Korean Fender Showmaster Serial Number
- Both the Fender Showmaster and Toronado were manufactured in Korea by Cort. Cort's serial number (at least after 2000) is basesd on the year/month/production run number of the guitar: YYMMXXXX. For example, serial number 05022201 would have been made in February 2005.
- Jul 20, 2017. Korean Fender Showmaster Serial Number. Squier is the launching pad for beginners, pointing intermediate and advancing guitarists toward their ultimate goal- owning a Fender! With those goals and others in mind, Squier will continue to offer products with features and prices that deliver truly excellent.
Fender Showmaster HH with Dimarzio Evolution Pickups. Guitars and Gear. Bay City, MI, United States. + Free Shipping. Watch Watching.
since giving fender a call and giving them the serial number of my guitar,ive found out some cool things about the guitar.aside from the cool tyedye paint job with matching headstock,it has no fretboard inlays work but dots on the side of the neck,side mounted inputjack,and 1 volume and 1 tone knob,graphite nut,c neck profile,scale length 25.5..with of neck at the nut is 1.568. gotoh locking tuners,the only thing i dont like is the diecast bridge assembly...so i take this guitar to the local guitar guru,and have a set up done,and he looks this guitar up on a website,its like a blue book site for apprasials,only instead of cars ,its for guitars and basses.we look this guitar up on this site,and its not listed as a strat,but its listed as a showmaster.ive never heard of this.im all ears..any one with knowledge of this guitar please stop in and give me some info...it looks like a strat,it was sold as a strat,and the fender guy called it a strat.this guitar retailed for 699,but i paid 350 for it because it had been on the show room floor and it looked like every 14yrold in the zip code had played slayer riffs on it because of all the scratches from picks.i ....had those buffed out....thanks for all and any feed back
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Industry | Musical instruments |
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Founded | 1890 in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States 1982 (Squier by Fender) |
Founder | Victor Carroll Squier |
Defunct | 1975–1982 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Electric guitars Bass guitars Acoustic guitars Guitar amplifiers |
Parent | Fender |
Website | squierguitars.com |
The V.C. Squier Company manufactured strings for violins, banjos, and guitars. It was established in 1890 by Victor Carroll Squier in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1965, the company was acquired by Fender. By 1975, Squier became defunct as a manufacturer and a brand name for strings, as Fender opted to market its strings under the Fender brand name.
In 1982, the Squier brand was reactivated by Fender to become its brand for lower priced versions of Fender guitars. Squier guitars have been manufactured in Japan, Korea, Mexico, India, Indonesia, China, and the United States.
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History[edit]
V.C. Squier Company (1890–1975)[edit]
Jerome Bonaparte Squier, a young English immigrant who arrived in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the latter part of the 19th century, was a farmer and shoemaker who had learned the fine European art of violin making. He moved to Boston in 1881, where he built and repaired violins with his son, Victor Carroll Squier. To this day, their violins are noted for their exceptional varnishes, and they command high prices as fine examples of early U.S. instrument craftsmanship. Indeed, J.B. Squier ranks among the best-known U.S.-trained violin makers and is often referred to as 'the American Stradivarius.'
Victor returned to Battle Creek, where he opened his own shop in 1890. As his business grew, Squier moved the company to 429 Lake Ave. and eventually to 427 Capitol Ave, S.W.—the famous 'fiddle factory' of Battle Creek. With a limited market for violins in Battle Creek, however, Squier astutely sought relationships with national music schools and famous violinists.
Up to 1900, the best violin strings were made in Europe. Victor Squier started making his own hand-wound violin strings, and the business grew so quickly that he and his employees improvised a dramatic production increase by converting a treadle sewing machine into a string winder capable of producing 1,000 uniformly high-quality strings per day. Squier violin strings, banjo strings and guitar strings became well known nationwide and were especially popular among students because of their reasonable price.
In the 1930s, Squier began making strings for the era's new electric instruments; the company also sold pianos, radios and phonograph records until divesting itself of all string-related products in 1961. Fender Electric Instruments entered the picture in the 1950s, when the V.C. Squier Company began supplying Southern California inventor and businessman Leo Fender with strings for his unusual new electric guitars. The V.C. Squier Company became an official original equipment manufacturer for Fender in 1963. Fender acquired the V.C. Squier Company in early 1965, shortly before Fender itself was acquired by CBS in May of the same year. By the mid-1970s, the Squier name was retired as the strings had taken the Fender name.[1]
Squier Guitars (1982–present)[edit]
Before the Fender Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982, Fender was making lower priced guitars such as the Fender Lead series at its Fullerton, California plant. Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced lower priced guitars based on its main Stratocaster and Telecaster models and had always used different model designs for its lower priced guitars.
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s Fender was facing competition from lower priced Japanese made guitars. The higher priced Fender guitars were made in the United States and could not compete with the lower prices of Japanese made Fender copies. In the early 1980s, 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 was also losing sales in Japan to Japanese guitar brands such as Tōkai, Greco and Fernandes and the establishment of Fender Japan would benefit Fender sales in Japan, as well as overseas. 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 was known for once being part of Epiphone Japan. Kanda Shokai owned 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 took place. Tokai was seriously considered to start building the first Japanese made Fenders, but after a breakdown in negotiations, FujiGen Gakki was chosen instead.[2]
The initial Squier models were launched on July/August 1982. Over time, the Squier series slowly evolved to include original model designs and production has moved from Japan to various other Asian countries such as Korea, China and Indonesia.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Fender Squier HistoryArchived July 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Fender Japan History'. Daeschler.com. Retrieved 2013-12-14.
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