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Originally Posted by gem12
My 96 USA 50th Anniversary Fender Strat Plus Deluxe in Mystic Black
I think not all came in Sunburst Color. |
Ugh, this is the confusion I've been trying to clear up. Every guitar from 96 came with a little sticker on the back of the headstock to honor Fender's 50th anniversary as a company. This doesn't indicate it's an official 50th anniversary commemorative model. They released specific commemorative models of the standard Strat, standard Tele, and Precision and Jazz Basses. These are all USA made, but I know at least the Strat and Tele had Mexican made versions (as someone else noted, in Aztec Gold) and CS models, too.
I can't find hardly anything from NAMM 96 that details it like this, but they did essentially the same thing in 2006. Here's a
good rundown. Every guitar from 2006 has a 60th anniversary sticker on the back of its headstock, but only the USA commemorative models have the diamond on the front. Once again, these only came in sunburst while the Mexican and CS versions got their own color schemes.
Note the models I've been trying to describe are all officially called "Commemorative" models. Thanks to Fender's confusing semantics it's easy to find sellers describing something as a 60th anniversary model when it's not one of these models.
Here's a
good rundown explaining the Stratocaster's 50th anniversary commemorative models from 2004.