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Post subject: How do you look up serial numbers for year made
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:23 pm
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I'm sure this has been asked before but after searching for awhile thought I would post it. I have a srat serial number 521309. Think it may be a 76 but can't find a place to see.
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Post subject: Re: How do you look up serial numbers for year made
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:35 pm
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500,000s to 700,000s 1976

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Post subject: Re: How do you look up serial numbers for year made
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:44 pm
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Your guitar was made at the Fullerton plant in 1974.

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Post subject: Re: How do you look up serial numbers for year made
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:47 pm
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Also...note that neckplates are notoriously inaccurate as a dating tool, as they came from a big box on the bench, not a monitored dispenser. While you have the camera out...get pix of the neck heel markings, the neck slot stamps, and any date codes or initials from the body cavity, pickups, pots, etc.

The mid-70s were a chaotic time in the factory...there are many mongrel instruments out there...based on what you find, you may need to pick the oldest/newest/bestest marking to call "the date".

My "75" has a neckplate serial number in the 600,000 range, but the pickups and neck are from 1975..so that is what I call it.

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Post subject: Re: How do you look up serial numbers for year made
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 2:13 pm
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HeyJoe42 wrote:


My "75" has a neckplate serial number in the 600,000 range, but the pickups and neck are from 1975..so that is what I call it.

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And pots date codes ??? Could be 1976


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Post subject: Re: How do you look up serial numbers for year made
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:06 pm
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I'll place a bet on it being a 1975.

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