Fender Guitars – Fender Serial Numbers
Like Many manufacturers – Fender place a serial number on their instruments to identify the finished article. Over the years the serial number has changed a few times.The Serial Number is accompanied by thepart number.Modern fender part numbers are in the format PPP-MMMM, where PPP is the code for the manufacturing plant and MMMM is the number. On Fenders the serial number traditionally appears at the butt end of the heel of the guitar neck. Fender, however, have not always been consistent and there are examples where it has been placed in different areas or simply omitted. Because of this, neck dating is useful in roughly determining the age of a guitar, but it is certainly not definitive.
There’s some excellent information out on the web when trying to decipher Fender Guitar serial numbers, for starters try Fender.com followed by http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html which has put together an awesome article on the variations Fender have used with their serial numbering over the years. For starters take a look at the following table which illustrates some of the serial numbers used by Fender.
SERIAL NUMBERS |
PRODUCTION DATES |
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Up to 6000 |
1950 to 1954 |
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Up to 10,000 |
1954 to 1956 |
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10,000s |
1955 to 1956 |
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10,000s to 20,000s |
1957 |
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20,000s to 30,000s |
1958 |
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30,000s to 40,000s |
1959 |
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40,000s to 50,000s |
1960 |
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50,000s to 70,000s |
1961 |
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60,000s to 90,000s |
1962 |
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80,000s to 90,000s |
1963 |
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90,000s up to L10,000s |
1963 |
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L10,000s up to L20,000s |
1963 |
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L20,000s up to L50,000s |
1964 |
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L50,000s up to L90,000s |
1965 |
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100,000s |
1965 |
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100,000s to 200,000s |
1966 to 1967 |
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200,000s |
1968 |
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200,000s to 300,000s |
1969 to 1970 |
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0,000s |
1971 to 1972 |
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300,000s to 500,000s |
1973 |
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400,000s to 500,000s |
1974 to 1975 |
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500,000s to 700,000s |
1976 |
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76 + 5 DIGITS |
1976 |
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S7 + 5 DIGITS |
1977 |
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S7 + 5 DIGITS |
1978 |
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S9 + 5 DIGITS |
1979 |
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S9 + 5 DIGITS |
1980 |
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S9 + 5 DIGITS |
1981 |
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EI + 5 DIGITS |
1982 |
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E2 + 5 DIGITS |
1983 |
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E3 + 5 DIGITS |
1984 |
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E3 + 5 DIGITS |
1985 |
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V + 4, 5 or 6 DIGITS (U.S. Vintage Series except ’52 Telecaster) |
1986 |
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E4 + 5 DIGITS |
1987 |
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E4 + 5 DIGITS |
1988 |
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E8 + 5 DIGITS |
1989 |
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E9 + 5 DIGITS |
1990 |
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N0 + 5 DIGITS |
1991 |
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N1 + 5 or 6 DIGITS |
1992 |
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N2 + 5 or 6 DIGITS |
1993 |
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N3 + 5 or 6 DIGITS |
1994 |
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