If you need to figure out the exact year of your pre-CBS Fender Stratocaster, use the serial number and the general features of the guitar. Serial number range for the 1964 Fender Stratocaster is generally L20000 to L55000 (on the neck plate). 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. The only way to try to find the date is to remove the neck from the body Fender Serial Number Lookup. ![]() The serial numbers are basically chronological, but as already mentioned, due to Fender's numbering methods, there are a number of serial numbers and years that overlap. The table below shows the Fender serial numbers as they were used from 1950 to 1964.
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