Identification and dating of Fender® Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jazz Bass guitars

Looking to date a Fender® guitar? Date a Fender with your guitar's manufacturing serial number? (fender stratocaster serial number identifier) The model or series of the guitar in the range according to the period/date of manufacture? Fender has provided a search engine to find the origin and production date of your Fender guitar or bass made in USA or made in Mexico in its database since the production period dating back to the 1960s.

This search engine allows you to date a Fender® guitar by serial number, to identify guitars manufactured in each of the group's factories including the Custom Shop in the FMIC serial number database. However, it seems that Squier-type and older Asian-made guitars are not indexed in the database, including models made in Japan.

Find and date your Fender guitar by consulting the Fender database.

How to identify and date your Fender guitar with its serial number? In addition to the search engine made available by Fender, to find out more about the history of the numbering of Fender guitars and the identification of vintage Fender type Strat®, Tele®, Jaguar , Jazz Bass and other limited series, and To better know how numbering works, please consult the detailed tables in our blog. You will find the serial numbers of Fender guitars since their creation in 1952.