MSN9 Fender serial number

[Boris Bubbanov]

Anyone seen an MSZ9 serial number? Sorry, not MSN9, MSZ9.

I just got this new guitar and it is immaculate. But I thought the numbers would stay on MSN7 for a while until the numbers ran out. This is an Artists serial number, and that first digit will not always correspond with the year.

MSN7 never meant 1997 really, but in sort of way it looks like the numbers jumped ahead 12 years.

[Boris Bubbanov]

Bone nut.

Is this the only MIM model that has a bone nut?

[setlow]

Now this is interesting. I think we ordered these guitars on the same MFFF. The serial number on mine is MSN7. I'll have to pop the pickguard and check for a date.

Meanwhile, the guitar is really growing on me. I set up the action to be pretty low and fast with 10s. Cannot overstate how good the neck feels. Great bang for the buck.

[Boris Bubbanov]

We did. But you got Olympic White, right?

I think maybe they felt sorry for me, after they processed some other orders out of turn.
Normally I would prefer the Oly White but WOW these guitars are so fresh you can still smell the Ensenada air in the boxes. These are so brand new - the strings are so shiny, way shinier than the ones when you open the plastic sealed bag. Beautiful guitars, the kind that dealers fight over:

[setlow]

Pretty guitars.

Where under the pickguard is the date stamped? I must be missing something, but I don't see. In the control cavity there is a barcode tag, but no date per se.

[thaus]

Boris, are you sure that's bone? Looks like simulated bone which Fender is using more and more on their MIM offerings. Actually pretty good stuff; much better than the plastic stuff they have been using.

[Boris Bubbanov]

Originally Posted by thaus

Boris, are you sure that's bone? Looks like simulated bone which Fender is using more and more on their MIM offerings. Actually pretty good stuff; much better than the plastic stuff they have been using.

I've always been plenty happy with the Cyclovac that Fender has been using on the production guitars.

I've had a couple Jimmie Vaughans for a while and like the nut on those; never thought twice about it.

The nuts on these two new Jimmies is immaculate. Very precisely cut nut.
The FMIC webpage described the JV nut as "Bone":

http://www.fender.com/support/diagram...139202APg3.pdf

But guess what? It describes all the other models around it the same way. Same part number.

So I was fooled. I was wrong. These are all cyclovac after all.

[Boris Bubbanov]

Originally Posted by setlow

Pretty guitars.

Where under the pickguard is the date stamped? I must be missing something, but I don't see. In the control cavity there is a barcode tag, but no date per se.

I chose my words badly. I should say: Date stamp on the underside of the pickguard. Not under the pickguard. Sorry.

[setlow]

Posted this yesterday in another thread, but finally looked under the pickguard and it is September 18 2007. MSN7 serial number. They line up. Still, it was from the MFFF in October, 2009. Guess it was hanging out in the warehouse for a good while. Go know.

[Mech]

Originally Posted by setlow

Posted this yesterday in another thread, but finally looked under the pickguard and it is September 18 2007. MSN7 serial number. They line up. Still, it was from the MFFF in October, 2009. Guess it was hanging out in the warehouse for a good while. Go know.

Artist Series, Oly White, 9/18/07- (9/18/70) 37 years later, I'm sensing some good karma here. Not sure what you'll name her, but the writing may already be on the wall.

[busted-e-again]

The serial number prefix is M - Mexico, S-Signature, Z - 2000's (N is 90's), so this guitar is 2009.

Maybe Fender ordered a whole bunch of 'signature' serial number decals back in 1997 and finally used them all up....