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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:00 pm
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Anyone know where I might find information concerning the amount of guitars sold by fender yearly since about the 50's? any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:15 pm
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Here a link with some Fender history. Otherwise, it is going to be really tough to get an accurate account on Fender's production numbers.

http://www.musicplayer.com/mpLandingCon ... t_id=30831


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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:24 am
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Especially since it is a private company. They don't have to publish financial or production information. That is privileged.

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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:21 pm
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I checked the US Census Bureau's industry surveys (2002 and 1997) for NAIC code 339992 (musical instrument makers other than toys) but there's no breakout for Fender (2002) and only a reference to Fender having about 50% of the US domestic market in 1997.

NAMM may have statistics, but these would only be available to NAMM members. But because Fender, as mentioned, is private, I doubt they'd have any kind of detailed breakdown though. About the best you could do is to search Federal filings for gross revenue and you could also find their annual employment levels. Using that and estimated prices in a given year, you could possibly derive a very crude estimate of sales.


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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:30 pm
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I don't recall ever reading any production numbers being made public buy Fender. I would think those numbers are kept close to home. Just one more thing to help maintain value. Mystery how many are there.

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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:08 pm
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jeffo46 wrote:
Why would you want to know this? The amount must be in the millions.


Yep....and our very own alainlafrance owns most of them :!: :P :P

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jeffo46 wrote:
Why would you want to know this? The amount must be in the millions.


Though everytime we get someone here claiming to have a 1954 or '55 Strat, it would be very interesting to know just how many were actually made that year.

I bet the Company has records, and I don't really see a reason they'd need to keep them secret, at least as regards the early years...

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:45 pm
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I think I can help a little bit. I know they sold at least 1 in 2007.


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