Dear Friends, I could appreciate if you could please assist me regarding this guitar which i am having difficulties finding out information about it. Squire Fender Bullet Stratocaster Serial Number: ICS14073444 Crafted in Indonesia. What is this color? (Pinky red) What wood is the body? What wood is neck?
Radius of neck? Which year was it made? Where was it made?
What parts would need updating initially? What is it value? I read somethings about it but i was not sure so i would rather ask experienced people. Thank you for your time and help! Dear Friends, I could appreciate if you could please assist me regarding this guitar which i am having difficulties finding out information about it.
Squire Fender Bullet Stratocaster Serial Number: ICS14073444 Crafted in Indonesia. What is this color?
(Pinky red) What wood is the body? What wood is neck? Radius of neck? City life edition 2008 serial code. Which year was it made? Where was it made? What parts would need updating initially? What is it value?
I read somethings about it but i was not sure so i would rather ask experienced people. Thank you for your time and help! Click to expand.Welcome to the forum!
This is very easy to answer, because ICS14 means your guitar is made in 2014, and the model 'Bullet' is listed on the headstock. The body is basswood, the color is Fiesta Red, the neck is maple with rosewood fretboard, the fretboard is 9.5' radius with medium jumbo frets, the pickups are low grade generic asian ceramic magnet pickups. The value is about 50-100 euro in the used market in most of Europe. The pickups I would upgrade, and the tuners, to turn it into a really nice guitar if you like how it plays. Welcome to the forum! This is very easy to answer, because ICS14 means your guitar is made in 2014, and the model 'Bullet' is listed on the headstock. The body is basswood, the color is Fiesta Red, the neck is maple with rosewood fretboard, the fretboard is 9.5' radius with medium jumbo frets, the pickups are low grade generic asian ceramic magnet pickups.
The value is about 50-100 euro in the used market in most of Europe. The pickups I would upgrade, and the tuners, to turn it into a really nice guitar if you like how it plays.
Hey guys, the other day I traded an old Strat copy for a Squier Strat with the intent of practising modding ideas on etc. I have been trying to work out what model it is for a couple of weeks and haven't worked it out yet. Here are the things I know: Crafted in Indonesia. Made in 2003 (I'm 99.% sure) serial number starts with SI (I thought they normally started with IS).
There is nothing on the neckplate. The back plate is black rather than white. The headstock is the smaller size rather than the larger type. If you could help me at all, It would be much appreciated. Click to expand.Yep, it has all the ear marks of an SE100 Strat Pack.
A fine Squier to start as a modding base and not terrible as-is. Here's what I'd do to it if it were mine. Swap in a set of GFS Premium Texas Stagger Alnico pickups. A GFS electronics upgrade kit + a 0.47uf Sprague Orange Drop cap and a GFS MIM upgrade vintage style trem. Everything else is pretty much good to go.
Total upgrade part cost under $150. I'd bet that it would be comparable or better sounding than a lot of MIM Fenders. This could be a fake.
I e-mailed fender with the serial of a guitar I'd just bought, 'Crafted in Indonesia serial number SI03110558'. After sending some photos I got an email back saying 'Sorry but this does not look like our product'. I emailed fender because: the spec sheets describe a 22 fret agathis body affinity, and a 21 fret alder body affinity. Now the guitar I have has 21 frets but its seems far too light to have an alder body. I guess I was right to suspect that something was amiss.
Anyhow some people seem to think there's a lot of fakes coming in from china, and I think if that's the case then squier or fender should have a public list of all official squire serial numbers, just like they have on the fender site for all official fenders. Latest news from fender is: It looks more like a Strat pak guitar. Model Name: Squier STRAT (Used in Strat Pak only) Model Number: 032-0600-(Color#) Body: Agathis Neck: One-piece Maple Fingerboard: Rosewood (9.5' Radius) No. I have one the same Hi I've just got an identical one from ebay.
Same stickers, inspected by HAD in sept 03, similar serial number S103091942, same unusual backplate, plywood visibly through backplate, same headstock logo etc. I've measured thickness and it is the thinner body.did you ever measure yours ekul785? THere's also a sticker on mine on back on neck which says SQ-Special/SB. I looked this up on Google and there's a few references but all just in for sale ads in France, South America and others. Given how much info is out there about Squier Strats these seem quite obscure Many thanks.
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Nothing but an assumption, but since the serial numbers ICXXXXXX were used back in 99, etc, I would assume they need to differentiate the 09 version from the 99, and added the 'S' to do so. Probably meaning Squier. BTW, these later version Squiers utilize some very severe channel routing from pup to control plate, that the earlier versions did not. As well as the square bottom tuner plates vs the rounded bottom plates that are found on the earlier models. But then, you know what they say about it when we ASSUME something.
Just like many other companies in the late 1980s, Fender decided to start manufacturing products in Korea. As with any new product line, Fender came up with a new numbering system for these guitars. You would think after nearly 40 years of producing guitars, Fender would have a standardized serial number system down by now, right? Well, they didn't. The Korean Fender serial numbers are just as scattered and confusing as all the rest of their guitars. Let's take a look at the different serial numbers and see what they mean. What we do know about the early Korean days was that there were three different plants: the Samick pant, the Young Chang plant, and the Sung-Eum plant.
Guitars produced by Samick used a serial number starting with an 'S' followed by six digits. Usually the first digit represented the year of production. The Young Chang and Sung-Eum guitars used a serial number starting with an 'E' followed by six digits. The first number on the 'E' serial numbers is a little confusing. It does stand for the year of production in a way.
The first year Young Chang produced guitars with in 1987-1988, but they didn't use a '7' or an '8' as the first number. They used a '1' because it was the first year of production.
An 'E2' serial number was then used for 1989 since it was the second year of production. At this point, they decided to start corresponding the serial number with the actual year, so in 1990 they used an 'E0' serial number. In 1991, they reused an 'E1' serial number. It doesn't get more confusing than that, right? Here's how to tell the duplicate serial numbers apart.
The 1980s guitars' serial numbers were written in silver ink. The 1990s numbers were written in black. Some early Korean serial numbers didn't have a lettered serial number at all. They just had six, seven, or eight digits with the first number representing the year. Some of these no prefix serial numbers have been found on guitars produced all the way through 1996.
Fender did some crazy stuff back then. Korean serial numbers starting with 'M' are said to actually be made out of plywood.
Watch out for these! Here's a reference for the first few years. 1988 - 1993 Korean Squier Fender Serial Numbers Numbers Years 6 Digits 1988 - 1996 7 Digits 1988 - 1996 8 Digits 1988 - 1996 E1 + 6 Digits in Silver 1987 - 1988 E2 + 6 Digits in Silver 1988 - 1989 E0 + 6 Digits in Black 1989 - 1990 E1 + 6 Digits in Black 1991 - 1992 E2 + 6 Digits in Black 1992 - 1993 E3 + 6 Digits in Black 1993 - 1994 S9 + 6 Digits 1989 - 1990 S0 + 6 Digits 1990 - 1991 S1 + 6 Digits 1991 - 1992 S2 + 6 Digits 1992 - 1993 S3 + 6 Digits 1993 - 1994. After 1993, Fender really cleaned up their serial number process. They switched to two different plants: the Cor-Tek or Cort plant and the Saehan or Sunghan plant.
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Since Fender was using new plants to build their guitars, they decided the change the numbering system again, but this time they changed it to something more like the American guitars. Both the Cort and Sungham plants used unique numbers. All Cort serial numbers started with the letter 'C'. You would assume Sungham would use the letter 'S', but that was already taken by the Samick plant a few years earlier. Sungham ended up using the letter 'V'. Both of these serial numbers used an 'N' to represent the 1990s followed by a number that stood for the exact year. This is similar to the American.
So a guitar produced by Cort in 1992 would have a serial number of CN2 followed by five digits. Sungham guitars would be the same only starting with a 'V'. These serial numbers were used until 1997 when Fender stopped producing guitars at the Sungham factory. 1993 - 1997 Korean Squier Fender Serial Numbers Numbers Years CN0 + 5 Digits 1990 - 1991 CN1 + 5 Digits 1991 - 1992 CN2 + 5 Digits 1992 - 1993 CN3 + 5 Digits 1993 - 1994 CN4 + 5 Digits 1994 - 1995 CN5 + 5 Digits 1995 - 1996 CN6 + 5 Digits 1996 - 1997 VN0 + 5 Digits 1990 - 1991 VN1 + 5 Digits 1991 - 1992 VN2 + 5 Digits 1992 - 1993 VN3 + 5 Digits 1993 - 1994 VN4 + 5 Digits 1994 - 1995 VN5 + 5 Digits 1995 - 1996 VN6 + 5 Digits 1996 - 1997. Since all guitar production was moved to the Cort factory, Fender decided to change its numbering system again. Starting in 1997, the Korean Fender Squiers used a 'KC' prefix that stood for Korean made in the Cort factory.
The 1997-1998 serial numbers were a little messed up. Fender used 'KC97' to represent 1997 and followed this prefix with six, seven, and eight digits. From 1998 on, Fender used the 'KC' prefix followed by a two-digit year identifier and six digits.
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Hey there, I bought a Squier Affinity Strat last Dec. And on checking the serial number I got this from Google. Indonesian Squiers IC: I = Indonesia, C = Cor-Tek (Cort), the serial number prefix is followed by a 2 number year.
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IS: I = Indonesia, S = Samick, the serial number prefix is followed by a 2 number year. For example 'IC02' Made in 2002. In 2009-10 some Indonesian Squier's had the prefix ICS09XXXXX and ICS10XXXXX. There are a number of standard models that have the ICS prefix some are FSR but some are just normal run models.
It therefore appears as though the the S in ICS is only an indication as to whether it is a Factory Special Run or FSR guitar (manufactured by Cor-Tek in Indonesia). It also appears likely that any FSR guitar beginning with ICS will be a Squier 'Standard' as opposed to any of the other models i.e. CV, Deluxe etc. My serial number is ICS10207241 so I know the year, but is there any other way I can determine the difference between a Standard and Affinity?