Fenix ST-20-M 90’s - Cream

Fenix 

ST-20-M 

Korea

90’s

Young Chang was the manufacturer for Squier Korea back in the late to 80’s but when they launched their own brand Fenix, they aimed a lot higher, and produced guitars with quality appointments and sound

and was one of the most prominent builders that helped put Korea on the guitar map. 

Except for a ding on the lower bout it’s in really good condition with new pots and knobs. Some fretwear but nothing major. 

Nice German carve on the headstock and a Jesus sticker. 

The Korean Young Chang company made Squier instruments for Fender at some time in the 1990s - they also sold Fender style instruments under their own "Fenix" brand name.

The ST 10 was one of their stratocaster models. The ST-10-M had a one piece maple neck - carved from a single piece of wood without separate fingerboard. The ST-10-R models had rosewood fingerboards on maple necks. Nickel silver frets. Solid alder body. Roller string tensioner. Standard (vintage) tremolo with chrome plated hardware.

It starts back in the late 1980s, when the established South Korean musical instrument manufacturer Young Chang was awarded a contract to make Fender’s budget end Squier guitars. And Young Chang did indeed manufacture those Squier guitars. But that’s not all it did. At the end of July 1989, the British Music Fair was introduced to a new range of guitars from a brand new name: Fenix. And Fenix was, to all intents and purposes, Squier – but better, and cheaper. The Young Chang company had, among other things, taken its own, Fender-endorsed build of the best-selling Squier Stratocaster, replaced the plywood body with solid alder, tinkered slightly with the headstock, and pitched in with an ‘own brand’ price.