#IBANEZ ELECTRIC GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS HOW TO#

#IBANEZ ELECTRIC GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS HOW TO#

Does anyone know how to read the serial numbers on Ibanez guitars. With the pandemic happening you can expect a slower than normal response. I want to sell my ibanez that I never play anymore. He's always been very responsive when I've contacted him in the past. Janne at Hagstrom Parts SE is going to be your best source. 12001) M month of manufacture: 1January. Custom (FujiGen), 5 digits Y last digit of year (e.g. You have to fiddle with the wooden bridge by angling it in order to get the intonation as close as possible.Ģ - Unfortunately there's no sources any longer in NA that offer factory original Hagstrom replacement parts. These serial numbers were hand-lettered on the back of the headstock. Those two screws in the tailpiece adjust the string height. The DeLuxe and the HIIB are almost identical, one way of telling them apart is that the pickups in the DeLuxe have rounded shoulders while the pickups in the HIIB has square shoulders.ġ - Intonation. Both the Hagstrom 1B and IIB models were introduced towards the end of 1965 and replaced the DeLuxe.

There were 4 runs of the DeLuxe bass model that took place during 1965 producing a total of 2049 basses of which 49 were left handed. Your bass is actually a Hagstrom DeLuxe which was the predecessor to the Hagstrom IIB (F400) model. Production batch number 625 was a run of 500 basses with yours being the 140th bass made in that run which took place in 1965. 2nd number is month (in this case 3rd number, because 97 counts as 'one' being the year) S. First number is year, since yours has 7 numbers, that means it was made from 1997-present. Click to expand.Well let's see what the good book has to say about your Hagstrom. last 4 numbers are the it rolled off the line.

Ibanez electric guitar serial numbers