Is this '62 Strat genuine and all original?
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- This is a genuine 1962 Strat, but how much of it is original? It's been refinished, and a refin has a big impact on the value of a vintage guitar. What else about this Strat has been changed? Erick Coleman shows how he figured this out.
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i have a genuine vintage yard broom made in the 1920's ... it belonged to my grand-dad.
It has had only 10 handle replacements and 15 brush-head replacements in the last 90-odd years.
The sentimental value is incalculable ...
OK Trigger ;-)
Yeah, but is geniune hickory? Because tonewood.
murrmac I have a two-piece pool cue, in it’s original case, that was commissioned by my great-great-grandfather as a gift for my grandfather, who was President of the National Amateur Billiards Association for many years. I’m in my mid-sixties, so this thing’s gotta be at least a hundred years old. Incredibly durable craftsmanship can rarely be found new in today’s world, unless your budget is virtually limitless. Technology and big business have perpetrated the demise of hand-craftsmanship almost to the point of extinction. More’s the pity. Old stuff is where it’s at, man.
Something just occurred to me: how do you know about the handle and brush-head replacements? You’re sufficiently specific to make me think you must’ve found documentation: a journal, a ledger, bunch of old letters, something. I’m seriously interested in learning how you learned this. Did your grand-dad tell you? If you read this, please enlighten me. I’m not a cop or anything, just really interested in your broom story! 😎
@@ToddtheExploder Think you've missed the joke there sir
back in the early 80's my buddy had so many of these that he played & loved daily...lost contact with him over time but I do know he is still playing at least 1 of 'em
You do a fantastic job of explaining the process. Thank you for well considered content.
Very well presented overview of this guitar - we appreciate your extensive background
I'm not a guitar guy shoot I don't even play music but I'm an artist and I can appreciate the way these guys restore and authenticate these pieces of ART! Awesome
Thank you for posting this video. This is what the internet should be about, educating people with fascinating facts about the subject at hand. Your video is really helpful. Thank you.
Short and sweet. Very informative and well edited video. Enjoyed it. Thanks
Loving all these videos. Great content, guys. I'm learning a lot.
The spaghetti logo was used until 63, in 64 there was a transition and completely phased out by 65.
I had to watch the whole video since the first thing he said about the guitar was incorrect 😅.
@@therealLTS No what he said is right.
@@HunnysPlaylistsnope
@@HunnysPlaylistsThe spagetti logo was replaced by The transition logo in The later part of 64.
So NO hes NOT correct
@@therealLTS you are being obtuse.
A truly magnificent video. Bravo!
Oooo... an Anniversary peg winder. I got me goose bumps!
Another excellent video by StewMac. Thank you very much.
You guys are one of my favorites!!
Cool video! The little tidbits of info are nice to know, just in case I ever got lucky enough to get my hands on one.
Great video, lot’s of cool info, really enjoyed it.
Great video. That broken sg in the back is always nice to see...
Nice to see how much information can be gleaned from simple observation.
Fantastic video, this is my kind of history lesson!
Awesome video! Would love to see more like it!
GOSH!!! I have that exact same guitar. 62 strat, black (mines a refin), no slab fretboard, but it is by far my best playing vintage strat. My 60 strat is like talking to a problem child.
great video, just when ya think you know it all, YOU teach me some new tricks! Thank You..
Great video!
What an excellent guitar!
Any chance we're going to see a video about this refret?
Perhaps some of the techniques?
Would really be great!
Have a nice day
Cheers.
@Stephen Docherty - Haha 😉🎸
@Stephen Docherty I really wonder about that, what exactly makes old strats better then new? I think lots of cash is wasted on these old dinosaurs but if people are doing it because they think their "better" then they aren't living in reality. Wood is wood, wire is wire, the magic comes from the hands playing it.
Transition logo started in late 1964, along with pearloid dots. Nothing was done on exact days, it just started slowly happening over those years. Transition logo was on full effect in 1965, a year prior to 1966, but there are 64s with transition logos
You are correct!
"Transition Logo" was not a transition. There were more '64 Strats with the larger logo than the "spaghetti" logo. The so-called "Transition Logo" was mostly on '66 Telecasters and probably some very late '65s as well.
The whole transition logo thing is bull-shit: these decals were purchased before selling to CBS. They weren't used in production straight away because the older type were still being used. Nothing got waisted back then. The gradual integration/transition of decals is correct. The real CBS decal is the bold black print one. I've even seen guitars as late as '68 with so-called transitions logos.
Sweet!! Great video!
I just purchased a 1975 telecaster with original case. The well done body refinish is now black. The cavities were not masked, and the original color is unkown at this time. I just removed the grover tuners and placed conversion bushings, and installed 'F' tuners. Rosewood fingerboard. Original pickguard and bridge/plate. Player grade for sure, but a cool piece.
Very interesting information, thanks for posting 😊
C'mon Erick and Dan @ Stewmac are The Best..need i say more ? love this ...Great job i can watch this all day ...but i gotta go play my Strat now ..Seeya
Amazing video, thanks!
Awesome video, big help. I have a 67' thats a sunburst and has seen more "in the case time" than playing time.
Play that somebitch!
Or find a really talented player who you know plays a lot but could never afford such a quality vintage instrument and gift it. Gotta be good for the karma, no?
Btw, if this at all appeals to you, I'd fit the description. 😐
the truss rod looks pretty clean
It's been replaced.
Good eye, guys! This guitar was originally sent to us to repair a snapped truss rod. It's the very neck that prompted us to update our Truss Rod Rescue Kit with more thread options, a smaller diameter cutter and the longer extension nuts. So yep, the truss rod nut has been replaced!
@@stewmac Isn't that a veneer board, too? I thought they did slabs until mid 63..?
I enjoyed your video. Great job!
Really love this. Great stuff.
Not a huge fan on refins, but black refin along with the wonderful dark rosewood neck and green guard looks really awesome.
Thanks for showing us how to tell an original "Pat Pend" bridge saddle from a reissue.
Great video, your well spoken. Even I saw that dry wall screw a mile away! Deception is a big fear with vintage guitars. Thanks for the tip on the vintage guitar website.
Informative video - thank you! At 5:39 there does indeed appear to be a signature on the back of the pick guard. How come you didn't comment on this?
Great video. I hope you record the refret job!
My first Guitar which I still own is a 1997 Black rosewood neck Fender Stratocaster granted poly covered and much less valuable but it has a yellowed pickguard genuine aged melts my heart.
Excellent video!
I have 82004. Lots of work done down the years so no premium for 'mint and all original' but i would never part with it anyway having owned it already since 1969
thats cool...
nice!
I had 82300 traded it back in the seventies.
Paul McCaffrey yes! Found my '57 in 1970, smashed burned and painted many colours it's a survivor!
My daughter gently and lovingly asked if she might have it when I'm gone, some very important father and daughter moments revolved around that Strat. Not much antique market value but it's part of the family now.
Let's see it!
Check for the 3mm router table retaining hole below the trem. A dowel was put in to fill it. With original finish a small ring can be seen due to shrinkage.
Shrinkage!
nice work sir, more more more
Nice Job ! As always . 😎
I wish it had been an earlier '62, I really love them thick Brazilian Rosewood slab boards!! But nonetheless, this thing is amazing as is with being basically all original!
The transision logo was actually introduced in late 64 and not in 66 like he said in the video. But very much enjoyed watching the video.
I picked up a old Stratocaster in a pawnshop in 1971 $150 plus a busted Univox Les Paul copy everybody played in bands back in the day. We had a lot of fun fast forward 50 years later and my wife’s cousins husband asked me if he could take a look at it because he’s really interested in old guitars. Turns out I thought I had a 57 when in actuality, it was a 54 Stratocaster, serial number 0260 pick ups by Tadeo Gomez, and wired by Gloria Sanchez, who, whose name we use for my old guitar interesting show you have!
Nice job Erick
Great video.
man, that thing even sounds like the 60's ;)
what a beauty
Killer job!! Awesome guitar!! Thanks
Time to get a 62´ strat screw on Ebay for a few hundred bucks
I saw a vintage piece of tape on Reverb for $500 last year. An unaltered / all original vintage guitar will add an additional zero to the price of a "player." The collector world is a different one for certain.
That sounds like a great deal for a 62-foot screw, even just for scrap metal value.
I had a vintage '62 Strat.
The tuners were replaced.
And the pickups.
Refretted once
Replaced the neck.
Had to replace the body too.
But it occupies the same space as the original '62 Strat.
Yeah, guitarhq.com is great! Don't let that 1990s web design fool you, excellent information there and tons of high quality photos.
Love it! Fender is just my all time favorite guitars.
Very informative I really enjoyed this video I hope to have an original one day
Great teaching Master 😺🎸
For no particular reason other than boredom on a snowy winter day, I dismantled my 1965 Jazzmaster lefty in 1968 and was surprised to see people's initials, names and dates on some of the parts. Then I sold it.
Who's in love?
What a beautiful strat
Great video - useful “pro” information.
I hope you cleaned it up for him! Those knobs were gnarly...
Strangely, people will pay extra for dirt, grime, stains, and event rust and corrosion. They call it patina; I call it neglect. I ain't paying extra for that shit. It is rampant in the gun community.😄
Can tell its an old one because the fretboard is very slim and should be a 7.25 Radius. If you know it's been refinished then it doesn't come as a surprise to me that the claw and Jack socket have been removed at some point..! Also all strats were sunburst in the early years, if someone wanted a red one they would remove hardware and paint over sunburst, hence the custom shop early 60's relics fiesta red or whatever over sunburst. I bet this was done at the factory. Lovely guitar
Fascinating!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the round lam on the rosewood which most people do not associate with a 62 strat. Most people think of slab board. However a post-August 1962 fretboard would have been round Lam as this October production was. This is correct.
Please make a video of the refretting on this guitar
This dude is awesome and he reminds me of Thad from South Parks Guitar Hero episode with the hair flips haha
and it was only played at church on sundays
So ?
Bach music was only played on church on sundays. And its Bach.
Rather hear beautiful music in church than hearing a Strat in a Lady Gaga concert.
Miguel Baptista very true
Jwdag jedug triggered
@@MiguelBaptista1981 think you took that a bit too seriously
My 1997 mim Fender Stratocaster looks like a twin to that one although mine has a yellower pickguard.
Hi Guy's.I have an Old 1960 Stratocaster so called green Guard, Anyhow At some point somebody added a switch to the guard Now i'm left with a 5/8th hole on the guard in the knobs area, Can you please Do a Video on Patching Hole's in vintage Guards. Or better yet I could send the guard in to you guy's at the shop And you can use this guard to do the repair. I do have a fill piece i believe will work perfect. Thanks
True wealth of info here folks!
I'd Rock that thang 🎸
Thankz 4 share
Wow you're very knowledgeable, nice
It’s like looking at an old Electra glide that’s mainly all intact it’s a thing of beauty.
So is the original sunburst still under the black, or was it stripped? Because if it isn't, once the black starts to wear off revealing the sunburst underneath would make it look really cool.
Something about the paper thin fretboard is super attractive to me. Look at the shot with the pink reissue in the background for example, it looks way worse/cheaper than the original neck to me.
I use to have the same guitar but mine wasn’t from the 60s. On the peg head mine had a globe logo and said s10 if I remember right but mine was the exact same color and setup.
Nice video.
Muy buen video!!!!!!
Great video,give us the refret also!
I have a stratocaster style guitar but it says Supro it has no serial # ,i've never taken the neck off and the electronics cavity doesn't say anything i bought it from a friend who's dad sent it to him from the US the headstock is weird shaped (for the supros ive seen on the internet at least) and its quite heavy also been most likely refinished can someone help ,where can i find more info? it sounds great tho.
Is that bridgeplate correct? I believe all the vintage plates I have seen are cut after bending, leaving a tell-tale ridge by the "tremelo" arm where the back edge was removed. That bridge seems smooth like a Gotoh or other import bridge such as those used on Mexican strats, which seem to be stamped with that notch already made before bending.
its gorgeous.
Curiously no mention of the pots and selector switch and their authenticity.
Bullshit,he explains that when he checks the solder on the wiring harness. States it's all original and was undone at the trem claw and input jack. Did you miss it?
great video ! ........ a 'related' question: whenever I see a refinished, pre-'66 body for sale, I wonder @ counterfeiting ...... is there ever a sure fire way to ascertain the legitimacy of a re-finished body ? ...... any links would be helpful, too ..... thx as always.
That's real tough since there's a lot of excellent relic guitars out there these days. The main caution of buying a refinished body online is pictures don't always show the real story. Many are compromised during prep, heavy sanding, reshaped contours, etc. Things you don't usually see until you have it in hands. Buyer beware!
I'm thinking of leaving the flat my tremolo. Many people do it and comment that it gains sustain, I will also put a shims on it and leave the action up, what do you think? is where I feel comfortable
It definitely looks like it has an earlier (57-59) semi “football” style selector switch. What a gorgeous instrument. 👨🏻🔧
Yeah. I also noticed that.
Gorgeous disc capacitor inside too
I think all of the allure to vintage gear is cool, but I will not get sucked into it....What I mean is, I would rather buy many less expensive guitars for the price of one vintage one, then make them work for me and enjoy the variety...Learned how to build my own amp, and fix / modify (including refret) my own guitars, and it's hugely satisfying.... StewMac has great stuff to do that with. .....I do appreciate the history of the older pieces though, and how they have held up over the years. I just won't pay the prices for them.
Can you make a scarf joint on a Les Paul from a different neck onto the old neck?
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the fretboard on that guitar a rosewood veneer as opposed to a slab board? An October 62 strat neck with a rosewood veneer? I thought fender did rosewood slabs until middle 1963. Any insight?
Awesome.
Great assessment - mine is 86392
Would've loved to see a video of Tom working on it
If You had left the chip in one piece, you could have tried flooding all the pins with a generous amount of solder, with enough heat to keep the solder molten across all pins, then wiggle the chip out with pliers. Then clean up the excess solder after the chip is removed.
If your iron is not hot enough, a hot air gun (optionally with a narrow funneled diffuser attachment) will do it.
Who are you talking too?
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 That's weird as I had commented on a Katana amp repair video (replacing the audio power amp chip), and now my comment has ended up here ? How did that happen ??
I got a mex strat that Seymore Duncan with double rows of tiny screws in the kneck also the second control know down pulls out I suspect to out if phase the pickups when yiu pull it out the bridge pickup is silent so I'm not sure how the wiring is setup or if it came from the factory this way or modified I use a small Roland that doesn't provide the tones I want actually unless I play clean with just Reverb but switch to effects its tine is to midi sounding, I'm use to my Peavy I had back east with my 76 USA strst with a maple kneck which zi prefer this one has some kid if rosewood which is just different from my preferred feel zi can't do scales or runs the same way as my other setup. Feel like seeing this entire rig it just motivate me course it's been along time since I played 5 hours a day that's also a factor
I loved my 76 USA can't believe I sold it in anger over getting s divorce back in NJ. Moved to socal it's just not the same, there is a culture difference in CA that alone motivates most people iy rubs me the wring way completely got to get outbof here soon.. God willing that is because zi can't afford it the way things are now inflation is choking the life out if me.
For striped out screw holes my fix is to take a Piece is guitar string and dip it into gorilla glue and slowly fill 1/3 of the screw hole with the glue. This you take time to do it. Then Reinstall the screw within 48 hours that screw will never strip out. nobody will ever see this fix unless you are sloppy. The gorilla glue will expand and harden into the threads in the wood and is why this works so well. cheers
you missed the fretboard, good indicator on both ends
Brilliant
From a player's point of view what would the main differences between a 1963 and a top of the line brand new stratocaster be?
Wow the Day the Month then the Year, makes total sense lol.
I've just bought a 1920 accoustic guitar by Carlo ricordo of Italy in good nick - I can't find much info online - just out of interest does anyone know anything about this Luthier - I'd be interested !
Try again. www.google.com/search?q=Carlo+ricordo&safe=off&tbas=0&source=lnt&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO4Nnvy5DhAhWSAGMBHXOnCgoQpwUIJA&biw=1536&bih=1232
Awesome good video. If the owner decided to restore the guitar. Would it hurt or improve the value? Can you give any information or advice on how to restore the guitar? Thanks for sharing your thoughts and video. I hope you are having a wonderful blessed new year.
Guitar Will always have good value
But the more original more valuable just like old cars
Any kind of change would hurt the value. Restore what? Trying to restore the finish to original sunburst would likely uncover some bondo or cracks, plus it would never look vintage again.
A proper restoration completed by a reputable shop might increase the value a little more than it currently is, but it won't make it the same as an original example. There are a number of shops that specialize in vintage finish work that would fool top experts. These days it is really hard to tell the difference between some relics and the real deal.