For most of Fender’s production history they have applied serial numbers and production dates that can help you determine their production date (within a few years’ margin, at least).ĭetermining the date can also be important from a collector’s perspective, since the pre-1966 vintage Fender guitars are generally considered the most valuable. No one likes it when you forget their birthday and neither does your Fender. For a guitar that cost less than a half tank of gas all I can say is that this was the best $32 I've ever spent.How to date and identify your Fender instruments using serial numbers and production date stamps. Am I nuts? Probably, but for some reason it has become my 'Go To Guitar' ever since I got it and the 'honeymoon phase' has long passed. I haven't found a weak spot with this humble little axe. Neck and overall feel is better with no dead spots anywhere. The tremolo system is far smoother and recovers with greater accuracy. The pickups have greater range and depth than that of my Strat (with '95 Fender Pickups).

As I said before I've paid more for 'parts guitars' that usually weren't functional in the past. I think that my other guitars have just taken a back seat to the least expensive instrument I've ever bough. No matter if it's clean finger picking stuff or all out hardcore OD stuff with lots of attitude mixed in. Matched with the '82 Peavey Backstage SS amp, this Peavey guitar simply sounds good. All I do is play this Raptor every time I want to wail. My Dot, SG, and Strat all rest in their cases and never see daylight. Yet now I find that this little Raptor has my full attention. He replaced the pickups with some odd set he found at an equally odd website and still complains about it being too bright. Bill has one of their Tele copies that was gold, but someone had sanded the top and back leaving only the gold paint on the sides. But never having one of their guitars until now I wonder what I have missed.

Well with amps, Peavey has always been my #1 choice for 100% dependable and solid performance for decades. MIA,MIK,MIJ,MIM, who cares if it PLAYS and has strings for 32.00 ya got a steal! HNGD!!! From what I can tell the Predator (if it is a pre-2009) model it is MIA and most all there guitars where MIA after 2009 they get more and more models from MIJ, MIK etc.

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