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They are reasonable guitars but nothing particularly special. Gilmour's use of a '57 reissue from around this period seems to have added to the appeal.
Don't know the 'going rate' I'm afraid - though it's likely to be more than they are actually worth....
I've got a neck from one with pencil date of 4-83 in a Parts-a-caster I built with an MJT body.
Its got a very nice 71/4" radius slab board, extremely thin nitro finish which has heavily aged naturally. Headstock logo is almost gone too as it was never lacquered over. It's got the narrower spaced dots at the 12th which I believe came in in late 62? Gave me the ideal excuse to build a '63 "relic".
Neck profile is very like a 1960 Gibson, very slim with next to no shoulder. I like that profile and in fact built the guitar round the neck.
Headstock shape and logo script apparently are very close to '59 in spec.
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Good guitars but not worth a huge premium over later stuff imho.
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can`t be altered and rightly so really.
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I think they are brilliant guitars. I have a 1984 Fullerton built '62 reissue,and I think it is the best Strat I have ever owned. As someone has already mentioned, they are very collectable in the USA, and there is at least one dealer who specialises in them. Here is a link to one of the USA web sites. As you can see, the Fullerton plant also made other reissues during the '82 -84 period (Telecasters, Precision basses ect):
http://www.fenderreissue.com/
As for values, I wouldn't consider selling mine for less than £2,000. Here it is (if the link works!)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m199/jeffsilvaire/e8_3_zps54bb77d8.jpg