Fender Guitar Serial Numbers Made In China

Can anyone tell me how old my Fender Squier Strat is? The Serial number begins with CY000. I know it is made in China. I need to access the. Squier serial numbers beginning with CA are made by Axl China. Indonesian Squiers: IC = Made in Indonesia by Cort (solid agathis from 1998), followed by 2-digit year.

Using Fender Guitar Serial Numbers to determine the date of manufacture. Fender Serial Numbers, 1950 to 2007 (Identifying the Year). An inexact science to be sure. Dating a Fender guitar with the serial number is a hit or miss propisition. It helps narrow things down, but in most cases is an inexact science. Leo Fender never intended for his guitars to become collectors items. He never invisioned a need to pinpoint the manufacturing date of any of his guitars.

At least not while he was at Fender Musical Instrument Corporation. With that said, and with great help from numerous sources including FMIC, George Gruhn's publications, and A. Duchossoir the following information should help you but it is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate. Before 1977 Fender guitars hd a serial number on the bridgeplate or neckplate. Serial numbers are basically chronological, but there is some overlap in some years. Before the later 1970's Fender never expected the guitars to be collectable or for serial numbers to be important. The bridge plate or neckplate were applied to a guitar with no thought to keeping any kind of number sequence.

Fender serial numbers were assigned like this: 1. In the factory, there was a large container with serialized items such as neckplates and bridges. A Fender employee simply reached in and grabbed one (or many) and installed them on the instrument(s) as they worked. As you can see from this over-simplified example, serial number assignment was fairly random. Just keep this in mind.

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The only truly definitive way to date a pre-CBS fender is to look at all the dates on the instrument (body date, neck date, pot dates). The serial number can only generalized the age of the instrument within a few years.

Fender Esquire, Broadcaster, and Telecaster Serial Numbers 1950 to 1954 (serial number stamped on bridgeplate) This system of serial numbers is unique to these three models until about the early summer of 1954 (when Fender switched to a universal neck plate serial number system for all models): Esquire, Broadcaster and Telecaster, Numbers On Bridge Plate 0001 to 0999 = 1950 to 1952 1000 to 5300 = 1952 to 1954 Serial Numbers for all Fender Guitar Models, from summer 1954 to mid 1976 In mid-1954 Fender changed the location of serial numbers to the neckplate. This was probably done as a cost saving measure. Because different companies did the stamping of the serial numbers on neckplates they vary in location and layout.

In 1957/1958 some serial numbers started with a minus sign ('-'), or had a '0' prefix before the number. Also in 1959/1960 some serial numbers were at the bottom of the neck plate instead of the usual top. Double stamped serial number plates were also produced (number on both front and back of the neck plate) in late 1957 to early 1959. Unfortunately, there is also some overlap in serial numbers between years -- again due to the fact that neckplates were re-ordered various times from various manufacturers.

4 to 6 digit Neck Plate Serial Numbers No other letters or markings on the neck plate, except for the rare '-' or '0' prefix, as noted. 0001 to 6000 = 1954 6000 to 9000 = 1955 9000 to 16000 = 1956 16000 to 25000 = 1957 (some numbers with a '0' or '-' prefix) 25000 to 30000 = 1958 (some numbers with a '0' or '-' prefix) 30000 to 40000 = 1959 40000 to 58000 = 1960 55000 to 72000 = 1961 72000 to 93000 = 1962 93000 to 99999 = 1963 L-Series (1963 to late 1965) Called an 'L Plate,' Fender neckplates started showing up with LXXXXX numbers sometime in 1963. It was an error by the company that produced the neckplate stamping for Fender.