Read the pencil date or ink stamp on your Fender's neck heel to date the guitar to the month. A step-by-step neck-date guide from a vintage Fender appraiser.
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Find the pencil or ink date inside your Fender's body, in the neck pocket or cavities, and read it as a build date, from a vintage Fender appraiser.
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Read the maker and date code on your Fender's pots to date the guitar to the week. A step-by-step potentiometer dating guide from a vintage Fender appraiser.
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Read the pencil, ink, or numeric date on your Fender's pickup base to date the guitar. A step-by-step pickup dating guide from a vintage Fender appraiser.
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Date a vintage Fender from the parts you can see: logo, inlays, pickguards, saddles, tuners, and string trees, with the year each one changed.
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Date a vintage Fender Stratocaster from what you can see: the headstock, logo, board, dots and pickguard, year by year from 1954 to 1971.
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Date a vintage Fender Telecaster from what you can see: the guard, the bridge, the saddles, the board and the logo, year by year from 1950 to 1971.
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Date your vintage Fender Jazzmaster by neck, pickups, guards, hardware and serial numbers, with photographs and year-by-year changes from my archive.
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Date a vintage Fender Jaguar from what you can see: the inlays, the binding, the pickguard and the patent block, year by year from 1962 to 1975.
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