Im bored, EBay time, Strat looking thingy inside.

robgilmo

Does this look odd, to me it looks like a de badged Squier Series.


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Stratocaster-Mexican-Mexico-1995-electric-guitar-strat-red/333585013219?hash=item4dab3759e3:g:kdkAAOSwE0depgZQ

Strangefan

Anyone who takes a badge off a guitar is a fool imo

MLten80

That looks like one of the very first mex strats, I believe they started about 95
 The logos are 1 colour & quite 'squierish' compared to the later ones

 The necks are pretty decent from memory
 
 Fair buy for 200£ imo

robgilmo

MLten80 said:

That looks like one of the very first mex strats, I believe they started about 95
 The logos are 1 colour & quite 'squierish' compared to the later ones

 The necks are pretty decent from memory
 
 Fair buy for 200£ imo

My 94 Mex had a silver logo,


Its my belief that the Squier Series MIM had the solid black label? But the factory was all over the place during that time, having burned down and that.

robgilmo

This is a Squier Series.

MLten80

^that rings a bell.. did they say squier on the end of the headstock where the contour body text is on a usa one? Perhaps that's been removed 

robgilmo

It certainly looks like it, apparently quite a few of them became Fenders. But, there wasn't really a lot of difference anyway. Hardware was different, but they were basically the same thing.

robgilmo

Wasn't there a ''deluxe'' or something being made at around that time too?

Funkfingers

robgilmo said:

Does this look … like a de-badged Squier Series.

Yes.

The eBay item has a slightly pale rectangular area on the headstock, where varnish may have been removed, exactly where the MIM Squier Series decal ought to be. 

The budget Kluson-style ‘heads with the misshapen ferrules are a dead giveaway. MIM Standard Series has the Schaller M6-style Ping Well ‘heads.

HerrMetal

"Professionally reliced in California".  Bollocks. Rusty old bridge and attacked with sandpaper maybe.

DiscoStu

The Ebay serial doesn't work on the Fender site, but does on this Squier page https://www.guitarinsite.nl/serienummers-squier_eng.php
Same goes for the Squier Series headstock you posted @robgilmo ;

thermionic

Tell-tale Squier sanding-off and black Fender logo says Squier Series, but I thought they came with single-ply guards. The hardware and electrics were generally cheap end of Squier quality.

Funkfingers

As seen, £200 is about right. 

The corroded vibrato is probably a Sung-il with the skinny sustain block. Hence, no great loss if replaced by a steel block Wilkinson WVS.