Re: 1988 Robert Cray Stratocaster?
I have a first year very early production model Robert Cray Strat. It is one of my most prized guitars, one night back in the late 90's the great Ronnie Earl played it at one of his gigs and signed the back for me. It was very cool. The guitar has never sounded that good ever since, and I could never part with it.
These first early ones in the late 80's were made in the original custom shop, which was in the old factory before they moved. They had very shoddy records then, and couldn't tell me much about when mine was made. By looking at those pictures I tend to agree with the body maybe being a MIM Cray body. When I had mine apart I don't recall any bar coded inventory stickers like yours has, and the neck pocket markings were different. I'm by no means an expert though, but I think if you sent Fender Customer service some pictures they could shed some sort of light on this question.
