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There’ll be a dowel in the fingerboard of lefty one piece maple necks too. Around the 18th fret.

As Bazz Jass says, the stamp is all wrong, the whole thing looks brand new and the very large nail in the coffin is the missing pin router hole on the flat of the heel. If that’s missing, it’s not a vintage Fender neck and at that point it’s not worth even trying with “well it’s hard to say...

Definitely not a Fender neck from 1964. Whoever is saying it looks legit doesn't know what they are looking at.

It looks like that because the board has been re-done to a flatter radius. Maybe they didn’t re-radius past the nut slot, so that bit of the rosewood remains intact. I’d be wanting to see this guitar under a black light before I bought it. I hear what the previous owner is saying but I’d...

Seems pretty expensive for what it is, especially with the fingerboard radius at 9.5”. It probably plays great but the vintage market will always discount it because of the fingerboard. I’d also be assuming those pickups aren’t original. They look off to me and I bet some decent high res pics...

Neck looks good, body (refin) looks good. Pretty much every 1968 strat out there had 1966 pots so they are period correct but I’m not totally convinced they are original to that guitar. It all looks too clean and new like they've been added in later. Whoever soldered that later switch in there...

That body looks good to me. Can definitely see the dowels on both sides just above the neck plate / neck pocket. Pretty sure that OK stamp was a 64 feature but I guess could also be late 63. Someone will be along in a minute to date it to exact month and year from the contours I expect.

Slab board way too thick, truss rod in the wrong place, fake neck stamp, headstock the wrong shape. It’s not a Fender neck. There’s literally nothing right about it.

All kinds of wrong. That has never seen the Fender factory at any time, never mind in 1962

There’s no kind of problem thanks and please point me to where I said I had a late ‘63 with that top horn dimension? I’m not the one drawing definitive conclusions from a series of ropey pictures of a body that’s been routed, refinished and probably sanded multiple times in its life. All I...

Maybe not ‘61 but I’ve got a late ‘63 with a tummy cut almost identical to this one and a ‘68 with a bigger tummy cut so they did vary. Agree that they changed generally as the years went on but don’t see how you can definitively say post-‘65 based on the contours from these pics especially...

The following features imho are very consistent with a lot of strat bodies from the early 60s: The shape of the neck pocket/heel area The shape of the trem cavity on the back The floor of the control cavity The way the body pieces are joined The mineral streaks in the Alder All of these things...

Late to the party but that’s a genuine early 60s body imho. Completely ruined obviously and as mentioned above, the price is/was a joke.

Looks good to me. Have a good look at the face of the headstock around the tuner ferrules. The pic is not that great but there’s some flaking of the finish or something going on around the ferrules so they might have been out at some point. They might not and it might just be the finish...

Looks all correct to me from what can be seen apart from the two switches obviously. Could be a mess under the guard or could just have a few extra wires!

OP, got any better pictures?

I had a right handed 69 strat that was black over lake placid blue that was 100% the original factory finish and the control cavity and pickup routes had the router run round them like that. It wasn‘t as severe as this red one but it was definitely the same thing. Seen a couple of others too...

These are correct. Pretty much unchanged from the 60s through to about 75/76 when they changed to black.

I think those pics on the original listing with the steel saddles are a mistake and close ups of a different guitar! The grain behind the bridge is different to Parksie‘s guitar. Checking is different too. The colour looks similar but that’s about it.

Mocha guitars all had black pick guards from the get-go, even in the early 70s when other finish strats got white ones. There might be the odd unicorn with a white guard from the factory but I doubt it. And if I remember right, the guitars we all call “Mocha” were officially “Walnut” finish at...

Thing is, the headstocks were shot in cellulose and the maple boards and the rest of the neck were (mostly) polyurethane because of compatibility between the poly finish and the decal. As a result, the headstocks often go a bit (or a lot) darker than the maple fingerboard. If the finish is...

Nice. Looks super clean. Fingerboard looks redone to me but it could just be the pics. Needs a black pickguard technically.

You’ll really have to upload a few good quality pictures if you need help with it.

I’d say from that, Don doesn’t know what he’s looking at or has misunderstood the question. They might look correct as 1974 pots but they aren’t correct for a Strat. I’ve never seen an original, factory wired set of pots on any Fender Strat from the late 60s or early / mid 70s that had a...

^This. Frankly crazy the number of pots for sale these days at eye watering prices that are not even correct. Hundreds of dollars for old pots that just happen to have the right year in the date code. Better off with $5 new ones!