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Post subject: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:35 pm
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So lots of nicer parts. MIJ neck from 80's
Body is weird, there no drill holes for the back plate.

Paint? over the neck pocket numbers and a big 7 in red ink?

Its really really pretty and light.

Im the kind of guy who needs to know what is this!!

It still has plastic on the pick guard and the seller said he has no idea what the body is but he put the nicer pups in and the neck plate says corona California.

serial number: (neck only) ST-357V
serial number: Headstock: Guitar Info
Your guitar was made at the
Fuji-gen Plant (for Fender Japan), Japan
in the Year(s): 1987 - 1988


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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:25 am
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Manboygirl wrote:
...Im the kind of guy who needs to know what is this!!...


It's called a Fakocaster. :wink:

That might be a Japanese neck, but I doubt even that. The rest is definitely nothing Fender from any country (at least the parts that you chose to show). How about a shot of the entire front of the neck, the entire back of the neck and the full pick guard and bridge? Those shots would likely seal the deal as a complete and utter fake....but, I'll reserve judgement. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:06 am
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+1...looks like a poorly crafted partscaster from those pics...body color & huge screw holes in trem cavity...hope you didn't pay too much :(

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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 7:34 am
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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 7:35 am
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danagos wrote:
+1...looks like a poorly crafted partscaster from those pics...body color & huge screw holes in trem cavity...hope you didn't pay too much :(


The huge screw holes are over the factory holes. It used to have a tremolo now it has a wilkenson bridge that does not fit.

The neck looks the same as this one, viewtopic.php?t=38486

I can now tell the body has been painted.


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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 4:18 pm
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hi thanks for all the help so far any more ideas?

I put more photos, is it just a re-ranch MIJ with a terrible bridge?

Funny thing is I actually really like this guitar and I have an ok collection.

Paid $350, the neck is legit.


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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:16 pm
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In my personal opinion the guitar is a fake. The routing in the body is not correct. None of the electronics are Fender. The pickups are a miss match of something I'm not sure of. The neck may be Fender. ST-357V is a part number.

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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:57 pm
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I also agree with other people: the neck look like an original mij neck, the St357 stamp should mean that the neck is "inspired" to 1957. anyhow back in those days they were mixing things at fujigen.
The tuners are also legit for the period, I have seen lot of mij with those Gotoh, even if both my Fender branded Contemporary mij Strats have Fender branded tuners.

The body and all the rest is unknown to me, for sure nothing is mij of those days.
Body looks like plywood?
The belly contour in the back side is too less pronounced too.
This doesn't mean the guitar plays bad so rock-on!!!

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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 12:28 am
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Quote:
mixing things at fujigen

Yep - there are ST-357V necks from the late eighties with a Squier label, too, quite similar to this one. And I agree, the neck could be legit - it's just that in this guitar, the body is such a mess that it casts almost paranoid suspicion on everything else... (That kind of a drill job is illegal, or at least it should be.)

On the pics: I can't read the markings on pots etc; or the number stamp on the neck pocket under that new paint - it might be possible to scrape the paint off, exposing the stamp, but dunno if it's worth it.
I've seen that "fifth neck pocket hole" on occasional old plywood Bullets, but it's no guarantee. The repainter might have drilled it for hanging up the body while spraying/drying.
The pickups; seems to be two (different series?) ceramics, one SD alnico - or at least, one with a SD cover; that paranoia hits again...


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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:32 am
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jmattis wrote:
(That kind of a drill job is illegal, or at least it should be.)


:lol:

The entire sordid mess (I hesitate to call it a guitar) resembles a crudely assembled pawn-shop con job.

If your wood-chipper is hungry, stuff that thing into the feed hopper.

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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:34 am
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Manboygirl wrote:
hi thanks for all the help so far any more ideas?

I put more photos, is it just a re-ranch MIJ with a terrible bridge?

Funny thing is I actually really like this guitar and I have an ok collection.

Paid $350, the neck is legit.

So you got pretty much total agreement on the guitar...


...just one thing left to do...



...play the ding dang doodle out of it and have all the fun you can! :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:49 am
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yes it plays nice but all joking aside I was looking for facts to where I moved on to re-ranch in hopes of more clear answers, like "what kind of strat is this"

Its a japan neck, on a body with some oafter market parts and a very bad bridge.

I have a $1100 aftermarket MIJ right now ($1000 in parts) and its a MIJ with every single part upgraded but the neck and body.

any way thanks for the good times?

80's legit japan neck with factory tuners
Seymour Duncan SHR-1 Hot Rails Stacked Single-Coil Pickup
Seymour Duncan single coil?
mighty mite pup,

unknown body and a weird tremmelo.

Ill post back when I bring this into its glory,

Iv alredy removed the junker bridge and ordered a 3mil copper pick guard that iv always wanted.
Shielded the cavity, installed a relic mexico bridge that iv had in the parts bin.

good times good times!!!


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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:17 pm
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I hope you weren't offended by the forum's comments above.
Keep in mind, this is the Fender forum. The standards here are strict; if you switch the necks between two US made Stratocasters, you have two Partscasters... And the characteristic sound of any wood species body with different finishes is a neverending "conversation". Etc.
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All in all, a guitar is judged on playability and sound by the owner, who makes the final decision on if he/she likes the guitar or not.
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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 8:37 pm
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not offended. the total of the parts are $$$$ so I got an ok deal.

I my self do not like reranch jobs because 9/10 they are bad jobs.
I also do not like cutting of bodies. Iv done it once to accommodate a floating bridge "Tremking"

Id never do it again but its a really nice bridge and its neat as hell and really widened my tone!

Well I had high hopes it was a fender body and i'm paint stripping the neck pocket to get at the numbers.

you know were not all rich so yeah I was hoping for a $700 guitar but all I got was a $350 guitar. ehehe

I really love how fender guitars can be personally modified.,


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Post subject: Re: Help Id this strat!
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:27 pm
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Little update.

$30 later?
I can see two lines on the sides where the guy who sanded it did not paint it all that well.
It feels flat, my MIJ strat you cant see that.

It sounds amazing, there is zero hum. My other strat has kinmans, My USA tele is stock and is feedback crazy.

Over all if its a parts caster then ill sell on reverb.com as partscaster.
Ill sell for what I paid for,

I LOVE THE COLOR

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