Good Jap Strat ? What's it worth ?

m_stan

Trying to figure out if my Jap Strat is any good and what it might be worth. I know very little about guitars. This one was picked up at auction for a couple of hundred quid several years ago and has been gathering dust since.

It's a "Made in Japan" with serial number E697703, which according to the sites I've Googled, tells me it was born between '84 and '87.

It's missing its tremelo and one of the fine tuners (? correct term ?) and the bridge (? correct term ?) has become a little flakey. It needs a good cleaning. Aside from that it appears perfect. Pictures below.

I'm hoping to learn to play soon - it a little more than the major chords I can play at the moment !


Can anyone provide any additional info on whether or not it's a good guitar, what type of pickups are on it, what the model is called, and what it might be worth., etc etc ?

Thanks in advance and apologies for my Fender ignorance !

Doctor J

It's hard to date Japanese Fenders, it's somewhere between 84 and 89, though current Fender serials mean the first number is the year and the letter signifies the decade so E6... would be 86. That's a nice guitar. The trem is made by Kahler who, lucky for you, have just gone back into business, so you should be able to buy a fine tuner screw and trem bar fairly easily. Have a look on ebay for these parts too.

A word of warning. The locking nut on that guitar is fairly easy to botch up and wear the tread out on the screws. Make sure you get exactly the right size allen key for it or else don't lock it at all. Nice, guitar, I'd say it's worth maybe €400-500 or so, maybe less, all depends on the character of the buyer.

Here's a link to your guitar model

m_stan

thanks - great feedback

SirLemonhead

Nice looking guitar

Doctor J

OK, next thread spoiler gets the chop.

m_stan, have you got a pic of under the scratchplate, I'd be keen to see what sort of route they put in there.