My dad has a ’63 Triumph that’s all original, and I wanted to get him one of those plates that some of the older bikes have on the front fender. I’m sure it would have to be a novelty plate.
frettedamericana.com The Rarest of the Rare! The Earliest “Maple Cap” We Have Ever Seen! Complete With the Original Hang-Tag This super rare June 1965, maple-cap Stratocasterweighs just 7.40 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. One-piece alder body contoured on back and lower bass bout. One-piece maple neck with a wonderful medium profile. Maple-cap fretboard with 21 original medium-to-thin frets and black dot position markers. Small headstock with transitional “Fender” logo in gold with black trim, “Stratocaster” in black beside it, and “With Synchronized Tremolo” and four patent numbers in black below (“Pat. 2573254 2960900 2741146 3143028″). Single “butterfly” string tree with nylon spacer. Individual “dual-line” Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons (each one stamped on the underside “D-169400 / Patent No.”). Three light-gray bottom, white plastic-covered single-coil pickups with staggered polepieces and outputs of 5.91k, 6.10k, and 6.00k. On the underside of each pickup are the following black pen markings “9.28.65 Bernie 3″ (neck) ‘Bernie 9.28.65 6″ (middle) and “RH 9.28.65 16″ (bridge). ‘Three-layer (white/black/white) plastic pickguard with eleven screws and full size aluminium shield. Three controls (one volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch, all on pickguard. The potentiometers are all dated “304 6532″ (Stackpole, August, 1965). Inside the neck pickup cavity in pencil is written …
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