Was Birdseye Maple ever used on factory strats? I am looking to pick up a 77-78 strat with a birdseye maple neck with the serial number on the headstock. (With the fender decal)
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Was Birdseye Maple ever used on factory strats? I am looking to pick up a 77-78 strat with a birdseye maple neck with the serial number on the headstock. (With the fender decal)
Yes, they did, but not normally. Leo Fender did not like the use of figured wood & preferred plain. The use of figured maple became a little more common after the CBS takeover in 1965
Thank you. Do you know about the neck plate? The guitar I'm looking at has a four screw plate. Should it be three screws?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cogs
Thanks again.
77-78 should be a 3 bolt. All the literature out there says the 3 bolts were from '71 to '81, but I once saw a bone-stock 1979 Strat w/a 4 bolt neck. This was in the late 1980s before the current proliferation of clones & aftermarket parts, so I am almost certain it was a genuine Fender. It was a big headstock, maple neck, 3-tone sunburst body. It was also a boat anchor
Thank you again sir.
The 25th Anniversary Strats (produced and released in 1978) were all 4-screw necks and, as Cogs mentioned, were all boat anchors. Mine weighed close to 18 lbs.
My 25th Anniversary was a 4 bolt. Nice guitar. Perfect weight. Got lucky I guess. No Birdseye though.
Despite mine's considerable heft it was the best-sounding Strat I ever owned.
Just lookout for the Hamburgler!