Fender 1983 American Vintage ‘62 Reissue Stratocaster V015269 RI Video Tour Demo
Friday, July 2nd, 2010 at
3:47 am
V015269. Inside and out video tour of a 1983 Fender '62 American Vintage Reissue Stratocaster. This guitar is dead mint and has original receipt! Please check out www.fenderreissue.com for more information regarding early American Vintage Reissue Guitars.
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Had one of these new in 1984. Bought it from local guitar shop. Had it for a few years and then bought a strat standard. rock and roll continues!
Yes, all Fender American Vintage Reissue Stratocasters have a nitrocellulose finish on the body and the neck.
great fender !!!
do you happen to have any left handed 62 strat under 1500
Do you buy Reissue strats?
Listen to 0:10
624 bucks new? Man times change.
Are you sure these early ones are Nitro? It looks too shiny. I know they’re Nitro now, but didn’t know the early ones were. This guitar was originally purchased on my 9th birthday! I want.
i recently brought a 62 reissue strat from 1997 and the pickups are not beveled like on my 2001 57 reissue also the switch blade is a 5 position not a 3. the serial number is correct just wondering if you could give me any info on its originality. thanx
any difference with this one and then 2010 american vintage 62 reissue
$624 in 1984 dollars = $1277 in 2008 dollars
and don’t forget 2 years ago these guitars were like 15 or 16 new.
So, all said and done, it’s not that much cheaper. Buying a 1954 strat would cost you about 2 grand, maybe 25 in today’s dollars.
How else would he have 16 or 17 of them?
hells yeah. Back then the owners of Fender had a company to save.
Maybe on the 80s reissues, but I’ve personally stripped a 62 reissue body from the 2000s, and it has poly under the nitro.
This was confirmed by Fender reps too. actually one of them told me that that’s how it was done back in 59, that’s why they do it like that now. I don’t know how BS they are, all I know is that I don’t really want the poly on the guitar.
so the 1983 has better quality?
from what people say, the 1982-1984 is generally considered not as good in terms of reproduction accuracy or playability as the 1985-1989 era, but the 1982-84 guitars are more valuable because they’re rarer and because they have mistakes and stuff. But overall the 80s strat reissues are much better quality than the 90s and on… Like I said, back then they had a company to save.
I believe the polyurethane sealer (under the nitro finish) was introduced in ‘65 or late ‘64. And you’re right about currently reissues having poly under the nitro finishes. Only when a guitar is Fender Custom Shop or labeled “Thin Skin” finish is when the guitar actually has a pure thin nitrocellulose laquer.
According to the Fender rep, they have poly under the nitro on all of those thin skin and custom shop finishes too.
Really? That’s odd, why would there be a distinction between a regular nitro finish and thin skin in that case?
Besides, I’m pretty sure the poly makes little difference, pre-CBS guitars did in fact have it too and it’s not a finish, it’s just a sealer. Of course this is a very controversial debate.
I must say though, I really found the 64-65 strats to be some of the best sounding of the 60’s era strats. I know they actually changed some pickup specs around that time too, I believe they had grey bottom bobbins and enamel wire around 65… I think that’s the beginning of those piano sounding Hendrix strats. I really love that sound.
My guess is that Fender doesn’t really care about marketing something accurately anymore, and that poly is quick to do. I personally don’t really hear a tonal difference, I just like the way nitro wears. Much more important for solidbody electrics are stuff like pickups, scale, string gauge, and of course the ever elusive touch…
very cool
did any standard strats come out of the fullerton factory between 82 and 84, or was it just reissues? i’m trying to learn more about the fullerton era…thanks!
alot of companies, not just fender, use a poly sealer. i think fender used poly sealer starting mid 60s (not sure tho). then fender started using full polyester finishes around 67-68 the through out the 70s and 80s. also the first reissues seem to be un accurate to a real 62. a real 62 didn’t have red bottom pickups or plastic wiring. and some of the very first re-issues left the factory with full polyester finishes. why are these guitar worth so much? they’re old.
another thing fender skimps on is the tremolo blocks. they’re made from pot metal, or hot rolled leaded steal and the string recesses are as shallow. i put callaham bridge block in all my strats. they make their blocks to pre-cbs specs.