9 This guitar is one of the 1954 made in 1994 as a 40th anniversary model. Made in Fender's Corona USA factory, it has a very nice ash body finished in two colour sunburst nitro-cellulose lacquer. You can see the open grain of the ash and it looks like they have attempted to match the two halves. This one is very attractive looking, some of these did not have as nice wood as this one. No fancy birdseye, but a clean piece of wood.
Frets are vintage standard and well finished.
The neck is polyurethane finished, and quite thickly applied to the playing surface. This has meant that after two years of fairly good use I have not worn the finish off, and this is OK by me. Tuners are copies of the original Klusons, not locking, and reliable so far. The pick-guard is a thin one layer white, and I now know why Fender put an extra screw in and went to the three ply pick guard, because this one seems flimsy and wants to buckle. I'd change it if I could be bothered.