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1964 Fender Stratocaster Fiesta Red 100%

DEVILBAT

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I've always been a Gibson guy. I've had at least one Les Paul, one TV Model Junior and one mono 59-60 ES-355 in my arsenal since 1979. They have and will continue to do the job for me as long as I am playing guitar. However, there are a few Fender models I've always liked, 1954- 1966 stratocasters, '52-'66 Esquires/Telecasters, and a very strange obsession with custom colour Mustang basses pre - 1970.
However, the Gibson has always been the guitars I've always loved the most.

But.....I landed this 1964 original finish Fiesta Red Stratocaster, green guard, clay dots, spaghetti logo...100%. This is a great guitar! I dig this one even more than any maple neck or slab board strats that I've owned in the past.
I'll post some more and better pics later....check it out! :)


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Wilko

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Very cool!

I'm in the middle of building a fiesta red strat from an 80s E-series Squire. It was black, but I strated stripping the body and fixing the body contour today.
 

S. Cane

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Immaculately beautiful one, my friend.

Does it have the classic hairline finish cracks around the neck pocket?
 

60pinstripe

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What are the features about this one that makes you like it more than any of the others that you have owned in the past?
 

DEVILBAT

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What are the features about this one that makes you like it more than any of the others that you have owned in the past?


The neck is very comfortable; the finish is my favorite of all time;nice dark Brazilian fretboard; nice original frets...nice weight; love the '64s and transition logo green guard 64's and '65s. I believe that the '66 large headstock strats are still the best Fender strat "deals" out there......but this guitar has "it"..Hendrix had an affinity for '64s. Guitar is nicely balanced as are the pickups. Also, it has never been modified or screwed with. And it sounds awesome....biting lead pickup, beautiful Hendrix like tones at the 'tween position o the 3 way switch, and nice warm tone with the neck pickup. Pickups react nicely to tone and volume controls, and I love it clean or (especially) dirt. It sounds great through a '64 deluxe reverb or a Marshall.

I prefer Les Paul's and 355's, but this '64 strat is a killer.

Besides, I've always contended red guitars sound better!
 

sikoniko

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RIGHT?!?!:yah

I have seen that some PG makers are even replicating that..

VERY nice!

there are some people on TGP that are doing their own 'relic'ing' and are taking razorblades to the pickguards to give that look. I find it quite silly that someone would intentionally do that. It's not really a desirable feature...and when it happens near the neck pickup, makes it incredibly difficult to keep the pickup height from staying in place...
 

Kris Ford

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there are some people on TGP that are doing their own 'relic'ing' and are taking razorblades to the pickguards to give that look. I find it quite silly that someone would intentionally do that. It's not really a desirable feature...and when it happens near the neck pickup, makes it incredibly difficult to keep the pickup height from staying in place...

Yep, a bummer in real life..why try to replicate THAT?
 

Texas Blues

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I've always been a Gibson guy. I've had at least one Les Paul, one TV Model Junior and one mono 59-60 ES-355 in my arsenal since 1979. They have and will continue to do the job for me as long as I am playing guitar. However, there are a few Fender models I've always liked, 1954- 1966 stratocasters, '52-'66 Esquires/Telecasters, and a very strange obsession with custom colour Mustang basses pre - 1970.
However, the Gibson has always been the guitars I've always loved the most.

But.....I landed this 1964 original finish Fiesta Red Stratocaster, green guard, clay dots, spaghetti logo...100%. This is a great guitar! I dig this one even more than any maple neck or slab board strats that I've owned in the past.
I'll post some more and better pics later....check it out! :)


2vxmujs.jpg

I tried to be a strat guy but always felt like I was having to do kung fu to play it.

But if I was surfing the internet for guitar porn and came upon that redhead...

I might need a jar of vaseline and a roll of paper towels close by.

Got dang hot lookin' guitar!
 

Pellman73

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I love it

the pics of it with your burst though I can't see-- I just see a thing from photobucket saying some stuff

great score
 

P.Walker

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love it. factory large frets? 64/65 custom color strats (headmatched a bpnus) with transitional logos are my fav...
 
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