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Maybe I am looking at the wrong thing?
If your friends one is missing all sort of parts and has been modded, it will be worth a lot less I guess.
Some people think anything MIJ is worth a fortune - but as you say, are they actually selling?
The exact model of Sustainer will determine how much additional wood has been removed and where.
The Fernandes Sustainer Kit comes in two versions - FSK-101 with a humbucker-sized neck position unit and -401 with a Stratocaster-sized unit. On most Stratocaster bodies, the -101 would require pickup cavity enlargement and a replacement pickguard.
A modified body would also require a cover plate for the PCB and a PP3 box to power it.
IMHO, a modified and incomplete E6 Squier is a kit form project. The demographic for a Sustainer guitar will be pretty small. The more work that there remains to be done, the lower the monetary worth of the guitar. Nobody else would pay good money for a guitar full of holes.
The sort of Fretboarders who might take a punt on buying your friend's guitar are experimenters and cheapskates such as myself and HarrySeven.
I have an E7 neck from a System 1 Stratocaster. Its heel is rubber-stamped ST62, indicating an early Sixties style rear profile but with a flatter 'board radius to suit the double locking vibrato.
The System series guitars transitioned from a Fender decal to Squier but the necks were identical.
FWIIW, the System 1 Stratocaster body was a lump of poplar. My entire loaded Squier body and string clamp sold cheaply on eBay. Good riddance.
The neck is really nice, as good a Strat neck as I have come across, nice dark rosewood and worn in feel.
The project is incomplete insofar as it needs pickups and a wiring harness.
If it’s in good condition with no serious fret wear, it should be worth about a third of the value of the complete guitar, possibly slightly more.
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