
Japanese labor and production costs were much lower than in America, and to compete with, Fender moved the cheaper Fender guitar production from America to Japan. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Fender was faced with competition from cheaper Japanese guitars. He had always used different model designs for the cheaper models. Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced low-priced guitars based on the Stratocaster and Telecaster models.
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Squier Company.īefore the Fender Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982,įender made cheaper guitars such as the Fender Lead series at its In the early 1950s the company also started making strings for the electric guitars of Leo Fender and became in 1963 an official supplierįor Fender Electric Instruments. Violin, banjo and guitar strings were also produced here. Time later a violin factory at 427 Capital Ave SW. In 1890 Victor opened a store in Battle Creek, Michigan and a short Jerome Bonaparte Squier and his son Victor Carroll Squier, twoĮnglish immigrants who started a violin building and repair company
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Peavey(Back to top of page) Serial numbers correlate to shipping dates of US models only.

All acoustic serial numbers begin with the letter 'A' and are followed by the two digit year prefix.
