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Post subject: 52 Telecaster and serial numbers...
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:47 am
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I bought a 52 telecaster years ago (06?).

Well, I was looking it over today and i noticed that the serial number was oddly just numbers.

Is this how it is supposed to be on the reissues? The serial number is just 5 digits. Could I have been playing a counterfeit tele this whole time and not known?

I looked up the number online here

http://www.guitardaterproject.org/fender.aspx

It says my guitar was built before 1964.

<---getting paranoid....


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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:13 pm
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That is correct; the '52 reissues do just have a number stamped on the bridge. I had a 2004 for a while; mine also had a certificate that had the serial number on it (pretty much the same thing Fender puts out with the Thin Skin guitars) since you could replace the bridge with the included 6-saddle model that would not have a serial number.

If you look up the Dating a USA Fender" on Fender's site under "Support" you will find that since 1988 Fender AV '52 Teles have had 5-digit serial number; however, no date ranges are listed.

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I guess that the numbers are now repeating the numbers Fender used in the late 50s/early 60s.
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