
- #Fender serial number lookup model serial numbers#
- #Fender serial number lookup model serial number#
- #Fender serial number lookup model serial#
I guess this is what the 1969 catalog refers to as “large, individual specially designed baffles.” And all along I thought the big n’ tall silverface cabs were just a macho thing to compete against the awesome looks of a Marshall half stack or full stack. I just discovered that the silverface Bandmaster speaker cabinet (the big, tall one without tilt-back legs) is ported (see photo). Later in 2009 they messed things up a bit as they had reached the end of the alphabet with the Z prefix.
#Fender serial number lookup model serial#
Early in 2009 the serial would have been Z8 or Z9 plus 5 or 6 digits. Since the early 80s theyve been quite consistent for USA made guitars though.
#Fender serial number lookup model serial number#
Enter the Fender's serial number and select if your guitar was made in USA, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Indonesia or China. Fender has info on their website too, but as MrTwang says, for some years serial number are not that exact. These include the top of the neck plate, somewhere on the headstock, on the bridge plate or the back of the neck near the body. Note the removal of the voltage selector switch and hard-wiring. There are a number of possible locations for the serial number on a Fender guitar. Mid-1968 Super Reverb export model modified by Hagstrm for the Swedish market. By searching any provided Model Number online, you can obtain details and specifications on the product. If the search does not produce any results, then we are unable to provide any further information on the instrument.

Feel free to bookmark the link for future reference, and please be aware that not every serial number is entered in our database. They were something to behold, all chatting away while soldering so quickly, it didn't hardly seem like they were looking at the amps.Īfter that the foreman would add the tubes, turn 'em on and set the bias.” Export models – We’ve confirmed that Fender amps were distributed by Hagstrm in Sweden. Fender is proud to now offer self-service serial number search function.

#Fender serial number lookup model serial numbers#
Well, this universal “truth” was debunked when we found a bunch of amps with transformers made by the Better Coil and Transformers company.įor instance, he confirmed our assumption that the amp chassis were put into stock after being stamped with serial numbers and that the chassis were pulled from the stock bins randomly (just as with Fender guitar neck plates). These are marked with EIA code “606” which is the company number for Schumacher. The Australian Fender Distributor then installed 240V - 110V stepdown transformers in the bottom of the cabinets. One has to wonder where all those factory original export back panels are! Another interesting tidbit is that a lot of Fenders were imported into Australia in the late 1950s and early 1960s that were stock 110-volt (domestic US) units.
