Building A Website For Late '70's Strat Dating Info Options

[Matt]

Hi. With the rising popularity and collectability of late 70's Strats comes the risk of getting duped. Getting a fake, or 'parts caster', or simply a miss-dated guitar due to lack of knowledge.

I am starting a site to aid in dating these guitars. I hope to load it with info from all over the net, mainly by talking to people on forums like this to create a data base of knowledge to aid the purchaser in their quest for an affordable vintage Strat.

I have actually witnessed, in the same week, two people on another forum buy '79 Strats that turned out to be '80 & '81 models, and I myself am the proud owner of what I thought was a '79, but recent findings leed me to believe it is a very early '80 (albeit still proud ).

Here is the site so far. It's a subdomain off my main website for violins I make as a hobby. I've only picked up HTML through fiddling around with making my own sites, so it isn't too flashy.

Any info that I can add, even pictures I will be looking for soon, is appreciated.

Thanks.

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This post has been edited by Matt: Dec 5 2009, 08:42 AM

[Matt]

Just wanted to let everyone know I worked with cronos (he did most of the work ) and the site now has a new home at:

http://www.strat-central.com/70sstrats/index.htm