Mesa Boogie Serial Number Lookup
One can distinguish the Pre-500 dual rectifiers by their serial number found on the back of the amp and should fall between # R-0001 to R-0506. The Express line of guitar amplifiers was released in 2007, and has essentially replaced the F-Series in the Mesa Boogie line up. Assembly instructions for bass amp head cabs can be obtained from Mesa/Boogie Customer Service. The serial number is also printed on the quality control card (if available) which may allow you to avoid dis-assembly.
- Mesa Boogie Amp Serial Number Lookup
- Mesa Boogie Amp Serial Number Lookup
- Mesa Boogie Serial Number Lookup
I emailed Mesa Boogie, but they don't have serial number dating for their older amps. The Serial number on my amp is IV2142. Anyone have an idea of when this one would have been produced?
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Just curious. The Mesa guy gave me this reply: Unfortunately we do not have an accurate serial number database especially for our older amps, therefore, not all amps can dated accurately.
However I would assume that your amp was built in the early 90's. I searched online and can't really find anything where someone has a manufacture date for anything with close to my serial number. Also tried a search here. Thanks for the help. I emailed Mesa Boogie, but they don't have serial number dating for their older amps. The Serial number on my amp is IV2142. Anyone have an idea of when this one would have been produced?
Just curious. The Mesa guy gave me this reply: Unfortunately we do not have an accurate serial number database especially for our older amps, therefore, not all amps can dated accurately. However I would assume that your amp was built in the early 90's. I searched online and can't really find anything where someone has a manufacture date for anything with close to my serial number.
Also tried a search here. Thanks for the help. Slide the chassis out of the cab. It will more than likely have a date written in magic marker pen somewhere from the testing stages. Mines a '92 with a 1500 serial range. It's got MB's initials and dates all over it.
How Old is My Fender Guitar? I often get asked, how old is my Fender guitar? Most of the time this question can't be answered specifically. The Fender numbers tell the story of the company over the years. Unfortunately, the serial number placement is sporadic and many ID numbers over lap between years and models. In many instances, there is no exact known date for a specific guitar.
That is why I decided to write this article. I want to help you understand how to tell the age of your Fender as well as any Fender you see. Fender like Gibson has been producing guitars for many years. Certain styles and colors have come and gone over the years, but there is no real obvious way to tell how old a Fender is other than the indentification number. Unfortunately, Fender decided not to simply write the date of manufacture on the guitar. They decided that it would be easier to decipher the serial number code than just write the year on the guitar. I say this only joking.
Most manufactures don't actually write the production dates on the guitar in plain view. First let's take a look at where to find ID numbers on a Fender guitar. Where do I find my Fender Serial Number? This article is intended to help you date your Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster, and Precision Bass guitars all the way back to the early 1950s. In order to tell how old your Fender is you will have to find the indentification number or neck number.
The serial number location has changed a few times of the years. From 1950 to 1954 Fender guitar unique numbers were stamped in the bridge cavity cover plate.
From 1954 to 1976 Fender stamped its guitar's serial number on either the top or bottom of the neck plate. Modern Fender production guitars, 1976 to the present, have their ID numbers on the front or back of the headstock near the Fender decal. In 1982 Fender decided to start making reissued vintage guitars.
These guitars were replicas of the early 1950 and 1960s era guitars. True to form the reissue guitars have their indentification numbers stamped in the neck plate. The serial numbers on the outside of the body are not the only way to date a Fender guitar however. Fender also dated the neck when it was manufactured. After the neck was finished, a Fender employee would either stamp or handwrite the date on the end of the guitar neck on its heel. This marking is only visible when the neck is removed from the body because it is covered in the neck pocket.
Almost all Fender guitars have a dated neck. Some Fender guitar bodies and pickups also have dates written on them. Few Fender guitars have dates written on the bodies under the pickups, in the routed out cavities, and near the wiring harnesses. Fender only decided to write dates on the bodies for a few years here and there. They never really did that consistently. What does the date on the neck mean?
Many people think that the date on the heel of their Fender neck is the production date of the guitar. After reviewing the ID number, you might find out that the two corresponding dates don't coincide. It all has to do with how Fender produced guitars.
Leo Fender was a genius with minimizing the costs of production. Unlike Gibson, Leo found did everything the cheapest and fastest way possible.
He made a bolt-on neck, so the neck and the body could be manufactured at the same time. He wired the pickguard with pickups, so all the wiring could be finished before the body was even dry from finishing. That's how the Fender production line worked. The number and date on the neck is simply the date that the neck was finished-not the date that the guitar was completed.
Necks could sit for days, weeks, or even months at a time before being matched with a body. After the entire guitar was assembled, the indentification number was stamped in place. Being many months later, the serial number date and the neck date might not match. Remember, these serial and neck numbers were never really intended for historical dating. They were simply internal numbers to help with production.
At some point in 1954, Fender decided to stop grouping the guitar ID number by model. He started using one sequence of serial numbers for all the guitars coming off of the Fender production lines including Teles, Esquires, Strats, and P-basses. Some of these indentification numbers are still out of sequence, jumbled up, or missing. You may notice that there is a great deal of over lapping numbers in these nine years. The only way to verify an over lapping date is to check the corresponding neck date and body date. This list is a little convoluted because there are so many over lapping serial numbers. The number column represents the general number grouping that Fender and most experts agree on.
The low and high columns show the range of indentification numbers that have been positively matched to specific years. As you can see, there is quite a bit of overlap. For some reason during 1955, 1957, and 1958 Fender decided to place zero or a dash in front of ID numbers periodically.
Some guitars in these years have them and some don't. 1954-1963 Fender Guitars Numbers Low High Years 0001-6999 0001 7000-8999 3152 9 7895 9 2 1957 9 03 1958 9 03 1959 9 6 1960 9 4 1961 9 3 1962 9 4 1963. Toward the end of 1962 Fender's success kept on building. He was nearing his 100,000th guitar.
Instead of adding another digit on to his 5-digit ID numbers, Leo decided to add an 'L', presumably for his first initial, in front of the serial numbers and start the sequence all over again. This time all the indentification numbers under 10,000 fill the empty digits with zeros. For example, the 989th guitar's ID number would not be L989. It was L00989.
Since this change wasn't until the end of 1962, only a few true 1962 Fenders have an 'L' serial number. Late 1962 - Early 1965 Fender Guitars Numbers Low High Years L00001-L19999 L0001 L L20000-L59999 L08825 L L60000-L99999 L23537 L. In early 1965, Leo Fender sold Fender Musical Instruments, Inc. To CBS for $13 million. A lot of changes happened to the company as well as the guitars themselves under the new ownership. The indentification number sequences were no exception. CBS came up with a new numbering system to take advantage of the fact that Leo did not use 6-digit ID numbers.
CBS continued the sequence Fender started in 1954. These 1965-1976 era guitars are commonly referred to as the F series because of the neck plate design change. The new neck plate only had the Fender F logo stamped in place. Late 1965 - 1976 Digits Numbers Low High Years 199 177 1965 199 177 1966 199 143 1967 299 115 1968 299 274 1969 299 235 1970 299 289 1971 399 231 1972 399 230 1973 599 315 1974 699 499 1975 699 557 1976 699 1971-1976. In 1976, Fender decided to stop stamping ID numbers in guitar parts and started making decals for the guitar peghead or headstock. Along with the new location a new series of serial numbers were instituted. Fender apparently was thinking long term because they developed a serial numbering system with one-letter codes preceding the indentification numbers.
The letters referred to the decade that the guitars were produced. Most guitars then had a number following the one-letter code that designated the specific year. For instance, ID number S76823 would be a guitar produced in 1977.
In about 1982 Fender started making import guitars from Japan and around 1990 Fender started importing from Mexico. These guitars have a completely different set of serial numbers that I will talk about later in the article.
This section only deals with USA made Fender guitars. Here are the decade numbers: 1976-Present USA Fender serial number One-letter Codes Letters Decades S 1970's E 1980's N 1990's Z 2000's The new serial number system was a little complicated, but it does make it relatively easy to tell the date of the guitar.
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Like all Fender's previous systems, they are problems with this one. Fender mass-produced the headstock decal without matching them with the annual production schedules of the guitars-meaning they made more decals for a given year than guitars. See the problem?
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There were a few years where excess headstock ID number decals were produced and held over to the next year, the some guitars are actually dated with a previous year decal. It wasn't until 1991 that Fender actually got this system straighten out. To get the exact date on guitars made between 1976 and 1991, it is important to cross-reference the dates on the neck written on the heel. Here are a list of dates and codes that overlap years. 1976-Present USA Fender Overlapping One-letter Codes Letters Decades S7 January 1977 - April 1978 S8 December 1977 - December 1978 S9 November 1978 - August 1981 E0 June 1979 - December 1981 E1 December 1980 - January 1982 E2 December 1981 - January 1983 E3 December 1982 - January 1985 E4 December 1983 - Early 1988 E8 1988 - 1989 E9 1989 - 1990 N9 1990 N0 1990 - 1991 Aside from all of the errors and overlapping serial numbers, this system was quite improved from the previous ID number systems.
If Fender would have executed the indentification numbers as planned, USA Fender guitars would be numbered as the following without any exceptions. You can use this table to lookup your Fender serial number after 1976.
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Throughout the years, Fender has run many limited edition, reissue, and custom guitars. All of these guitars' ID numbers do not follow the unique number sequence of the regular production guitars. These guitars usually have a special two to four letter prefix before the serial number. Each prefix is unique to that model guitar. Here is a guide to lookup all of the different types of special Fender guitars with their own serial number pattern.