Where to find fender stratocaster serial numbers

Which year was built. If you take the neck off you should find at the base of the neck by the truss rod adjuster the date stamped there. At least that is how mine is. I have been to several websites including Fender but cannot get the answer. I have a brand new never ever been played, the sticker still covers the whammy Bar insert. My question is, is it American Made, How old is it?

Thanks for your help. Its a USA made in It clearly tells you that on the information listed above. I am looking at similar one, Cant find anything on it.

It seems a bit custom, with a black headstock to match the body. It has the Fender amp with it. Can you help me? I have a fender strat… I cannot find, on the search can u help.. Serial number is ICO Ty…. Correct the year. I checked the date of the neck, my Precision Bass was the 30th week of It was not Neck Dating print : ? F plate serial number : Bought it new around early Any idea whats the date? Or year? I have only played it at home, Its nearly untouched and someone told me it was perhaps a collectors item.

Is it? Hi I really want to know more about my guitar. If someone knows something special about it I would really appreciate it. Can anyone help please? I bought some fender guitars in a storage auction. Please help Fender telecaster serial number Fender Stratocaster serial number V Telecaster and Strat are both mid 80s re-issue. Plays well. Any response it welcome. It was purchased new in or The serial number is N It is an American made Stratacaster.

CY cheers Ian. I have a strat with the number S do you know any page where i can check it? Hello, my guitar is an fender E series It has a Khaler bridge spyder on it and string clamp by the headstock. It has made in Japan printed on the back of the neck near the body end, under the neck it said ST Can anyone help me to identify if this is original from Fender.

Any information would help. Many Thanks Mike. A long time guitar buddy of mine passed away a couple years ago and I acquired one of his Fender Telecasters. This one does not have any serial info on the head stock but I did find two different dates in , on the neck heel and one date on the body under the neck. Also located on the body there is a 5 digit serial number — no letters, just 5 numbers.

The twist is: along with the single coil at the neck it has a big humbucker in the bridge pickup location; not the diag single coil common to most telecasters. Along with this info I should add that the body seems to be made of Mahogany with what might be an overlay of a different wood on the front for the sake of the semi transparent candy apple red finish which shows off the wood grain underneath—which then feathers out to solid red around the edge.

There is a very slight metalic to the deep red finish. I ended up writing a small novel trying to explain this instrument… And thanks in advance for any advice… DWrightB.

How can I find out in which year it has been produced?? And to find certificate about it?? Thanks in advance. The serial number is , the stamp on the heel of the neck looks like There is also a name stamp on the neck housing that looks like D. I bought it in Los Angeles in at a store called Guitar Guitar? Any help you can offer would be much appreciated. Thank you. I have a Fender Strat — Serial No.

It says it is Made in USA. Cherry Red with brass controls and bridge. White plastic pickups. The first two digits of the number identify the year of manufacture, 10 for , 11 for , etc.

The following six digits are the unit identifier, although it should be noted that these final six numbers are not sequential and do not provide any other identification information about the instrument. This new scheme is now used on the majority of U. If you have what you consider an odd serial number, it might appear here. Some may have stayed in the U. A limited number of these "H", "I" and "K" series guitars were made in '89 and ' They were made for the export market and have Made in USA stamped on the heel of the neck.

Serial numbers are on the front of the headstock. Sold as a promotional 3 piece set with a Blonde Deluxe Reverb Amp. The "L" series. These serial numbers were included between "L" and the series L9xxxx, and they grew once again in a way not perfectly linear with the dates on the neck. Despite these serial numbers are found until just beyond the middle of , they can appear also on some Stratocasters. The "F" Series. Despite these neck plates appeared in mid , until the beginning of the following year the last ones belonging to the "L" series were also used, in order to finish all the neck plates in stock.

Due to the strong increase in the production of the Stratocasters of this period, the serial numbers leapt from the 1xxxxx series to the 7xxxxx series in just eleven years.

Serial Numbers on the headstock. In late Fender stopped engraving the serial number on the neck plate and printed it, together with other decals, on the front of the headstock. The new code was composed by seven numbers, of which the first two indicated the year of production and the other five identifying the guitar.

From , serial numbers are found on the bridgeplate or vibrato backplate. From , the serial numbers are found on the neckplate, both top or bottom of the plate. From to date, the serial number appears with the peghead decal. Vintage Reissues have their serial numbers on the neckplate and have been in use since The Fender company also stamped, or handwrote, the production date on the heel of the neck, in the body routs, on the pickups, and near the wiring harness, the body, pickup, and wiring dating was only done sporadically, during certain time periods.

However, the neck date and body date indicate when the neck or body part was completed! Fender produces necks and guitar bodies separately, and bolts the two together during final production. Therefore, the date on the neck will generally be weeks or months before the actual production date. When trying to determine the manufacturing date of an instrument by serialisation, it is best to keep in mind that there are no clear cut boundaries between where the numbers began and when they ended.

There were constant overlapping of serial numbers between years and models. The following are approximate numbers and dates. Instead, an L preceded a 5 digit sequence. It ran this way from to This series of numbers went from to The following are rough approximations for the years to Early to Late series Late to Late series Mid to Mid series Mid to Late series In late , Fender decided to move to a new numbering scheme for their serialisation.