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Thread #111321 Message #3094223
Posted By: GUEST,corrugated iron
13-Feb-11 - 04:58 AM
Thread Name: How old is my Fender 12 string?
Subject: RE: How old is my Fender 12 string?

I bought my F5-12 in Melbourne, Australia, about Feb 1980 and its still plays beautifully. It is no longer as stridently "jangly".

It has a serial number Y13700 on the label inside the sound hole

I think it was made in Japan while Fender US production was slowed or stopped to modernise the factory.