There is absolutely no reason to worry.put your mind at ease, it's 100% real and legitimate - it just may have been MODIFIED from a previous owner to have different pickups etc, this could have been a 2004 SSS American Series that someone changed pickups on - there's no need to worry if all the pickups and control layout doesn't match what models were sold new at that time. And no it should not have some kind of special neck plate because not every Z4 was actually made in 2004, could be late 2003 or early 2005. It's the physical details, and every fake has something wrong that is easy to spot with a trained eye. THAT is not the determining factor on a guitar being fake. It's VERY VERY VERY common to not have it come up in Fender's database. The dealer has to register the numbers with Fender, and THEN it gets added once they have the guitars physically at their store. When Fender sells a guitar to a dealer, it is NOT in the database. This is simple, you are overcomplicating it. However, these would have the less contoured bodies that Fender used on American Standards from circa 1988 until they were discontinued in mid-2000. Just enter the number below, hit the ‘Decode’ button and our lookup tool will tell you the year your guitar is from, which country it was manufactured in, and even the plant it came from. They came in Sienna Sunburst, and would have had the tortoise shell pickguard (I don't remember if they had a shell backplate - it could have been shell or it could have been standard white). I would like to see a photo of the body showing the contours - I'm wondering if this is a 2004 neck on a 1990s Lone Star Strat - which would have the older "Fender" logo neck plate, the Duncan Pearly Gates + humbucker and 2 Texas Special single coils. Later models feature a much larger headstock logo, with a serial number silkscreened next to the Fender logo, and Mustang-style tuning keys. The Fender Musicmaster Bass is a model of electric bass guitar, produced by Fender between. Plus the HSS model in 2004 should also have the S-1 switch. The serial numbers are date encoded much the same way as Fender guitars from the late 70s. I would like to see a full shot of the body - for what it's worth Fender was no longer using Seymour Duncan humbuckers in the "Hot Rodded" American Series by 2004 they had switched to using a Fender-branded humbucker. It's my understanding that the serial numbers are manually entered into that database when the guitar is completed (not sure when - probably by whomever does the final inspection and boxes it up for shipping), and occasionally it gets skipped. The neck looks legit to me, and as others have said sometimes they just don't show up on Fender's serial number search.
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