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Post subject: A couple of Squier questions.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:08 pm
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Hello all new to the forum.

I got a Squire Strat in a trade a few months ago and love it for the most part. I have been trying to research it. For the life of me I cant find a serial number anywhere on this thing. I've read that the're typically located on the back of the head stock. Are there any other locations that the serial would be located?

I just recently found a odd ball Bullet Strat, bridge humbucker black face plate. It's a little banged up but the neck is straight and the sounds pretty decent. Serial number - e70627. Was this thing made in the states? The guy is selling it fort $50. Thanks in advance!


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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:27 pm
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Hi Glen, and welcome to the forum! I won't claim any real expertise on Squier serial numbers, but if I'm reading Wikipedia correctly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squier), you may indeed be looking at a US-made guitar with that E serial number. As for the other one, I've never seen a Squier serial number anywhere but on the back of the headstock. So I'm afraid I can't help out there. Someone else will undoubtedly swoop in with the answer soon. 8)

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:33 pm
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I have a few Squiers. The oldest of them has the serial number engraved on the top of the neck plate. Worth a look?


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I have seen the sn on the front of the headstock and the back of the headstock. It has to be somewhere. I have yet to see a counterfeit Squier.

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:11 pm
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I searched the whole thing over. Nothing on the neck plate. Took the back cover off and looked in there as well. The silk screen (?) logo looks fairly new...... Squier SRAT by Fender, small head stock. I'll post a pic of it when I can. Are there any other places they would put the SN? Like say at the base of the neck or somewhere on the body. Heck, I guess it doesn't really matter as longs as it sounds good! Thanks again!

I just might jump on that Bullet Strat, if it really was made in the states it might be worth something if not I'm only out 50 bucks.


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If you go to the Wiki-link posted earlier. Look in the US section, and it says that there was a year in which US Squier strats had the serial number in the neck-plate, and none on the head-stock. Could be that someone changed the neck-plate.

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Hi There!

I also have a P-Bass Squier Made in India with NO serial number anywhere....
but it's sound good!
i'm begining to think that i don't really need a serial number LOL....


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It sounds to me like the instrument is question is a "Squier Strat by Fender"...the kind you find in department stores such as Target around the holidays. I've seen a couple of these now where indeed there was no serial number. The truth of the matter is that these particular instruments are really little more than "toys" pretty much on par with brands such as "First Act", etc.. Scary as it sounds, even a $100 Squier "Bullet" is a superior instrument. These instruments are really designed for the mass public who don't know a thing about guitars. "Little Johnny" says he wants a guitar for Christmas so Mom and Dad go to Walmarts or Target and see one of these things on sale with an amp (typically an SP-15 which will blow up the first time it's plugged in) on sale for just $79.95 so they buy it. In most cases the kid will thump on it for a week or two until he gets bored (after all the X-Box he got is just so much cooler!), then it goes in to a closet for the next 10 years or so then it either gets tossed in the trash or put on Craigslist for $25.

Something I learned early on is that A LOT of people seem to be afraid to go in to a "real" music store. I dunno...I guess there's something intimidating about walking in to someplace such Guitar Center for the first time when you really have no clue at all what your doing. Even if Johnny's Dad did walk into a GC, chances are he'd see all of those "Strats" hanging on the wall (including those from Ibanez, Yamaha, Schecter, Laguna....)...many going from $400 to well over $1000 and not really understand the difference, then go back to Target and buy the $80 model. Hell...I'm 44 years old and I've been playing for over 25 years and my own father STILL doesn't know the difference! LOL!!!

I think that unless you actually play an instrument, it's simply something that most people really just don't understand. A number of years back my wife wanted a new microphone from her own parents for Christmas so I took them into the old "Sam's Music" (a now defunct local legend here in Cleveland)...I thought my wife's mother was going to wet herself she was so terrified! Being a "good Christian woman", I really think that she believed the devil was going to pop out of one of those big black boxes (aka a 4x12 cab) and steal her soul LOL!!! Of course, neither of her parents even knew such places existed...her father owned a little Harmony acoustic which of course had been purchased at a department store. I could tell by the look on their faces that they really just wanted to bolt for the door and hide....they were simply overwhelmed. Even if they had of known about this store, they really would not have had any clue at all what to get for my wife...there was after all, a whole display case full of microphones! Incidentally, the wife ended up with a Peavey "PVM-45"...which was infinitely superior to the Radio Shack "Highball" her folks were going to get her. She used that Peavey right up till the day I got her a Sennheiser and she still has that old Peavey as a "back up".



Anyways, I wouldn't sweat the serial number thing...it is what it is. If you enjoy playing it, just rock on dude! Worry about the serial numbers once you start looking at nicer instruments.

Just my $.02 worth,
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