Fender Stratocaster

This guitar is in
"showroom condition" and has likely not seen more than a
half dozen hours of playing time since purchased. I am the original
owner and received it as a gift (purchased new) in 1997-8.

It
still has the plastic pick guard protection and the original
"California Strat" sticker. The strings are original and it
has maintained the factory tune over the last +/-18 years. The only
imperfection that I have been able to find is a small ding in the
finish at the top of the headstock.

Also included are all
original tags, manuals, allen wrenches, and miscellaneous literature
that came with the guitar, as well as a Fender Gig Bag in like-new
condition. Standard shipping is to the lower 48 states (only) in
custom packaging to assure damage-free transit.

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Manufactured from 1997 to 1998 by Fender, the California
Series Stratocaster, were a joint effort between the company's
factories in Corona (California, USA) and Ensenada (Baja California,
Mexico). The body and neck parts were made in the United States while
the finishing and painting was done in Mexico before their final
assembly and quality control in the US. (The neck is adjusted with
3/16" allen wrench rod suggesting that it was manufactured in
Mexico.)

The Fender California Series Stratocaster guitars
have USA vintage style tremolos and tuners and other hardware. The
tremolo bridge spacing is the same as the Fender USA vintage bridge
spacing of 2 3/16". The Fender California Series Stratocaster
bodies are routed for a single neck/single middle/bridge humbucking
pickup configuration and have a polyurathane paint finish. They do
not have the infamous "swimming pool" rout. The single coil
pickups used on this Stratocaster model are Fender Tex-Mex pickups,
in the usual 3-single coil arrangement, or the 2-single coil and
1-humbucker in the bridge position ("Fat Strat")
arrangement. All Fender California Series have "Made in USA"
on the headstock.

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