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Post subject: Re: Just How Many ??
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:09 pm
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The best one could hope for would be a very rough estimate.

Bluesky is essentially correct with respect to detail info on each serial number. But that doesn't negate the existence of all data beyond a specific time period. However, the further back you go the more obscured things become.

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Post subject: Re: Just How Many ??
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:16 pm
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mhowell wrote:
The best one could hope for would be a very rough estimate.

Bluesky is essentially correct with respect to detail info on each serial number. But that doesn't negate the existence of all data beyond a specific time period. However, the further back you go the more obscured things become.


I seriously doubt many records exist from the Leo era except for the few that always pop up in books. Most if not all of the people involved then are dead so any personal data they may have had is probably gone too. Since Bill Shultz got very little from CBS when he bought the company from them in 1985, I doubt they gave him any their records either. It might be possible to come up with a number back to 85 but anything else is highly improbable.

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Post subject: Re: Just How Many ??
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:09 pm
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So yeah, it also makes ya wonder how many are out there not being used.


Actually, it doesn't. :lol: Wondering such a thing is analagous to wondering how many blades of grass are on your front lawn. Useless information.



Analagous- that is a big word. You are smart.


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Post subject: Re: Just How Many ??
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:13 pm
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I think 6000 a week may be a realistic figure... :?

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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:43 pm
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So that's one heck of a bunch of guitars. Yeah thinking of the millions of Fender guitars out there-- it's almost like everyone must have one. *disclaimer= I say that in a humoristic (big word) way. I am in no way saying that everyone has a Fender guitar EVEN THOUGH there are probably as many Fender guitars out there as there are blades of grass in my yard. I have a big#$@ yard too.
Some good reading to help get an idea of how Fender operated in the beginning up untill 1967 is "The Fender Inside Story" by Forrest White. You will see and read things in the book about production and orders. It's obvious in running the company that they did keep track of orders and production and purchases , how many shipped and other common business procedures and practices. Had they known just how many guitars they would produce in the future they may have done things a little differently . I'd say at one time there were records of how many guitars etc shipped. Where those records are or if they were destroyed or whatever - I don't know. Maybe they no longer exist . Again .. who knows?


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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:09 pm
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We can start narrowing it down. Less than a Billion?


Fewer than a billion.

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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:14 pm
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Somewhere between 37 band 8,345, 278.


With all due respect, I think that 37 is way too low....just look at CRGuitarman's collection for starters 8)

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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:58 pm
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It's kind of useless to keep pondering this because by the time you fully count them all, it has changed. And you wont be able to count them all in the first place so....

I actually just found a number... 9,822,223

That's 100% accurate as of May 23, 2009.

Prove me wrong. Can you? No, because nobody knows and nobody gives enough of a $$@$ to do the work.


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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:15 pm
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GilgaFrank wrote:
Deluxe Matt wrote:
We can start narrowing it down. Less than a Billion?


Fewer than a billion.


Are you correcting my grammar or agreeing with me?

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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:23 pm
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I care about how many millions of guitars Fender made and I want to ponder it a long time . Like maybe a couple weeks. I'm willing to go along with "less than a billion". That sounds like a good number to me. I wonder how many sets of strings are sold for guitars in one year all over the World ? Can anyone tell me how many Duncan pickups are in circulation?
How many gallons of gas are sold in the US every day>>>??>>>>oops, that's not music related.

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Post subject: Re: Just How Many ??
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:29 pm
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Deluxe Matt wrote:
GilgaFrank wrote:
Deluxe Matt wrote:
We can start narrowing it down. Less than a Billion?


Fewer than a billion.


Are you correcting my grammar or agreeing with me?


Bit of both!

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Post subject: Re: Just How Many ??
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:52 pm
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Well then, thank you. :D

It's hard being from the south and maintaining any sense of grammar, when all you hear all day is hillbilly-bonics. But that is still no excuse! :oops:

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In the case of this thread, it is speculating on the number of guitars Fender produced since the dawn of (their) time. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Just How Many ??
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 5:07 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I read a while ago that Fender produced about 6,000 guitars a day. I'm pretty sure that covers all of their brands. That's an unbelievable number to me, being just a country hick. So I reckon the answer is,
a whole bunch! :D


+1, I reckon :D

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