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I have one. Arctic white maple neck

Good to see you back, Alan! Wish Fender did swimming pool routes as standard - maximum pickup swap versatility and weight relief. A win win, imho :) Definitely prefer the black guard and pickup cover👍

Loved the restoration and putting it back new. I have an '86 MIJ Strat with the System One trem. I love it more than my G&L USA & American Strat.

Wow! What a great job! I'm about to buy an E76 MiJ Fender HSS, with the same Mahler bridge. I'm afraid it will not be fixable and maybe also the locking on the palette are gone. If I'll buy it, I will put some locking tuners but for the bridge, I got no options, unfortunately I got no Guitar expert/fixer near, so I need to to the job myself. In your opinion, what could be the better way to fix it, knowing that i got no tools and expertise to eventually even change the 2 pivoting screws. Thank you so very much.

Play the guitar man !!

Hibbidy shibbidy bop no body cares… tanglewooo what ever

Interesting video, thanks - and personally I was glad you didn't feel the need to change any of the components. I agree it's a nice guitar. I was wondering one thing - do the springs in the trem change over time (loosen, stiffen, etc?). Just wondering if you typically do any checks of them or are they rarely a problem, even with guitars that are decades old?

Great guitars!!!

I do love the fact you can put a normal trem back on this I have your identical body but in black same era but mine is the full khaler Spyder style with the extra rear recess geez if interested I'd be happy to straight swap you for my.body with a slightly rarer khaler you could just fit all your gear on it I just want to go normal trem and your body does that

I got a Gold Label Mexi if you want another round..... ;) People that talk crap about Fender Ensenada merely reveal their ignorance. I have love my MIA Fenders too... By my fav? Is my hot rodded limited edition Mexi. Fender knows what they are doing at BOTH factories.

Great build, Alan! That’s a really interesting neck - wish they had a block inlay at the 21st fret, although I have a Japanese Les Paul copy that doesn’t even have one at the 19th 🙄

Give it here sonny!

Nice Tele Build! I love the vintage sattles and the neck With the Square Inlays!

Hello there, Great job bringing that Strat to life. My Peavey Falcon has a Kahler Fulcrum Tremolo that looks like yours. Where can I purchase the bridge saddles? THX.

I have a Vantage parlour guitar from the late 90s. Best acoustic guitar I have ever had-- that includes Gibson, Gretsch and Larrivee among others. I have also got a couple of Matsumoku made Westone Thunder electrics. Really well made guitars.

body looks similar to my harley benton te62 db

9:32 For the ClassicGear tuners you've installed, have you had mixed finishes? The product pictures make it look like the tuners are nickel and the bushing are chrome. I've seen some reviews stating the issue from a couple years ago. Just wondering if it's been solved since then.

Interesting follow-up, Alan! That’s the most informative label I’ve seen on a neck - it’s a nice dark laurel; very rosewood looking. I’d maybe partner the neck with the Squier 3TS body - possible it came from there? 🤔 The split-post vintage tuners are the only ones I’d choose - my Fender Player Tele neck (bought used off eBay) came with the retro-fitted version. It surprises me someone buys a new Fender neck expecting a pre-cut nut - when I looked into buying one, the website said they only have guide grooves and need to be professionally filed. Your partscaster Tele projects are always good to watch - I’ll look forward to the next one! 👍

swap the sunburst body with the red one and end up with a genuine classic vibe 60s with tone riders let the red one have the mexican fender neck then

Nice looking guitar, thanks.💓🎸👍.

id swap the necks, the red body looks like a Northwest guitars one or the old axesarus. You cant beat messing with parts casters. Some of my favourite guitars were parts ones.

A really interesting guitar and video! Squier did some FSR custom colours, so I think it could be genuine - although they often had matching painted headstocks, this looks to be a custom Custom Telecaster with some upgrades! Looking through Tony Bacon’s Squier book, I can’t see anything in that colour - that was published in 2012, so the colour might be more recent, or just not included in the book. Parchment pickguard best, imho It’ll be a really nice guitar when you’ve worked your magic! 👍

It's genuine, FSR Candy Tangerine CVC. The scratchplate looks to be a replacement as it should be white or mint. Really enjoy your videos by the way 🙂

That's an absolute stunner!

I bought one of these used. It was pretty dirty & had been hanging on a guitar store wall for a long time from what I could tell. However, it plays & sounds great after some TLC. I actually plan to do A LOT of mods to it in order to transform it into something similar to the Chris Cornell signature 335. It will all be documented on my channel. (Not trying to advertise, just info only.)

Great video two nice guitars

Yes someone up graded bridge stock ones were horrible

Love your upgrades I did something similar

I have a 2002 mexican and the body is like 10 blocks of wood glued together whereas the black label I removed all finish is a 3 piece alder body

I have a 2002 mexican and the body is like 10 blocks of wood glued together whereas the black label I removed all finish is a 3 piece alder body

I live in America.Mexican strats are made in Mexico by Mexicans.American strats are made in America by Mexicans .The Mexican craftsman may have done a lot of hand finishing on those black labels.Best neck I’ve ever played and I’ve played all of them

But you have too replace everything else tuners ,trem,electronics,pickups

Black label better wood

The original dot had dot markers, that's how it squirred its name

I have an Gibson 335 and a korean Epiphone 335. Gotta say some of the design decision in the Epiphone are better. The neck is maple, thicker and wider. The body is also a little bigger. The Gibson it does looks much prettier and cooler. But i got to say thin mahogany necks are very unstable ( especially when you are using heavy gauges like 0.12/0.13 ) compared to hard and thick maple.

i have the iron gear p90s in a vintage v100, great pickups

The neck stuff gives the guitar more of a story!

I changed the pickups to gibson ones, had the tuners, pickup changed out. It sounds and plays as well as my Gibson after a decent fret job, set up.

Loved the video but by the sounds of it you could do with some charcoal biscuits.

The only way to upgrade an Epi is to buy a Gibson!

I shave my Epiphone necks and seal with TruOil.. any repaired areas you can use CA glue over and it'll be just fine. I'd probably leave it raw after instead of red but that's me this looks great. I think just upgrading the wiring on the DOT and using the original pickups is a better option get some 1meg pots and the TBX tone pot as a single tone and I suppose adding a kill pot just to take up the space. FLEOR make some really nice full shred clone with the nickel silver and A5 dual hex.. for super cheap with both a lower DCR bridge or a really hot Bridge pickup pair which is great series-parallel in its own on a junior.. the DOT pickups are really good however

Fantastic restoration, really well done. Great to see an old Strat being brought back to life. Stunning! I used to have a 1988 sunburst model 3 version of this guitar with the Kahler Spyder trem. Pure awesomeness.

I have a black label I'm upgrading (read: completely overhauling) and it had the thinner bridge block on it. It also has a maple neck on it. It was so beat up when I bought it, the only thing original to it is the body and neck. Lol. I even repainted it and refinished the neck. The Squier series should have "squier" stamped in the body cavity unless it's worn off.

Nice 👌 Tempting

Good as new! Actually, better than new having cleaned the grunge out from under the pickguard - even if it was factory-spec! 😂

Always interesting to see what you’re up to ! Thanks for sharing !

In my humble opinion the best Fender American guitars were the later Deluxes. I have owned more strats than anyone ever should and currently own am American Deluxe 2012 FSR in Aztec Gold, this is my fourth one and they only made 460 of them. I keep coming back to this model because they got everything right and the fit and finish is top notch. Has the compound radius fretboard, strap locks, contoured heel, locking tuners, N3 pickups with S1 and no load tone circuit. Hi mass trem block etc etc....just incredible strats. I did buy some of the new strats and found them to pale by comparison.

I would probably have really liked that back in the 80s!

I bought this guitar from Alan…..I didn’t want to put it down this evening…..you don’t need to change the pickups I promise…..get an EQ pedal and any frequency preference you need is there. Thanks Alan it was a pleasure to meet you.

That blue guitar is an absolute beauty. I've never been into 'odd' coloured guitars, but that one, yes. Like the trem on it too, nice addition.