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Post subject: gold neck plates
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:12 am
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When were gold neck plates used on vintage guitars?


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Post subject: Re: gold neck plates
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:40 am
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Gold neck plates only used on guitars with all gold hardware, so when did Fender start offerring the special order option of all gold hardware?

Just to start ...... I have a 63 CAR Jazzmaster with all gold hardware, so it's late 1963 for starters.


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Post subject: Re: gold neck plates
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:26 am
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Seems like I've seen a few photos of mid-50s Strats with gold hardware - particularly those "mary kaye" trans white-blonde Strat. I suspect they started somewhere between 1955 and 1957.


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Post subject: Re: gold neck plates
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:21 pm
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According to A. R. Duchossoir book on Stratocasters, gold plating was used from the very beginning of Strat production with the Mary Kay Finishes, and then in February of 1957 it became an official option for $330 with 14 Karat gold on the Mary Kay finishes.

Wow how would you like to buy a Mary Kay for $330 :?: I hope I live long enough to see them invent time travel, so I can take that quick trip to 1957 and pick me up a brand new Strat in sunburst with gold hardware :mrgreen:

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