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tbellamy · January 1st, 2006, 02:00 AM

I took off the neck to find out what year my strat was! The #'s on the neck are 0903 1823. The body has GABE,
GARY150 stamped in the neck cavity. It also has FRANK180 stamped twice. There's a couple of other things I couldn't make out.What does all this mean?The serial # is 418248.
Thanks for any help!!!
Tony

slack · January 1st, 2006, 03:16 AM

Fender neck stamps do not indicate when the guitar was made. In that era, not even when the neck was completed. And one has to consider the neck code in conjunction with all of the other date codes and clues available on a given Fender guitar.

However, the stamp you provided was applied on Wed, the 18th week of 1972.

January 1st, 2006, 02:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
tbellamy TDPRI Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 58	73 hardtail neck ?'s I took off the neck to find out what year my strat was! The #'s on the neck are 0903 1823. The body has GABE, GARY150 stamped in the neck cavity. It also has FRANK180 stamped twice. There's a couple of other things I couldn't make out.What does all this mean?The serial # is 418248. Thanks for any help!!! Tony

January 1st, 2006, 03:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
slack Friend of Leo's Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hollywood, CA Posts: 2,147	Fender neck stamps do not indicate when the guitar was made. In that era, not even when the neck was completed. And one has to consider the neck code in conjunction with all of the other date codes and clues available on a given Fender guitar. However, the stamp you provided was applied on Wed, the 18th week of 1972.

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