GEMINI SERIES (ACOUSTIC GUITARS IMPORTED FROM KOREA, DISTRIBUTED IN THE U.S. Solid spruce top, sycamore back and sides SX/CX SERIES (ACOUSTIC GUITARS IMPORTED FROM KOREA) MODEL Solid spruce top, solid maple back and sidesĪG SERIES (ACOUSTIC GUITARS IMPORTED FROM KOREA) MODEL Solid spruce top, solid rosewood back and sides Solid spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides SPRING HILL SERIES (HANDMADE FENDER ACOUSTIC GUITARS MADE IN SPRING HILL, TENN. Solid spruce top, mahogany back and sides Solid spruce top, rosewood back and sides DG SERIES FENDER ACOUSTIC GUITARS (IMPORTED FROM CHINA, INDONESIA AND KOREA) MODEL This guide can help you determine the approximate age of your instrument, what the price range was during its years of production or what it sold for in the last year it was available, and what woods were used in its construction. Unknown information is indicated with a question mark. The information contained in this guide was culled from our archives of Fender price lists and catalogs, beginning with 1968. Although the tables below are as accurate as possible, serial numbers of these acoustic guitars have never been archived and are of no assistance when attempting to date these instruments. Here’s a link to a great webpage that has compiled the dating list for Fender Serial Numbers.Unfortunately, our records are not complete enough to provide precise dating information for many Fender acoustic guitars from the early 1960s through the 1970s and 1980s. Many silverface and some blackface amps have the exact week, month and year stamped insie the chassis. Based on the last number (45), it’s safe to say it was made in late 1974. For example, if your silverface super reverb has transformer codes all from 1974, it was made in 1974! Let’s say the weeks are 27, 29, 33, 41. Use the latest one to give you a good idea of when it was made. They are all usually within a few months of each other. This code can be found on the power transformer, output transformer, choke, and reverb transformer. If it’s a silverface amp, that 6 indicates 1976. Now if it’s a blackface amp, it’s a safe bet that 6 means 1966. In the above example, the transformer was made in either 1966 or 1976, week 45. The first of the three digits tells us the last digit of the year (unfortunately not decade specific) and the last two numbers tell us the week. The date is in the last three digits, after the 606 –. Most post tweed Fenders had trannys manufactured by Schumacher. If your tweed champ is stamped HH, it was made in 1958/August.Īnother way to get a close estimate of when your amp was made is to read the codes on the transformers. So if your blackface amp has a date code stamp of OB, it was made in 1965/February. The tube chart date code works like this: the first letter indicates the year and the second letter indicates the month. Up until the end of the blackface era (1967), all amps left the factory with a tube chart that had a two letter date code stamped on it. There are some exceptions and some overlap, but the general idea is this: Tweeds (early 50’s to very early 60s), Browns (1960 – 1962), Blondes (1962 – 1963), Blackface (1963 – 1967), and Silverface (1967 – 1981). First, to get a general idea,there’s the appearance/style of the amp. There are some easy ways to find out when your vintage Fender was manufactured. AB165 to AA864 'plus' tweed preamp for BLACKFACE AB165."1/2 Blackface" Mod for Ultralinear Fenders.
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