Please use the search bar at the bottom of this page to lookup your guitar's manufacture date. If you would like specs on your guitar please view our Product pages by looking up your model number.
Note for guitars without a serial number
Or it might be an eight-digit serial number that indicates it was built on the 700th day of the year. In a case like that, we’re clearly dealing with a fake guitar.” Davidson is referring to Gibson’s system—in effect since 1977—of including a guitar’s build date within the serial number sequence. Fender Product Registration - Serial number lookup. Register now for easy access to up-to-date product info. Plus, join Fender Connect to manage Your Gear and tap into personalized tips, videos and new products. Convert the following two numbers to a date. This is literally the day out of the month that your guitar was made on. The clear structure of the Takamine serial number system makes it easy to work out the exact day your guitar was made on. A guitar with a serial number starting “050108” would have been made on the eighth of January 2005. Most Common Yamaha Serial Number System. The most common Yamaha serial numbers follow a system that uses 2 letters, followed by 5 numbers. From this we can tell that this is the 22nd guitar built on June 12 of either 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996 or 2006.
Up to 1977 there was just a label inside the guitar with the last two digits of the year in the bottom right hand corner (see example on the right).
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Where do I find my serial number?
Your guitar's serial number is found inside the sound hole and up sharply towards the neck block (see example on the right).
First generation 03 Series serial numbers may also be ink stamped on a white label.
If your serial number has 2 lines of numbers please enter only the bottom row to the lookup form below. The first line of numbers is your model number.
In the event you are presented with multiple dates your serial number may be a duplicate. Please use model number to identify your date.
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1967 TO THE EARLY 1970s
Toward the end of 1967, Baldwin took over the Gretsch Company. “Made In USA” was added to the serial number stamp and the numbers were date coded in the same way that they had been between ’65 and ’67. These serial numbers were also either 5 or 6 digit numbers, depending on the month of production. The numbers were once again located on the back of the headstock and would have been printed in Gold, Black or White (depending on the color of the guitar).
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- The first, and or, first and second number identifies the numerical month of production. For example, 2 would stand for February, 11 would stand for November etc.
- The second or the third number, 7, 8 or 9, (depending on whether the month number is one or 2 digits), identifies the year of production as either 1967, 1968 or 1969 etc.
As an example, serial number 68409 would break down as:
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6: June
409: Unit number
As an example, serial number 109837 would break down as:
10: November
9: 1969
837: Unit number
Obviously, with the change of the decade, there is plenty of room for confusion in interpreting the numbers. The numbers for the months, October (10), November (11), and December (12), can also be interpreted as (10) January 1970, (11) January 1971 and (12) January 1972. The only way to be clear, is to have an understanding of the feature sets of the instruments from the era.
In about 1969, Gretsch began to use another version of the Orange and Grey label on F-Hole instruments. This third iteration of the label had “Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co” with lines for the Model No. and serial No., and it said “That Great Gretsch Sound” at the bottom. It was used until 1981. The 5-digit numbers on these labels always begin with 1 or 2 and are sequential, do not follow the “date-coded” convention, and precise dates cannot be determined using the serial numbers.
- Another odd artifact of these 5-digit numbers is that the Electrotone hollow-body guitars from this same time period have numbers from the same sequential series impressed on the upper edge of the headstock. These number are in a much larger font size than the original impressed numbers from ’69 to ’72. There is still some discussion as to why Gretsch may have used this non-conforming numbering scheme during this period on these instruments.
1973 TO 1981
In 1973, the 2nd iteration of the Baldwin era Gretsch label was introduced. These labels were once again a Black and White rectangle, and had “Gretsch Guitars” printed on them, as well as a line for the Baldwin model number and the date coded serial number. These numbers are interpreted in the same way as the earlier date coded numbers, though a hyphen was sometimes placed between the first and second digits better identifying the month/year designation. As an example, 2-365 would be February (2), 1973 (3).