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Post subject: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat with Fullerton body shape
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:23 am
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Just picked this up, sounds awesome and nice to play. I noticed after getting it home that it looks like it has the Fullerton body shape. There's no date in the neck rout ... is this common?
Neck date is 4/8/87, Pots dated 1987, possibly the 12th week but it's a bit hard to read the numbers (R13787012), E40 serial.
Arctic? or Vintage? White.
Lots of pictures here:
http://s1378.photobucket.com/user/col32 ... 40%20Strat

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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 1:27 am
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Sweet. I have a black 94 (N3 13****) which is pretty much identical, aside being black, and I love everything about it.

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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:24 am
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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:17 am
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Congrats lovely guitar, I have a similar 1987 standard with the rosewood fretboard. Out of all the guitars I have played and owned if the house caught fire the 87 is the one I would try to rescue I think.
They truly are something special from the relatively modern era.

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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:33 pm
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Very Nice guitar. Is the trem block original? Looks like the later thin/small blocks. Either way it is a beauty, love the maple neck with white finish.

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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:10 pm
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T2Stratman wrote:
Very Nice guitar. Is the trem block original? Looks like the later thin/small blocks. Either way it is a beauty, love the maple neck with white finish.

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I think it is original, everything on the guitar to me seems original. Its the early "wood-screw" bridge post with the screw in tremolo arm. But I'm a collector but no expert...


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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat with Fullerton body shape
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:01 pm
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Nice! Fullerton body for sure. I have whole section comparing the Corona with the Fullerton bodies on my website. http://xhefriguitars.com/page2.html#C5 Fender used this screw in studs for the bridge up into late 1987. I have owned a number of these!

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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat with Fullerton body shape
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:39 pm
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Xhefri wrote:
Nice! Fullerton body for sure.

Awesome website!
Any idea how rare these guitars are?
Nice tone too... Do you have any info on the single coil pick-ups of this era... such as were these pick-ups used on any earlier guitars and were they the same from 87 to 93(?) ?
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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat with Fullerton body shape
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:14 am
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bad_strat wrote:
Xhefri wrote:
Nice! Fullerton body for sure.

Awesome website!
Any idea how rare these guitars are?
Nice tone too... Do you have any info on the single coil pick-ups of this era... such as were these pick-ups used on any earlier guitars and were they the same from 87 to 93(?) ?
Thanks!

HA! When you talk with the Fender guys who worked there back in the mid 1980s you will realize that book keeping was not their things. No records hardly at all. It was mid-1993 when they actually started computer logging serial numbers and production specs. Even in the early days of Fender's Custom Shop, their build log was simply in a note book written in pen or pencil, according to JW Back, one of CS's first Master Builders. He shows samples of those on his website.

I do not know much about the pickups of that era, but I do know Fender was bent on getting their credibility back after the down years of CBS ownership. So the quality was good. By the time the Strat Plus came out, they had a really well built guitar. Even some of those early on had those screw into the wood bridge posts, which often cracked and pulled slightly forward.

Nice guitar though. I bought one almost exactly like it with Rosewood board a couple years ago.

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Post subject: Re: My New Beast a 1987 US Strat with Fullerton body shape
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:02 am
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Hey thanks for the info!


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