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Fender began negotiations with several Japanese musical instrument distributors and reached an agreement with Yamano Gakki and Kanda Shokai to establish Fender Japan. The higher priced Fender guitars were made in the United States and could not compete with the lower prices of Japanese made Fender copies. Certain styles and colors have come and gone over the years, but there is no real obvious way to tell how old a Fender is other than the identification number. Victor Squier started his own hand-wound strings, and the business grew so fast that he and his employees improvised a dramatic increase in production by converting a treadle sewing machine into a string winder capable of 1,000 uniformly high-quality strings per day. In the early 1980s, Japanese labor and production costs are much lower than in America and compete with the Japanese guitars, Fender moved the cheaper Fender guitar production from America to Japan. For some reason, during the years 1955, 1957, and 1958 Fender decided to zero or a dash in front of the ID numbers at regular intervals. Early USA made Squiers had a 00XXXX serial number of the stamp on the neckplate with no letter prefix and no serial number on the headstock. They featured a high gloss maple neck with both rosewood and maple fingerboard options and a slimmer 40mm body. The low and high columns show the range of identification numbers that matched a positive effect on certain years. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation entered the picture in the 1950s, when the V. C. Squier Company began supplying the California inventor and businessman Leo Fender with strings for his unusual new electric guitars. The V. C. Squier Company became an official original equipment manufacturer for Fender in 1963. Modern Fender production guitars, 1976 until the present day, their ID numbers on the front or back of the headstock near the Fender decal. Squier strings of a violin, banjo, strings, and guitar strings became well known nationwide and were especially popular with students because of their cheap price. Over time the Squier series slowly evolved to include original model designs and production has. of Japan to various other Asian countries such as Korea, China, and Indonesia The serial number is on a sticker on the back of the neck, near where the neck attaches to the body. Only with the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced cheaper guitars based on its main Stratocaster and Telecaster models and always had different model designs for its lower-priced guitars.

Not to follow all of these guitars " ID numbers, the unique number, the order of the regular production guitars. Unfortunately, the serial number placement is sporadic and many ID numbers over lap between years and models. Dartford Kent, was the sole Fender distributor in the UK, The case containing these Fender guitars. After the neck is finished, a Fender employee either stamp or handwrite would the date on the end of the guitar neck on his heels. This allows the Fender less picky with the choice of alder, as the sunburst is less transparent. He began with a sequence of serial numbers for all the guitars coming out of Fender production lines including Teles, Esquires, Strats, and P basses. Fender was apparently thinking in the long term, because you developed a sequential numbering system with one-letter codes, the figures of identification. Few Fender guitars have dates written on the body, under the pickups, the rooms routed hollow, and in the vicinity of the wiring harnesses.

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Kanda Shokai owned the Greco brand and one of the conditions of the Fender Japan agreement was that Kanda Shokai cease production of its own Greco Fender copies. You see the problem? There were a few years where excess headstock ID number decals were produced and held over the next few years, some guitars are actually dated with a previous year decal. Please improve this by secondary or tertiary sources. (March 2015) ( Learn how and when you remove this template message ). Here's a guide to look up all the different types of special Fender guitars with their own serial number pattern. She decided it would be easier to decipher the Codes serial number than the year of write on the guitar. This arrangement benefited Fender because it is the Greco Fender copies from the Japanese market, the sold were made in Japan at much lower prices than the American fenders and it is also the Kanda Shokai benefited, because Kanda Shokai could then distribute Japanese made Fender branded guitars in Japan. In 1975, Squier was corpses register as a manufacturer and brand of strings, Fender opted for the marketing of its strings under the Fender brand. Squier guitars were made in Japan, Korea, Mexico, India, Indonesia, China and the United States. Fender mass-produced the headstock decal without matching with the annual production schedules of the guitars that you are more decals for a given year than guitars. Note: the Tele neck on the left side has a straight end, and the Strat neck on the right side has a rounded end.