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taylornutt wrote:Any good sites for dating American Vintage Reissue Jaguars?

You can do it on the fender.com site. I've dated three guitars on there. A CIJ JM, an AV Tele and an old P-Bass.

Skiptracer1981 wrote:

taylornutt wrote:Any good sites for dating American Vintage Reissue Jaguars?

You can do it on the fender.com site. I've dated three guitars on there. A CIJ JM, an AV Tele and an old P-Bass.

Fender.com --> Support --> Product Dating...... it's on the left near the middle

robt8500 wrote:

Skiptracer1981 wrote:

taylornutt wrote:Any good sites for dating American Vintage Reissue Jaguars?

You can do it on the fender.com site. I've dated three guitars on there. A CIJ JM, an AV Tele and an old P-Bass.

Fender.com --> Support --> Product Dating...... it's on the left near the middle

Thanks I am going to have to remove the neck to find out.

Isn't there a serial on the neckplate?

Mike wrote:Isn't there a serial on the neckplate?

The number is V155881. I looked on Fender's site and it could be any number of years. the manual in the case said 2002

That's hilarious - Fender are so lazy

robt8500 wrote:

purplehaze19x wrote:They like to do things in 10-12 year incriments (sp?)
The CIJ decal ran approx. 12 years if not mistaken, then switched back to MIJ
They also started re-using the letters in the serial numbers. for example, my original '95 Jag-stang has the serial number MIJ 'T'
And now, you can buy brand new Japanese Fenders with MIJ 'T' serial numbers.

i get what your saying but werent jagstangs not released til 1996? the gold sticker year (50th)

Nope, 1995 it was. The pre '96 Jag-stang did NOT have the 'Designed by Kurt Cobain' or the 50th Anniversary stickers. Ask Rob Roe. he has an original also.

i guess it doesnt get any more concrete than the ad. thanks for sharing.

"...that was played by only one artist"

gives me kinda weird feeling in the stomach, dunno why...

Pat.

Thom wrote:Very little Fender Japan stuff makes it on to the main Fender site, it's a real shame you can't just get it all across the world without having to order direct from Japan.

Fender Japan is essentially a different company that just licenses the Fender name. It's a little more complicated than that as I'm sure the contract stipulates more specifically what they're allowed to make and where they're allowed to sell it but Fender USA and Fender Japan are not run by the same people. Fender Japan is parented by two japanese musical instrument wholesalers, Kanda Shokai and Yamano Gakki.

Fender owns a controlling portion of Fender Japan so in the end they have the final say. But it's pretty much left to operate as it's own comapny in terms of products and such. There are times however when Fender cracks the whip like when the Japanese websites were selling new products direct to the US.

I think the Fender Japan brand was a brilliant move by Fender because they cut the heart out of a lot of the Fender copies. If you can't beat em join em, like for real.