Uncirculated Pre-CBS Custom Color Strat: 1962 Fender Stratocaster Fiesta Red!

Check out this vintage Pre-CBS custom color Strat: 1962 Fender Stratocaster in original Fiesta Red finish! We purchased this from the family of its original owner a few years after he passed. It's the classic vintage guitar story: he toured this Strat in the 60s with his band until family and life ushered him away from playing professionally. The Strat was relegated to church and home gigs after that.
In my opinion, the best custom color for a pre-CBS Stratocaster is Fiesta Red. But the custom color Fender world can be fraught: refins offered as original finishes abound, so how is one to verify authenticity? The original finish tells vary from year to year, but this one is textbook 1962: desert sand undercoat, clear nail holes, sharp cavity edges, and thin wood fibers on the worm rout. This guitar predates the "paint stick" Fender began using in 1963, so it has a fully painted neck pocket just as it should.
The listing of this 1962 Fender Stratocaster is still available: truevintagegui...
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[@grenenthomas8115]

I bought one of these in 1962. It was magic!

[@CarstenGoeke]

Beautiful ✌🏼

[@Tonetwisters]

Now THAT is a guitar. And I turned 15 the month and year this was born. And was wanting a Stratocaster, even then.

[@davehopping7212]

As I recall from long ago, Fender custom colors did exist but were exceedingly rare and only began to show up in the dance halls around mid-'62. Being on the East Coast at the time, we didn't get the cool stuff until somewhat after the SoCal guys did. Even then, the Oly white ones were the most often seen, and I never saw a Fiesta Red Fender guitar until considerably later. The one in the vid is most beat but most sweet. Thanks for showing it!

[@mollirodhaet7224]

You recall poorly

[@mattflickinger8151]

that thing POPS, best color!

[@rolanddiano7054]

What is that dirt pedal! Pls share!

[@AudricDenis]

What capacitor

[@buddybeetle]

? NOT a fiesta red, even if faded.! As far as my iPad suggests. It just looks wrong from here.

[@analogemma]

Lol you're so right random man on the internet and the guy that see's these for a living must be wrong

[@RiggsTaylor]

@@analogemma exactly - very much Fiesta Red!

[@mollirodhaet7224]

More bullshit

[@RiggsTaylor]

Care to explain?

[@grenenthomas8115]

No. I had one.

[@mollirodhaet7224]

@@RiggsTaylor Always a story with him. Always something strange about where the leads start, the buyers. Always something. Sick of it.

[@mollirodhaet7224]

@@grenenthomas8115 Yeah, that isn't the bullshit part.