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Post subject: Finding out the year of a guitar though its Serial number
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:23 am
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Hi,

just got an old Strat from a friend, American Standard Series. How can i find out the exact model and year of the guitar

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Gjal


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Post subject: Re: Finding out the year of a guitar though its Serial numbe
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:27 am
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Hi

You could post pics and chances are it will be identified here, as for the year that will usually be revealed too lol.

Another thing is to input the serial no in guitar dater assuming its not a fake.

Cheers Al


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Post subject: Re: Finding out the year of a guitar though its Serial numbe
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:18 pm
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The s/n should begin with a letter. That letter and the first digit combine to form the s/n year. E8 for example would be 1988, N1 would be 1991, etc. It's not always 100% accurate though as I have 2 1989 Am Stds (by neck stamp) and they both have E8 (1988) s/n's. To compound the issue, for the very early Am Stds (1987-88) the factory used up the leftover 1984 s/n decals, so many of those are E4s.


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Post subject: Re: Finding out the year of a guitar though its Serial numbe
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:59 pm
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Click on the support button up top and go down to product dating and you can look there for your s/n.


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