Fender Srv Stratocaster Serial Numbers

The Serial Number Problem The difficulty in determing where your SRV Strat fits into the production line lies in the fact that Fender serial numbering, apparently, has only to do with internal stock control and not particular dates of manufacture.

This new scheme uses the letters “US” as a prefix to designate an instrument made in the United States, followed by an eight-digit number. The first two digits of the number identify the year of manufacture, (10 for 2010, 11 for 2011, 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.S.-made Fender instruments, with exceptions including the American Vintage series and certain special-run instruments. Signature Series Instruments SE(XXXXXX) SN(XXXXXX) SZ(XXXXXX) SE8(XXXXX)-1988, SE9(XXXXX)-1989 SN0(XXXXX)-'90, SN1(XXXXX)-’90, SN2(XXXXX)-’92, etc.

SZ0(XXXXX)-2000, SZ1(XXXXX)-2001, SZ2(XXXXX)-2002, etc. EDIT: Took too long to type; this adds to mxvin's info: Where are you looking for the serial number information? A lot of the guitar dater type sites have never caught up with Fender's serial changes. Fender changed their serial number format in 2010, abandoning the 'Letter + number' prefix that you decoded for the year. From January to March of 2010 the format was a '10' followed by 6 digits (so it looked like 10xxxxxx) - and the '10' doesn't look that different from the other 6 digits.

Around the end of March/early April they adopted the 'US10' followed by 6 digit format (so it looks like US10xxxxxx) and that 'US10' part is bolder and in a different font than the remaining 6 digits. So 'US11xxxxxx' is a legit serial number for a Fender made from roughly March 2011 through March 2012 - as the number prefix now 'changes over' in March of a given year for USA guitars. The other thing Fender did in 2010 was drop the 'extra prefixes' that they were using on Artist models and American Deluxe models. Artist models used to have an 'S' in front of the letter that indicated the decade, so in the case of musicman10_1's SRV his serial number was 'SZ1xxxxx'. Bradley hand bold italic font.

You would decode that as 'S' for 'Signature', 'Z' for 'Zeros' or '200x', and the '1' made it '2001'. Fender had used that format since the original Artist Signatures were introduced in 1988.

Similarly they added a 'D' before the other letter for American Deluxe models - so a 1999 American Deluxe would have a 'DN9xxxxxx' serial number, a 2005 would have a 'DZ5xxxxxx' number, etc. As I say those were dropped when they started using the new number formats in 2010.

The most important thing to keep in mind when dating a Fender is the highly modular nature of the designs. Like Henry Ford, part of Leo Fender's genius was in optimizing the company's production efficiency. His guitars were built en masse by an entire factory, not a single luthier toiling over one instrument at a time.

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Features like bolt-on necks and pickups wired into the pickguard all helped the Fender factory churn out guitar after guitar, day after day. This also means that various parts used on a particular guitar may have come from different points in time, so no single number can absolutely define when the instrument was built. Instead, the best approach to dating a Fender is to combine indicators from the design of the instrument, the dates found on the neck and body, along with the serial number.

Once you have the information you need, if you're interested in selling your Fender, you can use Reverb to get it in front of the largest audience of musicians in the world Design Changes and Features Perhaps the best place to start when dating your Fender is to get an approximate idea of the era based on the instrument's design and components. This can be a tall order for someone less versed in guitar history, but we do have some resources here on Reverb to help you out. For starters, there's the Reverb Price Guide which has thousands of entries with pictures and details on various guitars and other gear.

Some browsing around the can definitely help you find which model you have. We also have some other blog posts related to Fender that can hopefully be of some help. There's and that follows the evolution of the most popular Fender guitar of all. Similarly, take a look at for general timeline of the history of everyone's favorite offset guitar. For Fender during the turning point era of the mid-'60s, check out Body and Neck Dates Through much of Fender's production history, Fender workers would print or write a production date on both bodies and necks where the two pieces meet. These dates will tell when the original part was manufactured, but are not exact indicators of when the guitar was actually put together and finished. Here is what the neck date and body date look like from a 1952 Telecaster: If you're not comfortable removing the neck of a guitar to peek at the date marker, I encourage you to take it to a local tech or luthier.