SOLD FT/FS: Fender Telecaster 1952 reissue MIJ 1985/86 *PRICE DROP*

X cylinders, exhaust pipes, Borrani flanged alloy wheels, Marzocchi forks and the original factory paintwork. Workshop appointments after agreement. Identi cation data All Benelli motorcycles have We recommend writing down the main numbers in the spaces provided below: identi cation numbers: Frame No. PNU W Frame no.

hi, I have a hard time dating my guitar: It is a black Maple neck Made in Japan Fender Squier series Sn: N Logically, it should’ve been.

Squier is a musical instrument brand name owned by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Fender, under the ownership of CBS , acquired the Squier brand name in when it bought a USA based string making firm, but it lay dormant for many years . Before the Fender Squier series were introduced in , Fender was making lower priced guitars such as the Fender Lead series at their Fullerton California plant.

Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced lower priced guitars based on their main Stratocaster and Telecaster designs and had always used different model designs for their lower priced guitars. In the late s and early s Fender was facing competition from lower priced Japanese made guitars.

The lower priced Fender guitars were made in America and could not compete with the lower prices of Japanese made Fender copies. In the early s, Japanese labor and production costs were much lower than in America and to compete with the Japanese made guitars, Fender moved the lower priced Fender guitar production from America to Japan. Fender began negotiations with several Japanese musical instrument distributors and reached an agreement with Yamano Gakki and Kanda Shokai to establish Fender Japan.

Yamano Gakki are also known for once being part of Epiphone Japan. Kanda Shokai own the Greco brand name and one of the conditions of the Fender Japan agreement was that Kanda Shokai cease production of its own Greco Fender copies. This arrangement benefited Fender because it removed the Greco Fender copies from the Japanese market which were selling in Japan at much lower prices than the American made Fenders and it also benefited Kanda Shokai because Kanda Shokai could then distribute Japanese made Fender branded guitars in Japan.

Further negotiations between Fender and Japanese guitar factories were done.