of this particular series were routed for a humbucker pickup in the neck position. There were two options of the pickup configuration: Either a "Fat Tele" pickup arrangement with a Fender USA humbucker neck pickup and a Tex Mex bridge pickup or a Stratocaster single coil pickup in the neck position combined with a Tex Mex single coil bridge pickup. The serial numbers are in an AMXN + 6 digits format while the first digit represents the year of production. AMXN7***** means the guitar was manufactured in 1997.

All Fender California Series have "Made in USA" on the headstock."

The one in the video looks to be a heavily modded one.


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