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In particular, the oldest catalog I have access to is from 1973, so I can't tell you if those headstocks/logos were in use prior to that date. I do not guarantee the date ranges I show, they are just my best, educated guess. When catalogs are not available, I've attempted to use scans of Fernandes magazine ads, when they can be dated with certainty. I'm basing my findings below almost entirely on catalog scans of 1970's and 1980's catalogs that can be freely accessed and viewed at the Fernandes Japanese corporate web site, at The headstock images I've used here are captured from those catalogs, and, unless noted below, copyright on all images I use in this article should be assumed to be owned by Fernandes. Another thing I've found out recently is that many Fernandes guitars were made at the Fujigen factory in Japan, which also made the legendary vintage Ibanez, Greco, and even the first Japanese Fenders (under the Squier brand). Fernandes only began changing its headstock shapes in 1985, as you will see below. Gibson did sue Hoshino Gakki, the company that marketed guitars under the Ibanez brand name, but in the end, Hoshino did not lose the suit, even though they (and other Japanese guitar companies) did end up changing the designs of their guitars slightly to avoid further litigation. The truth of the matter, however, is that Fender never sued anybody.
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Free Download Portrait Professional 11 Full Version With Crack. It's a story that's been around a long time, since it was told to me by the store owner who sold my my first Fernandes strat clone back in 1985 (pictured below). Later guitars such as the Sustainers and other newer models are not my area of focus.įirst, a quick note about the term 'lawsuit guitar': You may often see this term used in relation to Fernandes guitars, but the truth is that Fernandes was never sued by Fender over the shape or quality of its guitars.
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The guitars I'm most interested in dating are the 'Burny Olds', 'Limited' and 'Revival' series produced in the 1970's and 1980's.
My hope is this article will serve as a general guide to those either buying or selling Fernandes guitars.
#Fernandes guitars serial numbers how to#
Many of the eBay sellers simply don't know how to date the guitars they have, and a few, unfortunately, may want to mislead bidders as to the actual age of the guitars. Just found this post where the owner assume the pickups were active (I guess some folks assume that because of the pickup covers), only to find-out when he opened it that it has passive pickups.Dating Fernandes Guitars By Headstock Shape & Logo I'm creating this guide because Fernandes guitars, particularly their 1970's and 1980's Fender clones, are becoming very popular collector's items on eBay, and because there is some confusion about the dates of the guitars among eBay sellers. But since I can't find any definitive description of your guitar, I can't say for sure what type of pickups it has. If only your bridge pickup is not working, I suspect something else is going-on. I would be surprised to find only one pickup won't work because of a dead battery, and I'd also be surprised to learn that your instrument (at the lower end of the Fernandes line) had active pickups. You seem to think that your guitar has active pickups, and that one pickup is not working because of a battery issue. When searching it, the only things that seem to come are either Russian or Japanese, so I wonder if it was ever imported to North America? It's unlikely that the pickup its self if dead, more likely a problem with the switch or a connection. If just your bridge pickups isn't working, don't panic. Your guitar is a Fernandez model FGZ 420 SBG and I see it in the 1997 catalog:
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