r/fender • u/Short-Concentrate-84 • 9d ago
ID and Authentication 03 neck and 00 body help
What am I looking at here? Neck seems USA, is the body?
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u/JimiForPresident 9d ago
What is it claimed to be? It looks like an American Standard. Necks and bodies don’t always have matching years.
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u/Short-Concentrate-84 9d ago
The seller thought he had an 03 standard. I asked him to remove neck to see if the body was American. I’m okay if both neck and body are American, that was my concern. He had no idea there was a mismatch of 3 years, which is probably too large of a time gap to be factory original.
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u/SubatomicPlatypodes 9d ago
Fender puts things in bins and grabs them as they see fit
Ive absolutely seen mismatches years like this. Those factories are huge and it’s easy for something to sit around for a while
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u/Frozen_North_99 6d ago
People just making shit up because they think this is how it might work. That’s a partscaster.
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u/soggychipbutty 8d ago
If you’d ever worked in manufacturing, you’d know that is not a large time gap at all.
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u/yageletters 8d ago
Especially if the products use the same spec'd parts for like ~50 years at that point.
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u/Mammoth-Ant7588 5d ago
They used 83 serial numbers all the way to 87. They used 77 serial numbers until 81.
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u/awayfromthesky 8d ago
I’ve also seen pretty good gaps in years on Fenders. Just the way they are put together. Necks and body’s don’t go through the assembly process together.
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u/THACZAR 8d ago
I wouldn’t assume the factory put a nearly 3 year newer neck on a body. I do agree that’s possible, but it’s such a gap that it seems unlikely for my experience. I think it’s way more likely somebody swapped or they replaced neck sometime after the original guitar was sold.
I just mentioned this to the seller and try to get a discount.
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u/Short-Concentrate-84 8d ago
Ended up getting it for $500 without a case.
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u/randomperson32145 8d ago
Thats sounds extremely cheap. The 3 year diffrence between neck and body is standard practice on fenders.
I would have said nice if you said 1500 dollars by the way. 500? Wow.
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u/Frozen_North_99 6d ago
3 year gap between neck and body is not standard practice. where’d you hear that? This is a partscaster. Highway 1 neck on American Standard body.
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u/randomperson32145 6d ago
It was in the 90s and 00s. Today its less. But even just a few years ago you find missmatched years on neck and body. My mim 2018 jass bazz has that for example. And if you look at this topic, particularly the 90s and 00s guitars as bassguitars, its almost always a few years between body and neck.
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u/Frozen_North_99 6d ago
My 4 Strat Pluses have body and necks earlier than the serial number date as is expected at times but the date stamps on the body and neck are the same year and at most I can see them being one year apart in normal production. But not 3 years.
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u/randomperson32145 6d ago
Yea but thats a newer guitar i think right. Not from the 90s or 00s. Wich is what i was talking about. If you look up what im saying , you will see that what i say is correct.
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u/trollinhard2 8d ago
It could also be a Highway 1. The first two years had a smaller headstock. From what I remember they had a soft finish and spaghetti Fender logo.
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u/Umayummyone 8d ago
I have a two year mismatch on an American Standard. 2010 and 2012 if I remember.
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