Custom shop serial numbers fender

Custom-design your own Fender instrument from your laptop, mobile device or favorite retailer. This guitar guide will help you lookup the Fender serial database and show your Telecaster age. For some, happiness is an aluminum-bodied Fender. Fender made the aluminum-bodied Harley Davidson Stratocaster in and later its metal brother, the Freddy Tavares Aloha Stratocaster.

Both instruments featured engraved, chrome-plated aluminum bodies. They are unlike anything Fender produced before or since. In addition to the aluminum American Standards, Fender made three other unusual aluminum-bodied Stratocasters in its California custom shop. The first has a shiny, chromed body, like the Harley, with a black Custom Shop pickguard and black headstock.

A near mirror image is the jet black aluminum Strat, with its black body, chrome pickguard and black headstock. Guy Named Sue likes this. Messages: 5. Edi5 , Nov 29, Messages: 4, Tone Guru , Nov 29, Age: 61 Messages: 37, R prefixed serial numbers started in when the Time Machine range was launched.

I think that the R numbers are unique to the Time Machine range, but this is Fender, so who knows? Before , most CS Strats seemed to have CN prefixed serial numbers - and of course they also got one of the two earlier decal types too. Oh, we've been dragged into a zombie thread, have we? Paperback Rocker likes this. For years, serial numbers have been used in various locations on Fender instruments, such as the top of the neck plate, the front or back of the headstock and the back of the neck near the junction with the body.

The chart below details Fender serial number schemes used from to Notice that there is quite a bit of overlap in numbers and years. Fender was sold to CBS in January The charts below detail the most common Fender serial number schemes from to the present. Once again, there is quite a bit of overlap in numbers and years. As seen in the overlap of numbers and years, even these references to actual production dates are rather loose.

The only way to definitively date U. CBS sold Fender in March Click Here. Home Forums Instruments Guitars in General. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Fender Custom Shop serial numbers.

Thread starter weezy Start date May 1, Messages Is there an online resource to search Fender custom shop serial numbers?

Google has been no help to me. KGWagner Member. Messages 3, Google is your friend.