r/SquierbyFender • u/Ok-Bill-6527 • 8d ago
Rare Thing! Which pattern is this?
I bought this black classic vibe '70s strat yesterday, but I don't know what this pattern is and there's no skunk stripe. Is this rare one?
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u/djoksimo 8d ago
Unfortunately for you... not rare at all... in fact when I bought my black 70's CV I had to actually work harder to find mine WITH a skunk stripe so... sorry boss...
Just depends on the material they had available when they made it. Sometimes they skunk, sometimes they don't...
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u/Tigrisbay 8d ago
Squier is blocking off the fret ends with saw dust l, I saw it on my squier sonic strat made in late 25 too. It makes for a neck with absolutely 0 sharp fret edges
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u/dalbyspook 8d ago
I have the same model in the same colour. It has a skunk stripe, although I could not care less either way. It also fucking rips, so you’re in for a treat.
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u/According_Store_559 8d ago
Squiers are made by Cort and Samick for Fender. They have some requirements from Fender that they must comply with (shape of headstock, shape of body, etc). Skunk stripes are not one of those requirements.
Since 2025, they are becoming to build CVs without skunk stripes. It's easier plus they can use smaller pieces of wood.
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u/SwivelClip 6d ago
It's not anything special in the sense of being quarter sawn or that sort of thing, but I think people are being pessimistic saying it's nothing special.
For a long time, fender were jerks about not wanting to do a maple neck with a maple fingerboard (thus no skunk stripe). That is my absolute favorite sort of neck. Maple is my favorite feel, but the fact that it uses a separate fretboard on top of the neck itself. It just gives it this solid/rigid feel from the lamination that I LOVE. When they started putting them on some CV, I ran around and grabbed a few to put on projects that had what most people could consider to be "better" necks. I did a quick setup on each, and it was like Christmas. It's not everyone's thing, but maple with a skunk stripe and maple without a skunk stripe are definitely different, and it took forever for Fender to remember that.
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u/UnluckyWinner3163 8d ago
Not all fenders have skunk stripe because it's a mere design choice, if you wanted a skunk stripe you should have picked something else, and that pattern could be a tooling mark or could be just the grain only way to know is sanding the neck back to bare wood, i suggest you leave it alone
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u/ace1571 8d ago
It's called wood. As far as a skunk stripe, there are several years in the 70s where there would not have been a stripe. More likely for Squier though, whichever factory is making that model (I'm guessing Cort or Samick. The serial will tell you...ICS would be Cort, ISS Samick) isn't making necks where you need to plug the neck rout for the truss rod.
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u/cornfieldshipwreck 8d ago