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Nov 29, 2018 Step #1 – Find your Serial Number. Finding your serial number on your Fender should be very easy. They are almost always on either the top of the neck plate (the piece of metal on the back of the guitar near the neck), on the headstock (the top part of the guitar where the strings attach), or close to the body at the bottom of the neck. Other than the 'Squier by Fender' there's nothing else printed on it. Dude says he bought it at a Sam Ash about 5 years ago when the store was going out of business. Sticker for the serial number is CAE.
Squier Bullet Special - Indonesia, Affinity Series (2/20) Squier Bullet Deluxe - Standard Series (8/2003-7/2004) Squier Rolling Rock Stratocaster - Indonesia, Limited Ed. Squier Standard Series (2003) 2004. Squier Black & Chrome Standard Stratocaster - Indonesia, Standard Series (1/2004-2013). These current serial numbers are arranged in a value-1976 digits-fender format A-xxxx-xx-xxxx-A. These are still found on stickers with a fender code on the back of the strat. For fender, a serial number of MB would indicate an amp made in England M in during the 38th week of the year, production number, set up for value in the United States B.
Subsidiary | |
Industry | Musical instruments |
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Founded | 1890 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States 1982 (Squier by Fender) |
Founder | Victor Carroll Squier |
Defunct | 1975–1982 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Electric guitars Bass guitars Acoustic guitars Guitar amplifiers |
Parent | Fender |
Website | squierguitars.com |
The V.C. Squier Company manufactured strings for violins, banjos, and guitars. It was established in 1890 by Victor Carroll Squier in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1965, the company was acquired by Fender. By 1975, Squier became defunct as a manufacturer and a brand name for strings, as Fender opted to market its strings under the Fender brand name.
In 1982, the Squier brand was reactivated by Fender to become its brand for lower priced versions of Fender guitars. Squier guitars have been manufactured in Japan, Korea, Mexico, India, Indonesia, China, and the United States.
History[edit]
V.C. Squier Company (1890–1975)[edit]
Jerome Bonaparte Squier, a young English immigrant who arrived in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the latter part of the 19th century, was a farmer and shoemaker who had learned the fine European art of violin making. He moved to Boston in 1881, where he built and repaired violins with his son, Victor Carroll Squier. To this day, their violins are noted for their exceptional varnishes, and they command high prices as fine examples of early U.S. instrument craftsmanship. Indeed, J.B. Squier ranks among the best-known U.S.-trained violin makers and is often referred to as 'the American Stradivarius.'
Victor returned to Battle Creek, where he opened his own shop in 1890. As his business grew, Squier moved the company to 429 Lake Ave. and eventually to 427 Capitol Ave, S.W.—the famous 'fiddle factory' of Battle Creek. With a limited market for violins in Battle Creek, however, Squier astutely sought relationships with national music schools and famous violinists.
Up to 1900, the best violin strings were made in Europe. Victor Squier started making his own hand-wound violin strings, and the business grew so quickly that he and his employees improvised a dramatic production increase by converting a treadle sewing machine into a string winder capable of producing 1,000 uniformly high-quality strings per day. Squier violin strings, banjo strings and guitar strings became well known nationwide and were especially popular among students because of their reasonable price.
In the 1930s, Squier began making strings for the era's new electric instruments; the company also sold pianos, radios and phonograph records until divesting itself of all string-related products in 1961. Fender Electric Instruments entered the picture in the 1950s, when the V.C. Squier Company began supplying Southern California inventor and businessman Leo Fender with strings for his unusual new electric guitars. The V.C. Squier Company became an official original equipment manufacturer for Fender in 1963. Fender acquired the V.C. Squier Company in early 1965, shortly before Fender itself was acquired by CBS in May of the same year. By the mid-1970s, the Squier name was retired as the strings had taken the Fender name.[1]
Squier Guitars (1982–present)[edit]
Before the Fender Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982, Fender was making lower priced guitars such as the Fender Lead series at its Fullerton, California plant. Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced lower priced guitars based on its main Stratocaster and Telecaster models and had always used different model designs for its lower priced guitars.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s Fender was facing competition from lower priced Japanese made guitars. The higher priced Fender guitars were made in the United States and could not compete with the lower prices of Japanese made Fender copies. In the early 1980s, Japanese labor and production costs were much lower than in America and to compete with the Japanese made guitars, Fender moved the lower priced Fender guitar production from America to Japan.
Fender was also losing sales in Japan to Japanese guitar brands such as Tōkai, Greco and Fernandes and the establishment of Fender Japan would benefit Fender sales in Japan, as well as overseas. Fender began negotiations with several Japanese musical instrument distributors and reached an agreement with Yamano Gakki and Kanda Shokai to establish Fender Japan. Yamano Gakki was known for once being part of Epiphone Japan. Kanda Shokai owned the Greco brand name and one of the conditions of the Fender Japan agreement was that Kanda Shokai cease production of its own Greco Fender copies. This arrangement benefited Fender because it removed the Greco Fender copies from the Japanese market, which were selling in Japan at much lower prices than the American made Fenders and it also benefited Kanda Shokai because Kanda Shokai could then distribute Japanese made Fender branded guitars in Japan. Further negotiations between Fender and Japanese guitar factories took place. Tokai was seriously considered to start building the first Japanese made Fenders, but after a breakdown in negotiations, FujiGen Gakki was chosen instead.[2]
The initial Squier models were launched on July/August 1982. Over time, the Squier series slowly evolved to include original model designs and production has moved from Japan to various other Asian countries such as Korea, China and Indonesia.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Fender Squier HistoryArchived July 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Fender Japan History'. Daeschler.com. Retrieved 2013-12-14.
External links[edit]
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In the late 80’s and 90’s Squiers were built in Korea. Below is information to help identify and determine the quality of these models.
Black Headstock Logo
Korean models with an all-black headstock logo will always have a thin laminated body. They are the lowest quality of all the MIK models. The black logo models were built between 1992 and 1995 with serial numbers starting with CN2, VN4, CN3, etc.
Silver Headstock Logo
The silver headstock logos were used on models built in the late 80s and on the CN2, CN3 and VN3 Fender Squier Series strats built in 1992 and 1993. The CN2, CN3 and VN3 Fender Squier Series Strats will have a silver Fender logo on the headstock with a small Squier Series in black near the end of the headstock. If it says Squier and not Fender in Silver on the headstock logo and its Korean it is an 80's model.
Most silver logo models will have full width laminate. This includes the CN/VN Fender Squier, the E9, S9 and S10 models. The exceptions to this are the 87' E7 and E10 models built by Young Chang
The Squier II models also came with silver headstock logos. They include strats with E9, S9, M1 and J1 serial numbers. The Squier IIs were the only silver logo Squiers to come with a thin laminate body.
Gold Headstock Logo
All gold logos will be a full width alder body or it will be ash if it’s a ProTone.
Gold logo Squiers were built stating in mid-1995. The CN5, VN5, VN6 VN7, KV97, KV98 and the ProTones will have gold logos. All have full width wood bodies.
Gold logo Squiers were built stating in mid-1995. The CN5, VN5, VN6 VN7, KV97, KV98 and the ProTones will have gold logos. All have full width wood bodies.
Fretboard Radius
1987 models are all 9.5” radius.
From 1988 to mid-1995 all are 12” radius.
Starting with the VN/CN gold logo models in mid-1995 the radius is 9.5”
All other MIK strat/tele models built from mid-1995 until the end of 1998 have a 9.5” radius.
From 1988 to mid-1995 all are 12” radius.
Starting with the VN/CN gold logo models in mid-1995 the radius is 9.5”
All other MIK strat/tele models built from mid-1995 until the end of 1998 have a 9.5” radius.
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Korean Years
Strats, Telecasters, Bullets, P-Basses and Jazz Basses were built from 1987 to 1998.
Stagemaster and Showmaster models where built from 1999 to 2002.
The 24 Series models were built from 2002 to 2004.
The Master Series models where built from 2004 to 2007.
Stagemaster and Showmaster models where built from 1999 to 2002.
The 24 Series models were built from 2002 to 2004.
The Master Series models where built from 2004 to 2007.
Factories
Fender Squier Serial Numbers Indonesia
During the mid-90's Squiers were built at two factories. They had serial numbers starting with CN and VN. For instance CN5, VN6, etc.
In 1996 the CN factory moved to making ProTone models.
In 1996 the CN factory moved to making ProTone models.
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The VN factory kept building VN models into 1997(VN7). In mid 1997 the VN factory changed over to building KV97 models. Which were the same as the VN7 models except that the logo on the headstock was changed and the serial number was moved from the headstock to back of neck near the neck plate. They later moved on to building KV98 models which were the last Korean Squiers built.