Sometimes the potentiometers are worth checking too.
If you want to double-check the year of production year, it’s often a good idea to look at the heel of the neck (which entails removing the neck). Pre-1976 Model? Check the Heel Tooīefore 1976, frustratingly they often randomly assigned serial numbers. Please info date serial number S97076010 factory etc. Note that made in Mexico Fender guitars (MIM) and made in Japan guitars (MIJ) have their own unique serial number system. Washburn Guitar Serial Number Decoder I have an old washburn Lyon 10b bass guitar that was passed down to my dad by a family. The prefix ‘Z’ stands for guitars made in the noughties (2000 – 2010).The prefix ‘N’ at the beginning of a serial number stands for the nineties.
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Vintage Series (launched in 1982) uses ‘V’ as a prefix for the serial number