That I can date my Stevie Ray Vaughan Strat by the serial number? Would be an '89, but they didn't start making the SRV Strats until '92.

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'. 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.

Click to expand.Generally speaking sometime in the 1990s. The first number should be the approximate year. If for example the serial number was 'SN7XXXXX' the number would be read like this: 'S' - Signature series 'N' - 'Nineties' (likewise 'E' is for 'Eighties' and 'Z' is for 'Zeros' or 2000s) '7' - year 7, so it would have been made in 1997 'XXXXX' - actual sequential number of the decal (not necessarily the guitar) Fender typically uses the decals up; they don't throw away any remaining 1997 (in this example SN7XXXXX) decals on January 2, 1998. You really have to pull the neck and see the dates written or stamped on the neck heel and on the body in the neck pocket to find out when the guitar was really made. FYI - Fender had a bunch of SE8XXXXX and SE9XXXXX decals and they used them well into the 1990s on Clapton, Malmsteen, SRV and Beck Strats; I believe it was 1993 or 1994 before they caught up to the actual year. Download wiiflow 43 e. EDIT: Well based on Mike's guitar Fender was still using the SE9XXXXX decals at least as late as April 1993 when his guitar's neck was made; and the neck was made 6 months before the guitar was assembled (or at least the body was made - don't they date bodies just before assembly?). It just proves you really have to remove the neck and check the dates with Fenders.

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