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I know people have a ton of biases against that era, and some of that is justified, but man, that was also the era of Hendrix, of almost all the Blackface amps ever produced, and of the Dan Smith Strat they made some absolutely killer stuff during that time, much of it widely revered and highly sought-after.but it's anathema to the folks controlling the modern brand for whatever reason. When I was at the Vistor Center last year, they talked up Fender's early days under Leo, but barely mentioned the two decades of CBS ownership at all. One thing about the modern Fender company: They tend to bury the CBS era entirely. Maybe they did use up all the S8 and E2 numbers, but if they did, someone's hiding them lol.
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I personally see way more S9 Fenders than any other serial stamps around this era, but my experience is completely anecdotal, and as such, I don't let it carry much weight. Hendrix and others had been juryrigging 5-way selectors for a decade before Fender finally decided they'd be wise to make them standard. Fender was so far behind on so many innovations, it's surprising they stayed in business at all. I thought '77 was the change year for that, mainly because I assumed it coincided with the introduction of the 5-way pickup selector (though that may have happened sooner, too). I've never seen an S6, but I stand (okay, sit lol) corrected, anyway. that made a Fender or Gibson appear old fashioned. Add to that the different guitars that were being introduced - BC Rich, Schecter, etc. Synthesizers were the rage, and there was speculation that the electric guitar would become virtually irrelevant, just as the accordian did in the late 50s-early 60s. Keep in mind that the late 70's was a time of monumental change in the music instrument business. I have seen S8 numbers on 1979 guitars, so there was definitely an overlap. I'm sure they used all of the S7 and S8 serial decals, but they probaby ran out of them sooner than the S9 numbers.
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The serial number would be for warranty tracking purposes, and an "S9" number was as good as any other for that. The vintage electric guitar market was pretty small, and nobody in the vintage business cared about 70's Fenders anyway. Most people didn't care what year a guitar was made back then.
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I have seen "S9" serial numbers as late as March 1982. Fender has never released production totals for their regular (non-limited edition) guitars. I don't know when this started in 1976 or how many were made this way. The first decals start with "76" and this eventually changed to "S6". In 1976 they moved the serial number from the neck plate to a headstock decal. Also, does anybody have any idea where I might be able to find at least a fairly accurate estimate of just how many Strats and/or Fender guitars in general were made daily or weekly or yearly or from each series? Given the haphazard methods of CBS, maybe they didn't even know (although, for legal purposes, they would probably have to know what they made and sold). E2, and E3 (and why they didn't make any E0 or E1 Fenders at all). So, basically, I'm wondering if they simply used every last S9 serial number they could, and did not do the same with S7, S8. And this is REALLY weird since both of these models (especially Dan Smith Strats) are much rarer than S9 Strats. In fact, nearly all of the actual Dan Smiths are E2 (with a slight overlap into E3), while all the 2-knob Strats I've ever seen - which were produced in '83-'84 - had E3 s/ns.
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Here's what I don't get CBS/Fender is notorious for having cranked out a metric ton of these things everyday in the late-'70s-early'80s, and yet, it took them three full years to use up all the S9 serial numbers? After the S9s were done, the so-called "Smith-era" Strats got a lot closer to switching letter/number combos each year. As mentioned, I get that S9 does not necessarily mean the guitar was manufactured in 1979, and in fact most were not the S9 serial number is seen on guitars made clear through 1981, including (to my knowledge, anyway) every last 3-bolt-neck Strats. Then, we come S9, where the real confusion starts for me.
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So, they did a series of S7 followed by S8. We know that Fender changed their serial number method in the mid-'70s from a bunch of numbers engraved in the neckplate to the letter/number combo decal on the front of the headstock, and although the indicated year on said decals don't always coincide with the actual year of production, I've personally never seen an S6, so I'm guessing '77 was the first year, or at least the first FULL year.
I'm sure this isn't the first thread devoted at least partially to this question, but nothing I've read thus far makes total sense (in fact, many people go out of their way to let us know that CBS/Fender was quite chaotic, but I figured it couldn't hurt to try again).
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