Jul 12, 2018 If you'd rather not unscrew the neckplate and look at the date in the neck pocket, you can call or email Fender at consumerrelations@fender.com with the serial number and they will look it up in their database and tell you the date of manufacture and specs of your guitar. Product Dating Find out exactly when your instrument or amplifier was manufactured.
Although a serial number is helpful for roughly determining the age of a guitar, this is often not the exact date. Usually, the production date is stamped or written is on the heel of the neck. To read this it is necessary to unscrew the neck from the body.
Most specifications for the Fender guitars are hardly changed. Although there have been periods in which major changes occurred as the acquisition of Fender by CBS, and the transition from CBS Fender to the current owner (Fender Musical Instruments Corporation), most models are in general not changed.
Fender Guitar Serial Number Dating Sites
At the Stratocasters from the early fifties the serial numbers were stamped on the back vibrato cover. On some Telecasters at the bridge between the pickup and the saddles.
| Patent numbers Between 1960 and 1977, were added several patent numbers to the models. These became in the head under the Fender logo stamped. | e.g. PAT, 2,573,254 2,968,204 3,143,028 2,976,755 DES 187304 2,573,254 for pickup and bridge combination. 2,968,204 for the single coil pickup patent awarded in 1961 under other for Jaguar, Stratocaster, Duosonic. 3,143,028 the patent granted in August 1964 for Fender's adjustable neck construction. 2,976,755 for the split coil pickup design. (Used since 1957 to the Precision Bass) The DES is the serial number. |