Because I want to be cool...I have an ‘88 Strat with a unique color, but I am on a specific quest. I am looking for an ‘88 Strat with the serial number directly before or after the one I own now. Does anyone here own guitars with consecutive serial numbers? To me, that would be the coolest thing ever. Incidentally if you have an ‘88 I am looking for numbers ending in 70 or 71
Do we do that here? I mean, I’ve had it for 25 years so concerns about theft claims have most likely come and gone
OP - I have an '88 American Strat in Tanqueray Green. It was won by my then father-in-law in a Tanqueray Gin contest drawing, and later sold to me. Love the guitar/pickups/Delta-Tone pot. My only complaint is the skinny stock neck. Once the frets wore out, I replaced it with a Warmoth Strat neck with a '59 Roundback neck profile. It's among the 'first string' of all my players. Hope to be buried with it and my other favorites...LOL!!
That's going to be a tough quest, given that sequential serial numbers may not even be the same model. You could be asking for a bass or Tele, and given how inventory was handled, a sequential serial number may not have even been built the same month as yours. Unless you're looking at something from the Custom Shop or some other special run like the AVRI series, you may not find what you want to find, even if you find what you are asking for.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.... It is an likely to be a fruitless search but, if this is your goal, you are at least making an effort. Good luck! My oldest strat is a 91 so I cannot be of any help.
That's an interesting, strange goal. Considering Fender spews out guitars assembled from vast batches of parts, I don't see what meaning or difference sequence makes. It's more like serial numbers on kitchen appliances than serial numbers on Les Pauls.
