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Post subject: Fender Squier Strat date/country of origin!
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:38 pm
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I just got a Fender Squier Strat very cheap! It does not have any serial number anywhere on it (looked on the front/back of neck, under pickguard, and under the neck joint). I have some closeups of the neck removed from the body. I also have some photos of the body and inside the pickguard!

The only markings on it are found on the back of the neck as seen in the photos. My question is, where is this guitar made? What year is it? Thank you very much!

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Post subject: Re: Fender Squier Strat date/country of origin!
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:12 pm
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That's strange that there's no serial number on it. Perhaps it had one on the neck plate, but then it was swapped out with one that was blank? I don't know how you can identify, unless those numbers on the neck can provide someone a clue. I have a link to a website that features Japanese made Squiers (pre Fender Japan, or what became the Japanese made Fenders,) but I don't think that would help. Those typically had serial numbers on them.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Squier Strat date/country of origin!
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 11:38 am
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Nope, that's not from Japan, nor from Mexico.

I'm sure there was a serial number (back of headstock, not the neck plate), but some previous owner removed it.
If there's no writing on the frontside ball end of the headstock, it's from a "pack". Originally sold with a small amp, gig bag, cable & whatnut embellishments. Those are often Called "Squier SE", and they're quite liked - cheap, playable, easy to mod if one wants to.
The output jack is worth checking: the nut is tight & the wires not twisted & solderings OK.


The soldering, pots, ceramic pickups, "import" type switch look original.
Without any date markings or serial, my best guess for when it was built would be Y2K, plus/minus five years.
And manufactured in China or Indonesia.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Squier Strat date/country of origin!
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 5:59 pm
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Yeap. Definitely what the previous post stated.

My guess is that it's probably one of those Squiers that come in a "player's pack", meaning an amp, the guitar, cable, strings and a strap. I've read that those usually have no serial numbers.

Anyway, it is really nice to see that we're living in a time when it is possible to get a pretty DECENT guitar (like yours), well built, shielded, playable as any other, for a fair price.

I own a $100 and something Washburn acoustic that is just the same... A very good guitar for a couple of bucks.

What you got there is not only a nice strat, but also a potential mod platform which can become virtually anything you want it to become...

Cheers!


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Post subject: Re: Fender Squier Strat date/country of origin!
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 9:39 pm
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We certainly have come a long way from the 3/4" slab "student guitars" and cheap plywood bodies of the 70s and 80s.

My first guitar was a Les Paul copy. Plywood body, and they didn't even try to disguise it with opaque paint, it was the same transparent wine red they used on the top.
Oh... and the top wasn't even a cap... the body was an LP shape, and the top was a piece of 1/8" ply that had been heat-pressed to shape like a cheap archtop. The wiring was run through the gap between the top and the body! Bound body, neck, and even the headstock, but the headstock was blank, and it had a zero fret.

But it played ok for what it was, and the pickups worked just fine. It was a fun guitar for a year or so while I saved the bucks for my '78 Strat.

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