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The necks on the MIM Strats haven't been made in the US for a couple of years now. Check out this 2006 photo-factory-tour of both the Ensenada and Corona factories. In the first set of photos from Ensenada, you will see the Mexican Neck Factory, where the necks are crafted from raw blanks.

http://picasaweb.google.com/meridianmusicguitars/FenderFactoryTour2006

You will also see pictures that show that the Mexican bodies can be glued up out of quite a few pieces of wood. Bodies intended for see-through finishes use veneers (applied and pre-contoured from the wood supplier).

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orvilleowner wrote:
The necks on the MIM Strats haven't been made in the US for a couple of years now. Check out this 2006 photo-factory-tour of both the Ensenada and Corona factories. In the first set of photos from Ensenada, you will see the Mexican Neck Factory, where the necks are crafted from raw blanks.

http://picasaweb.google.com/meridianmusicguitars/FenderFactoryTour2006

You will also see pictures that show that the Mexican bodies can be glued up out of quite a few pieces of wood. Bodies intended for see-through finishes use veneers (applied and pre-contoured from the wood supplier).
You are correct. I believe the necks are only rough cut in the U.S. where they are then sent to the Ensenada factory to be cut down , shaped and frets put in place. At least that is what they showed on distributor tours a few year ago. They were just neck shaped blanks.

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orvilleowner wrote:
The necks on the MIM Strats haven't been made in the US for a couple of years now. Check out this 2006 photo-factory-tour of both the Ensenada and Corona factories. In the first set of photos from Ensenada, you will see the Mexican Neck Factory, where the necks are crafted from raw blanks.

http://picasaweb.google.com/meridianmusicguitars/FenderFactoryTour2006

You will also see pictures that show that the Mexican bodies can be glued up out of quite a few pieces of wood. Bodies intended for see-through finishes use veneers (applied and pre-contoured from the wood supplier).

i can ashure you mine not glued up as you put it.
what year is yours?

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You are correct. I believe the necks are only rough cut in the U.S. where they are then sent to the Ensenada factory to be cut down , shaped and frets put in place. At least that is what they showed on distributor tours a few year ago. They were just neck shaped blanks.


I am willing to believe that that maple neck blanks are coming from the US, but I don't think Fender is doing the rough cutting. It seems Fender's wood vendors provide wood in all of the rough shaped blanks, even for the Corona factory.

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i can ashure you mine not glued up as you put it.


Have you looked under the veneer?

It is true that higher end MIM models will use better wood, ie, less pieces glued up, so it all depends what MIM model you have.

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i can ashure you mine not glued up as you put it.


Have you looked under the veneer?

i have been playing and dealing with strats long enough
to know. what year is your MIM?

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i have been playing a dealing with strats long enough to know. what year is your MIM?


What is your MIM? A Standard? A Deluxe or Classic Players series?

Oh, forgot to answer your question. I don't have a MIM. I do have a couple MIM necks, which I love, on a Warmoth body.

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i have been playing a dealing with strats long enough to know. what year is your MIM?


What is your MIM? A Standard? A Deluxe or Classic Players series?

its a 2006 standard that i have modd.
whats the years of yours?

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Well, if you look at that picture I posted, that stack of 120 glued up, veneered bodies is from July 2006 and probably intended for sunburst MIM Standards.

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Well, if you look at that picture I posted, that stack of 120 glued up, veneered bodies is from July 2006 and probably intended for sunburst MIM Standards.

mines not a sunburst standard

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