1964 Fender Stratocaster - Candy Apple Red

Serial number L45572

The 1964 Fender Stratocaster pictured is finished in the custom Candy Apple Red, but otherwise has the typical features associated with the first half of that year.  These include: a maple neck with a separate rosewood fingerboard, clay dot inlays (replaced later that year by slightly larger pearloid dots), and a small headstock (until 1966) with the original “spaghetti” Fender logo (replaced by a “transition” logo decal starting in July of ’64).  1964 was also the last year to see a greenish celluloid pickguard (replaced with white plastic by 1965).