Help! Fender Color Question!

So I'm looking into getting a nice strat for myself. I saw this one locally and I love the color of it! But I wasn't really able to find it on the Fender color chart...?
It kind of looks like midnight wine but you can see the wood on this one?
Anyone know what color it is?
The reason I am concerned is because I want to know if this is actually an American Stratocaster, or if the body has been altered!
Thanks

[noisemaker]

midnight wine I think the name is.. same colour as the highway one's

[prometheus]

Midnight wine is normally a solid color, that looks somewhat transparent...it's a darker shade of bing cherry trans, but I don't have the name off the top of my head.

EDIT: I think it's just wine transparent.

[dkals]

It looks like the highway 1 in midnight wine. It will be somewhat transparent and have a matte finish unless previously owned and polished. Neck has 22 frets so at least the neck is American. Also looking at the frets in the picture they look jumbo which the highway 1 has also.

[noisemaker]

Originally Posted by prometheus

Midnight wine is normally a solid color, that looks somewhat transparent...it's a darker shade of bing cherry trans, but I don't have the name off the top of my head.

EDIT: I think it's just wine transparent.

highway one.. midnight wine



dont even try to tell me thats not the same colour.. cuz I know it is

the neck i know is not highway 1, its an american standard! but yea, the reason I am inquiring is because the midnight wine is normally a solid color and this is transparent...

alright so I guess it would be a highway 1 body then with a standard american neck...

[noisemaker]

Originally Posted by nicmat42

the neck i know is not highway 1, its an american standard! but yea, the reason I am inquiring is because the midnight wine is normally a solid color and this is transparent...

how can you see that its not a hwy1 neck?

you know what... i thought it was a standard because it didn't have the big black writing on the head and because it says made in u.s.a on the front. but i've been looking around as much as i can and i think that earlier highway one's look alot like the standards. the frets also look a bigger on this guitar... so i guess the whole thing is a highway one...

[prometheus]

Originally Posted by noisemaker

highway one.. midnight wine



dont even try to tell me thats not the same colour.. cuz I know it is

No need to go over the top, just discussing colors here.

[BrentB6]

What about Transparent Crimson Red. My monitor may not be picking up the color just right

[dkals]

Have a picture of the headstock?

[prometheus]

No, it's midnight wine, noisemaker was correct.

I see the word 'wine' in a Fender custom color thread, I immediately flash back to an MIM standard strat I had a few years ago that was Wine Red. Gorgeous guitar, never should have let it go.

[dkals]

I have a highway 1 and my string spacing is not that close to the ends of the fret board. The highways have the saddle spacing like MIM's I think? So that may be a something other then a highway one.

Do you have the serial #? If so go to www.fender.com and search the serial #

[Boris Bubbanov]

The opaque poly MIM Standard color is called Midnight Wine.

The see through Upgrade Highway One color is called Wine Transparent. That's this, IMO.
It can photograph all kinds of ways, depending on how much light hits it. Red needs light to be seen:

Upgrade Tele, wine transparent but polished out.

The string array on that guitar is Vintage. Look how close to the edges on both sides the strings are, and given the rolling of the edges (See The Callaham Guitars Webpage) that Am Se neck is a definite mismatch for that bridge. Both E's will play like dog dirt, falling off of the fret ends. http://www.callahamguitars.com/up_amst.htm

Another kicker. The through holes and the mount holes align, and therefore the bridge installed on that Wine Trans H1 body is NOT (IMO) a stock Upgrade Highway One bridge, but instead a MIM Classic or possibly an AV Vintage bridge assembly. The First Gen Highway One (thru mid 2005) had narrow screw and string spacing, like a MIM Standard. The Upgrades switched to a wider (more versatile) screw mount spacing but kept the "modern" string spacing to make the H1 and Am Se/Deluxe/and now Am Standard necks interchangeable somewhat.

This is a partscaster disaster - run away fast.

Pre-upgrade Highway One bodies had a medium ruby red type color quite different AND the narrow screw mount spacing - that ain't this either way.