This is awesome! Definitely post some more pics when you can. The bird's eye neck with flame is by far my favorite part of this guitar. Can't wait to see more.

This is so sweet. You did a really good job!

Fender is notorious for keeping horrible records and making illogical serial changes over the years. Part of it is like what Alan said. They just make too many guitars at too many factors. The other part is, sometimes I think they want to confuse people with their foreign guitars. They don't want people to know too much. ha ha. It never really made sense to me. How difficult could it be to just keep a serial number sequence consistent?

Here is a good guide that I go to when I need to lookup a serial number. It explains more than the fender website does.

http://www.guitarrepairbench.com/guitar-dating/fender-serial-number.html

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to this forum. This is the first time I have posted in here. I found this awesome list of resources on google. Thanks for making this, Alan. I just bookmarked about half of these sites. ? Here is a site that I don't see on here. It has articles about repairing and building guitars. A lot of great info.

http://www.guitarrepairbench.com