Maybe someday somebody will write te definitive book on all this stuff about both F/USA and FJ.`til then we can only guess and trade info from the ones we own.īut things like this below really help a lot in identifying a guitar.this is my 54-128.top end at the time based on a 1954 and retailed for 128,ooo yen. I assume you don`t mean A,B C etcetc serials.you mean stuff stamped in the pocket No one really seems to know for sure what those mean.might just have been internal factory codes, but I`ve seen a lot of different things stamped, written or marked in there in red and black.
#Fender Japan Serial Numbers Jd serial number
Enter the Fender's serial number and select if your guitar was made in USA, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Indonesia or China. These include the top of the neck plate, somewhere on the headstock, on the bridge plate or the back of the neck near the body. Says they were built with the advice of Dan Smith.their words.so entirely possible some were made to be exported Stateside, and since you have one, seems certain. There are a number of possible locations for the serial number on a Fender guitar. They had the ST557, 556, 555, 551, 535 and 756 model numbers.different colors and p`up configurations. They came with te Blade Shooter Vibrato system. The Boxers in my book came with 3 single coils, S-S-H, twin hmbuckers, a single `bucker.one had a maple neck others were rosewood.the p`us listed were Hot Rods, Power Balance or Dragsters. `course I also had a Fender Japan that came with a F/USA Standard neck, tuners and had the micro-tilt on it.they were listed as such and I have an older Japanese magazine with one pictured on the back along with the specs.but anyways.I meant the tags with info about te model, cool to have the inspection tag but not really any related info on those. I`ve read the same thing.that F/USA didn`t have a factory up and running for a while after a company sale was made and that FJ was making guitars for the US market and shipping them over, but I have become a skeptic about what I read on line due to all the conflicting info out there.