Fender Serial Numbers
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Fender Serial Numbers: The Original Series: 1950-1963

The “original” series is actually divided into two periods as the instruments introduced before 1955 were not registered into a common serialization scheme, but each model (or “family”) had a series of its own.  Consequently, the same number can be found on different models made at different times between 1950 🎸

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How to Relic a Guitar: Part 2

What Guitars Can Be Aged? Pretty much any! Even though this booklet concentrates in Stratocasters and Telecasters, you can use any of the information here to age any brand or type of guitars including basses. If you want to get that real vintage look and make people wonder where the 🎸

How to Relic a Guitar
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How to Relic a Guitar

Why do we have this fascination with vintage guitars? Different people will give you different answers, but we can all agree that the sound, the look, the feel, the history is what attract us to vintage guitars. Let’s be realistic, how many people have $5,000 to $50,000 to buy an 🎸

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The Importance of Guitar Lessons

How My First Guitar Lessons Greatly Shaped My Playing Today I remember my first guitar lessons.  We learned “baby chords” like G, D, D7, A, Em, C, F – then B7, Am, Bm. This is what my teacher taught us.  I had a one hour lesson per week and I 🎸