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The Fender serial number decoder currently supports all documented MIA, MIJ, MIM, MIK and MII formats with the exception of Custom Shop, Relic and Reissue instruments. Please note that fender serial numbers tend to overlap by at least a year, and thereby the date of your guitar can only be approximated.
Not on the neck or back, anywhere. This serial number is printed on a label inside the body saying “Made in accordance to specifications of the Fender Musical Instrument Corp. USA manufactured in Korea ”. The serial number registration of these countries also leaves sometimes to be desired. DATING FENDER ACOUSTIC GUITARS from Fender. Like the body and neck dates, using serial numbers to date a Fender is not a sure bet.
The first number following the prefix is the year. KC and KV serial number prefixes are usually used on Crafted in Korea Squiers.
Find the date of a Fender guitar by serial number You can use this Fender serial number decoder to date a Fender guitar. Also overlap of serial numbers and dates come with regularity. I must say those string trees look odd and the Fender logo looks silver? Made in Korea on the back of the headstock with a Gold (black outline) Fender decal on the front, does not say Telecaster!
The CN CNand VNFender Squier Series Strats will have a silver Fender logo on the headstock with a small Squier Series in black near the end of the headstock. Most silver logo models will have full width laminate. I have the same guitar by the way. They said the only numbers that mean anything are the first two.
After that, the numbers are meaning less. There were also some KV (Korean Saehan(Sunghan)) serial numbers followed by 2-digit year. The KC and KV forms are apparently associated with the change to Crafted in Korea. Six-digit serial numbers with no preceding letters, with the first number being the year.
Serial numbering didn’t change immediately because instruments continued to be made using existing, tooling, parts and serial number schemes. Notice that there is quite a bit of overlap in numbers and years. Obviously, the numbers on the neck only date it and the body could be who knows what. You will need to post a photo.
The new Fender did not acquire any physical assets of the old company, just the name Fender.
The Japanese-made Fenders do have some slight serial number differences (typically a J serial number prefix). There is a gold decal with black outline at the head and the word Fender impressed in the neck plate. Both the Fender Showmaster and Toronado were manufactured in Korea by Cort.
Korean and in my opinion not far behind a Fender Japan Strat. This website possesses NO DATABASE of guitars made by manufactures, instead simple serial code patterns that are available on this site and in the wider guitar community are used. It follows that potential scammers can use this knowledge to try to trick unsuspecting buyers.
VNSquier Strat The VNguitar is an amazing beast. Once I had the action set up, the frets dresse swapped out the electronics and threw in some bareknuckle pickups, my guitar was feeling and sounding better than an american and Japanese Fender that I was fortunate to get my hands on. In the last years, Fender has introduced many different serial numbers schemes, depending on the country the Fender guitar was made (USA=MIA, Mexico=MIM, Japan=MIJ, Korea =MIK, etc). Other Fender Serial Number Schemes. Not all schemes are covered here.
Below are some examples of letter prefixes used in recent serial number schemes.
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