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.įor starters, there's the Reverb Price Guide which has thousands of entries with pictures and details on various guitars and other gear.
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. 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 by clicking on this link. 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. 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. Features like bolt-on necks and pickups wired into the pickguard all helped the Fender factory churn out guitar after guitar, day after day. His guitars were built en masse by an entire factory, not a single luthier toiling over one instrument at a time. Like Henry Ford, part of Leo Fender's genius was in optimizing the company's production efficiency.
Fender began negotiations with several Japanese musical instrument distributors and reached an agreement with Yamano Gakki and to establish Fender Japan.The most important thing to keep in mind when dating a Fender is the highly modular nature of the designs. Fender was also losing sales in Japan to Japanese guitar brands such as, and and the establishment of would benefit Fender sales in Japan, as well as overseas.
In the early 1980s, Japanese labour and production costs were much lower than in America and to compete with the Japanese made guitars, Fender moved the lower priced Fender guitar production from America to 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. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Fender was facing competition from lower priced Japanese made guitars. Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced lower priced guitars based on its main and models and had always used different model designs for its lower priced guitars.
Squier Guitars (1982-present) Before the Fender Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982, Fender was making lower priced guitars such as the at its plant.
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