Fender Strat 1954 Serial # 100 - the first

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Wonder if that's the same guitar in the photo, my 10yr old ri looks more vintage. Well done preserving that one.
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Needs more relicing.
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If it were on the LPF everyone would be yelling "fake". Some of those expert vintage guys are fucktards.

This is quite a find.

A couple srping to mind. The old guitar teacher in NY who had an attic with a number of old Gibsons in it, including a '59.

The as-new '58 burst with amp found about 2 years ago...still had the shipping box n all. Amazing.


They are still out there. I'd love to play in that arena but the stress would probably kill me.....oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
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FunkUncle wrote:oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
Sheesh..... I need to add 4!!
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slowfingers wrote:Needs more relicing.
Yeah, imagine how much it would be worth if it looked old too!

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FunkUncle wrote: They are still out there. I'd love to play in that arena but the stress would probably kill me.....oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
I hear what you're saying but I wonder if you aren't already in a better place. At this level, you're not dealing with guitars; they are historical artifacts. You can't change them in any way, not even to make them play better; which you can't do anyway because you will diminish their value.

On the other hand, you take great old guitars that have fallen on hard times, restore them to health and set them to work making music which is their real purpose. I find that a far more noble and worthy activity than getting all Nigel Tuffnel over a Strat that was bought by a nonentity and then ignored for most of its life
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Thanks - and true.

Maybe a butchered '58 would do me....
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slowfingers wrote:
FunkUncle wrote: They are still out there. I'd love to play in that arena but the stress would probably kill me.....oh, and I'd need to add 3 zero's to my income.
I hear what you're saying but I wonder if you aren't already in a better place. At this level, you're not dealing with guitars; they are historical artifacts. You can't change them in any way, not even to make them play better; which you can't do anyway because you will diminish their value.

On the other hand, you take great old guitars that have fallen on hard times, restore them to health and set them to work making music which is their real purpose. I find that a far more noble and worthy activity than getting all Nigel Tuffnel over a Strat that was bought by a nonentity and then ignored for most of its life
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Bit like owning a Ferrari 250GT. You'd be too scared to drive it. Nice to look at though.
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Oh yeah, now we're talking. 250GT...I have a coffee table book just on that model.

I'd still like to play this Strat tho...and compare with a modern day one.
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FunkUncle wrote: I'd still like to play this Strat tho...and compare with a modern day one.
Got no argument with that! :D
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