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Styrofoam · December 31st, 2005, 02:19 AM

I'm cruising ebay looking for a mim neck and see this.

I know a little about 90's fender strats owned 2 of them and ths isnt a mim strat neck. Stamp says its a 96 but the serial # says its a 93 and also the tuners are wrong for that era.

I'm wondering if this is like a 50's reissue neck from the 90's?

Any knowledge is appreciated.

Thank you much.

chickenpicker · December 31st, 2005, 05:55 AM

I thought a serial beginning "M" meant Mexico; as does "Made in Mexico", which is on the back of the headstock.

It looks genuine enough to me.

For what it's worth, I took my 1996 Mex Tele apart recently, and found that the body is stamped November 1997. Perhaps it's better to take date stamps as a rough guideline only with these guitars and accept that they don't always offer an historically accurate representation?

Scott S · December 31st, 2005, 06:29 AM

Serial number could be "MN54..." too -- the picture isn't very clear. Also, don't forget that there is time between the manufacture of a neck and the final inspection of the assembled guitar. It's not rare for it to span two years.

Styrofoam · December 31st, 2005, 10:30 AM

Cool. Thanks for the info guys.

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chickenpicker Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK Posts: 3,060 14 Photos	I thought a serial beginning "M" meant Mexico; as does "Made in Mexico", which is on the back of the headstock. It looks genuine enough to me. For what it's worth, I took my 1996 Mex Tele apart recently, and found that the body is stamped November 1997. Perhaps it's better to take date stamps as a rough guideline only with these guitars and accept that they don't always offer an historically accurate representation?

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Scott S Friend of Leo's Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: SW CR IA US NA PE Age: 29 Posts: 2,875	Serial number could be "MN54..." too -- the picture isn't very clear. Also, don't forget that there is time between the manufacture of a neck and the final inspection of the assembled guitar. It's not rare for it to span two years.

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