japanese fender squier stratocaster serial numbers

These are great candidates for hot rodding, since they were just budget beginner guitars, still can be found fairly reasonably, and since they were built very well it isn't like polishing a turd. I'm a sucker for cheap guitars, partly because I never had any money when I was young so they were all I could afford. They were very well built, made by FujiGen Gakki in Japan, and they were cheap so plenty of them are out there. But in silver print.For whatever reason, I always liked the MIJ E series Squier Strats made in the mid 1980's. Some E7 Bullets had MIK on back instead of the headstock. Still using the same methods like the fake truss adjustment plug and truss rod at heel. Built in 1988 after Korean production had moved on from YC to others. For example 1 of my guitars has a lefty MIJ E8 62' neck on it.

Even after Young Chang was building the E7/E10 stuff. And continued to build models without an MIJ tag as part of the headstock logo as well. Japan also continued building Squiers after they started building models in Korea. And of course came with the truss rod adjustment at the heel with the fake plug on the headstock like you find on the E6 bullets. The left handed E series strat models also had no 'MIJ' as part of the logo either. The E6 Bullets werent the only MIJ models that didnt come with a 'made in japan' tag as part of the headstock logo during that period. Never seen any evidence that they ever built any guitars out of plywood or with a truss rod adjust at the heel. They also always did the truss rod adjustment at the headstock. The Squiers and the Fenix models they were doing all seemed to come with the alder body with maple top/back combination. Young Chang seemed to have a rather specific way of making guitars during the 80's. They did build some of the E7 MIK Bullets that didnt include the 'Made in Korea' as part of the headstock logo but those came with a Made in Korea on the back of the neck/headstock done in the hard to see silver ink they also used during that time to do the E7 and E10 serial numbers. They were found on the models that followed those up tho like the E9 and the S9 and S10 models they sent to Europe during that time. Those stickers werent used on the Young Chang models built in 1987. Looks like someone took an MIK sticker from an E9 or S9 or S10 model and threw it on there at some point.

Japanese fender squier stratocaster serial numbers