Hit the jump to see just how old that guitar or bass really is.Dating Your U.S.-Made Fender InstrumentFor most of Fender’s U.S. This information is courtesy, republished here for your convenience. Information on Japanese and Mexican-made instruments is included towards the bottom. If you have a Fender in your hands, you can use this guide to precisely date your Fender instrument all the way back to 1950. When was my Fender instrument made? It’s a common question we get at The Music Zoo. I have a fender squier strat made in Indonesia with a serial number ICS1414. I have got a Squirer with the folowing serial number:s/n ic. I have a fender squier strat made in Indonesia with serial number This may. Fender Product Registration - Serial number lookup. A seven-digit serial number beginning with six, for example, indicates 1996 a seven-digit number beginning with seven denotes 1997 an eight-digit number beginning with 98 denotes 1998, etc.
Thus, “E0” prefix was used in 1990, “E1” and “E2” were used again, respectively in 19! Fortunately, it was possible to distinguish them because the serial numbers “E1” and “E2” of the '80s were very light silver, while those of the '90s were black.Serial numbers without letter prefixes have been found dating through 1996 these are six-, seven- and eight-digit serial numbers with the first numeral (or first two numerals in the eight-digit numbers) indicating year of manufacture.
Since 1990 they started to use a clearer serialization scheme, and the first number after the “E” prefix indicated the solar year. In the '80s, the first number was related to the period of the issue as follows: in 19 they used as first number “1”, in 1989 “2”. The Young Chang and Sung-Eum factories adopted a serial number composed by an “E” prefix plus a 6 or 7-digit number. The first figure of the following 6 or 7-digit number usually indicated the year of production. The serial number of the guitars released in the '80s by the Samick factory featured a “S” prefix. In 1987 Fender started the production of Squier guitars in Korea, at first in the Samick, Young Chang and Sung-Eum factories.
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