1962 Fender Stratocaster - Fiesta Red

Serial number 74434

The 1962 Strat pictured is finished in the Custom Color Fiesta Red, and has gold hardware. Otherwise, it has the typical features associated with that year including a maple neck with a separate “slab “rosewood fingerboard, clay dot inlays, and a small headstock with a “spaghetti” Fender logo decal including three patent numbers.  It has the usual greenish Nitrate 3-ply pickguard with a metal shielding plate underneath (replacing the one ply white guard in 1959).