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DATING SQUIER GUITARS BY REFERENCE OF SERIAL NUMBERS

From 1982 Fender Squiers are also produced outside the USA, in that year the production startedin Japan. The Korean Fender Squiers were produced from 1988, but there were no serial numbers until mid-1993 documented. Other low-budget countries followed, like China, Indonesia and India.
The serial number registration of these countries also leaves sometimes to be desired.

Where to find the serial number
The serial number is generally stamped on the front or back of the headstock,or in some cases on the neck plate.

If you want to know the production year of your Squier guitar,you can decipher it with the serial number decoder, or find it in explanation about the dating system below.

In the early 1950s the company also started making strings for the electric guitars of Leo Fender and became in 1963 an official supplier
for Fender Electric Instruments. In 1965, shortly before the acquisition
of Fender by CBS, Fender purchased V.C. Squier Company.

Before the Fender Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982,
Fender made cheaper guitars such as the Fender Lead series at its
plant in Fullerton, California.

Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced low-priced guitars based on the Stratocaster and Telecaster models. He had always used different model designs for the cheaper models. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fender was faced with competition from cheaper Japanese guitars.
Japanese labor and production costs were much lower than in America, and to compete with, Fender moved the cheaper Fender guitar production from America to Japan.

Sales in Japan were disappointing, Fender could not compete with Japanese competitors such as Tцkai and Greco.
Fender started negotiations with various Japanese distributors of musical instruments and reached an agreement with Yamano
Gakki and Kanda Shokai to found Fender Japan.

One of the conditions of the agreement was that Kanda Shokai
stops producing its own Greco Fender guitars. Negotiations with Tцkai were interrupted and FujiGen Gakki was chosen.

The first Squier models appeared in August 1982.

Over time, the Squier series has slowly evolved and contains
original model designs. The production has also been moved from Japan to various other Asian countries such as Korea, China, Indonesia and India.
Victor Carroll Squier

The Squiers «Made in USA» have been produced since 1985 in Corona, California.
«Made in USA» – E = Eighties, 6 or 7 digits.
«Made in USA» – N = Nineties, 6 or 7 digits.

Some USA Squiers had no serial number stamped on the headstock but a number without a prefix on the neck plate.
A date with such a number is difficult to determine.

Made in Japan

Crafted in Japan

Made in Japan

In 1987 Fender opened the plant in Ensenada, Mexico where built amps and combos. The production of Squier guitars started here in 1991.
MN — M = Mexico, N = Nineties MZ — M = Mexico, Z = 2000’s
On February 11, 1994 the Ensenada plant burned down and production was temporarily moved to Corona.

CA – C = China A = Axl (made by Axl).
CD, CT en CJ – C = China. Probably made by Yako (Taiwan).

«Made in China»
CAE – 10 digits.
NC – 6 digits. YN – Y = Yako (Taiwan) N = Nineties, 6 digits.

«Crafted in China»
CY – C = China Y = Yako (Taiwan), 8 or 9 ditgits.
CY appears on all models produced in China and is by far the most common form.

CXS – C = China X = Axl S= Squier, 9 digits.
CGS – C = China G = factory code S= Squier, 7 or 8 digits.
CGRA, CGRB, CGRG, CGRH, CGRI, CGRJ, CGRK and CGRL
— C = China. GR = Grand Reward (factory)
— Last letter A, B, G, H, I, J, K, L = factory code , 8 digits.

COS – 8 digits.
COB – 9 digits.

Serial numbers with COS or COB prefix are Crafted by Cor-Tek, China.

Samick factory, Korea

The dating of the Korean instruments built before 1993 is uncertain because information about them is incomplete or missing.

Korean Squiers with a black logo on the headstock always have a thin laminated body. They are the lowest quality Korean Squiers. They were built between 1992 and 1995.
The serial numbers start with CN2, CN3 and VN4.

Silver logos were used for models built in the late 80s and for the Fender Squier Series strats, built in 1992 and 1993. These serial numbers start with CN2, CN3 and VN3.

Squiers with a gold-colored logo have an alder body or ash wood if it
is from the ProTone series.
The Squiers with a gold-colored logo were built from mid-1995.

Stratocasters, Telecasters, Bullets, P-Basses and Jazz basses were built from 1987 to 1998.
Stagemasters and Showmasters were built between 1999 and 2002.
The models from the 24 series were built between 2002 and 2004.
The Series 24 guitars were released by Fender in January 2002 in honor of Squier’s 20-year anniversary.
The Master Series models were built between 2004 and 2007.

«Made in Korea» and «Crafted in Korea»
CN — C = Cor-Tek (Cort) N = Nineties, 6 or 7 digits.
KC en KV — KC = Korean Cor-Tek (Cort), 8 digit. KV = Korean Saehan(Sunghan), 8 digits.

«Made in Korea»
VN — V = Saehan(Sunghan) N = Nineties, 6 or 7 digits.
S and E -S = Samick, 6 of 7 digits. E = Young Chang, 6 or 7 digits.
Squiers with prefix S and E are from the late eighties and early nineties.
E-letter serial numbers were used on Young Chang’s Fenix brand guitars.
M — 7 digits. Used in the early 90s, characterized by the high-gloss maple neck and plywood slim 40 mm body.

Some Squier IIs were made in India around 1989-1990, with
«MADE IN INDIA» on the headstock. The Squier IIs made in India seem to follow the numbering scheme in the USA.
The serial number is on a sticker on the back of the neck, close to the attachment point with the body.
Some more recent Squiers, including the Vintage Modified series
(the serial numbers start here with SH), were in Introduced in 2007.
The VM series has «Crafted in India» on the back of headstock.
With this VM series the serial number is stamped on the headstock
and therefore has no sticker.

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DATING ESP GUITARS BY REFERENCE OF SERIAL NUMBERS

The serial numbers of ESP guitars were not or hardly administered in the early days of production. Serial numbers from before 2000 are therefore unreliable for an exact date.

Where to find the serial number
The serial number is stamped on the back of the headstock, punched on the neck plate or on (semi) acoustic guitars on the bottom inside the body.

If you want to know the production year of your ESP guitar,you can decipher it with the serial number decoder, or find it in explanation about the dating system below.

ESP history in short

The founder of the ESP company is Hisatake Shibuya. He was born in 1937 in Sado on the island of the same name in Japan. After graduating from Doshina University in 1961, he joined the guitar manufacturer Kawai. After 4 years he joined Yamaha and later the guitar manufacturer Fernandes. During this period he gained a lot of experience and started his own company in Tokyo in 1975. The company where he employed 3 employees consisted of a shop and a workshop for repairs and making parts for guitars. Guitars were also made here on a special order, which were built to the individual wishes of the customer. The sale of the own-built guitars turned out to be a great success and the demand for them grew quickly. A few years later, the production facilities were therefore moved to larger premises just outside Tokyo. The company expanded and from 1979 orders for customized guitars were also produced worldwide. In 1981 ESP established itself in the USA with an office in New York and in 1983 in Germany for distribution in Europe. Also in 1983, Hisatake Shibuya started a ‘guitar making vocational school’, some graduates of which landed a job at ESP. ESP already had several hundred employees, but that number grew after a new plant was opened in 1986 in Sado Island. In 1985 George Lynch of the heavy metal band Dokken discovered during a tour in Japan that ESP also built custom guitars. As a result, his famous ESP Kamikaze was created and ESP released this George Lynch’s Kamikaze as his first signature model. In 1990, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett visited the ESP Custom Shop with the idea of building a model based on the mysterious Ouija board game. The first version was for Kirk only but had two spelling errors. Instead of «WILLIAM FULD TALKING BOARD», the Ouija body of this first version reads «WILLIAM FUED TALKING BAARD SET». The first batch of the Ouijas with Kirk signature were neck-thru and were released in 1993, destined for the Japanese market. Later the Ouija was introduced as a Bolt On guitar. The official introduction for export was in 1995. ESP gained fame by making guitars for trash metal guitarists including James Hetfield (Metallica), Scott Ian (Anthrax) and Jeff Hanneman (Slayer). As a result, ESP has become one of the most popular suppliers of heavy metal guitars. To keep costs down, the LTD series were now also made in Korea (later also in Indonesia, China and Vietnam) from 1996 and the export to the USA of the Japan-made LTD guitars stopped. However, despite the now increased prices, ESP resumed the export of the Japanese series to the USA in the early 2000s.

Hisatake Shibuya George Lynch with ESP kamikaze Kirk Hammett with ESP Ouija The top-quality ESP guitars are made in the ESP managed and operated factory in Japan, and the more affordable LTD line is made in various locations in Asia. The popularity and demand for ESP guitars continues to expand, with a new factory opened in North Hollywood, CA, USA in 2014 near the new Los Angeles headquarters. Here the line of ESP USA guitars is produced and was added to the existing well-known series of ESP as LTD and E-II series. ESP is constantly innovating both electric and acoustic models.