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With a COA, I would be asking at least £2,200 for this. A German dealer had what I think was an identical one for sale at £2,785 on Reverb, and that has now sold.
So, someone sold me a Cs strat about three years ago - and forgot to mention it had no Coa.
It had email correspondence between a shop and Fender, with internal photos of the strat, which he'd supplied previously.
The guy just said, Fender will supply a new Coa for 50 quid.
I went to a retailer and after a couple of months received a replacement Coa.
To my surprise, it was dated as the original production date and not the new issue date.
I think I'll start the process. I'll update the advert (and the price!) if I get the COA sorted.
First refusal when it goes back up if you want it - hopefully complete with a small piece of card worth around £400!
Doug thinks that given the age, it is probably a Time Machine Series guitar, so vintage spec with Custom 60’s pickups. He says that the flatter radius on a catalogue guitar didn’t become standard until 2007/8.
Trying to get the Floor Traveller too but I don't think Fender have them that far back.
As for hassle, I seem to attract tyre-kickers whatever type of guitar I am selling! Some people - not you, I might add - seem to just like engaging with people about the guitars they are selling with no interest in buying whatsoever. Nature of the beast, I suppose...
I took a look and had no doubt it was genuine and personally I didn’t care about the coa.
I could make a guess about the specs for a 2003 guitar - 7.25 radius, vintage frets, 60s pickups (would have been machine wound back then probably), probably a 60s oval neck, but that’s a lot of guessing on an almost 2k investment.
You may be right but I can't give what I don't have. I had emailed Fender for info but they weren't able to give me anything with the guitar being 17 years old. So, I was kind of stuck.
The neck is a 60s oval but the rest of it, I'm not sure, to be honest. Maybe Doug will have more joy.
At the end of the day, it was a gorgeous CS relic at £1,800 but nobody went for it.
I'll pm you the name of the dealer.