If you want to play with wiring a stratocaster to get the rich, distorted sound, or simply want to revert back to its original wiring, here is a useful guide Wiring a Stratocaster on StratocasterGuide.com.

This famous guitar has been used trough the whole modern Rock 'n' Roll history and is one of the most recognizable guitars of all time. It's serial numbering is a bit odd and not quite straight forward to figure out, so if you are trying to date your Strat, or simply want to check stratocaster serial number of the strat you've put your eye one, here is the simple description. On stratocasterguide.com there is an useful explanation of the Stratocaster Serial Numbers and it's nomenclature.