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The Fender serial number decoder currently supports all documented MIA, MIJ, MIM, MIK and MII formats with the exception of Custom Shop, Relic and Reissue instruments.
Please note that fender serial numbers tend to overlap by at least a year, and thereby the date of your guitar can only be approximated.
Features like bolt-on necks and pickups wired into the pickguard all helped the Fender factory churn out guitar after guitar, day after day.
This also means that various parts used on a particular guitar may have come from different points in time, so no single number can absolutely define when the instrument was built.
The Bassman consolidated several major design components for the world of production guitar amps – including the long-tailed-pair phase inverter, cathode-follower tone stack, and fixed-bias output stage – many of which remain mainstays of virtually all larger amps to this day, and sounded utterly glorious in the process.
Often described as “a Bassman with only three ten-inch speakers,” the Bandmaster is actually a different beast in several ways, with a little less power, an earlier breakup, and an edgy-yet-snappy tone.
Strat, Stratocaster, Esquire, Telecaster, Tele, Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Mustang, P. Bass and Fender are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments.
The replacement necks and bodies are for a Fender or Squier by Fender guitar or bass.
Plug into the stout EF86 pentode preamp channel for creamy, milkshake-thick tones or the ECC83 channel for more jangle and sparkle, and you quickly hear what all the fuss is about.
With just a single 12″ speaker in its exotic-wood cab, the SC30 is a more-compact performance tool than its more popular big brother, the DC30, yet is still a surprisingly heavy hump from van to stage, thanks to meaty transformers and tank-like build quality.
Arguably assessed as the Ferrari to Dumble’s Mercedes-Benz, Trainwreck amps are hot, hairy, high-gain machines that reward guitarists who can handle them with an unprecedented playing experience – a certain “one-ness” between guitar, player, and amp that few others hint at.