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09 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]In '69 the production of the Stratocaster model resumes thanks to the visibility that Jimi Hendrix and other important artists offered by playing the Stratocaster model on the most important musical...

09 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Identical to the previous ones, the only difference is that the aluminum shield under the pickguard disappears, replaced by a triangle of metallic paper between the pots and the same one...

09 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]In September 1971, after the leaving of Leo Fender's staff to quality control, the first real significant decline of the entire production took place with generic construction modifications on some instruments...

09 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text] Practically identical in terms of parts and characteristics to the 1972 Stratocaster. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="37" down="0"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

09 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text] In December 1974 Leo Fender also ceded the legal rights to CBS and from that moment the new ownership will set up a totally industrial production system at the expense of...

09 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text] In this vintage a second string-guide butterfly is added to the headstock and the small number of pat.pend on the logo is changed. It also incorporates the standard production of the maple...

09 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Beautiful specimen "mint-condition" in fiesta red color ...

07 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]After a quarter of a century, the '79 anniversary was born, which was designed with 4 screws instead of 3 in production limited to 500 stratocasters in a unique ivory white color. Attention to detail, an...

07 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Stratocaster fiesta red embellished by me with the replacement of the green pickguard with a 4-layer celluloid tortoise from the same year. He underwent a small restoration on the body at the central pick-up. Instrument used by...

07 Dec

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1456153502843{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]One of the first "reissue" models produced in October 1981 by Dan Smith when the official production started in January 1982. "Slab" handle to remember the production of the early years. The fiesta red nitrocellulose varnish is...