I looked up a serial number VN59xxxx on web site, The Guitar Dater Project - Fender Serial Number Decoder, and it comes back Guitar Info Your guitar was made in Korea in the Year(s): Cannot yet be determined from serial number. On a side panel it says, Fender (Ver.1.1) Beta The Fender serial number decoder currently supports all documented MIA, MIJ and MIM formats with the exception of Custom Shop, Relic and Reissue instruments. Fender Squire guitars are also not supported at this time. Please note that fender serial numbers tend to overlap by at least a year, and thereby the date of your guitar can only be approximated. Am I to assume since this site does not support Squier and info did come back that this guitar is a Fender that was MIK and not a Squier? I looked up a serial number VN59xxxx on web site, The Guitar Dater Project - Fender Serial Number Decoder, and it comes back Guitar Info Your guitar was made in Korea in the Year(s): Cannot yet be determined from serial number. On a side panel it says, Fender (Ver.1.1) Beta The Fender serial number decoder currently supports all documented MIA, MIJ and MIM formats with the exception of Custom Shop, Relic and Reissue instruments.

The large Fender logo of the export Squier series was soon changed to a large Squier logo. The first Fender Japan guitars are. Squier II serial number would. PRODUCT REGISTRATION. To assist us in better serving our customers, please take a minute to register your Fender products.

Fender Squire guitars are also not supported at this time. Please note that fender serial numbers tend to overlap by at least a year, and thereby the date of your guitar can only be approximated. Am I to assume since this site does not support Squier and info did come back that this guitar is a Fender that was MIK and not a Squier? Click to expand.VN5 was a serial number used on Made in Korea Strats from Saehan/Vester. VN serials were made as either 'Squier by Fender' or 'Fender Squier Series'.

The former were cheaper models with lower grade hardware, the later had slightly better quality hardware and some dimensions were closer to US Fender spec, although the body materials on most of them in both cases were plywood (some later VN5s with two color gold logos had solid wood bodies) and the electronics were cheap import type on all of them (dime size 500k pots and 0.022uf caps) with cheap ceramic pickups. Tuners in both cases were typically the dreaded 'trapezoid' type, unsealed with stamped sheet metal covers.

The main differences (besides the headstock logo) were the 'Fender Squier Series' had a body that was 1-3/4' thick like a 'real' Strat instead of 1-5/8' and the trem was US width 2-7/32' and had a full size (albiet still pot metal) block and Fender stamped steel saddles instead of the narrow MIM/Import width (2-1/16') trem with thin pot metal block and die cast zinc saddles on the 'Squier by Fender'. The Fender Squier Series guitars also usually got a thicker, better quality pickguard with a nicer beveled edge while the Squier by Fender usually got a thin single ply pickguard with a flat cut edge. VN black logo Squier by Fender is worth $50-$100, VN gold logo Squier by Fender is worth $75-$100 or so. VN Fender Squier Series (silver & black logo) is worth $75-$125. Those are typical resale values for where I live, prices will vary in other parts of the world.

Can you post some pics? Full length of guitar front and back. Closeup of headstock front and back. Eberle Pls 508 Manual Treadmill there. Closeup of pickguard area. If possible closeup of back side of pickguard and the routing under the pickguard, closeup of the back side of the trem with the back cover off and closeups of the heel of the neck and inside the neck pocket. Those pickups would really help figure out what you've got.

And I'm wondering since you aren't sure. What it might be.

Are the headstock markings missing or illegible? It should say on there what you've got.

If its a 'Fender Squier Series' it will be in silver & black with the 'Fender' big and a small 'Squier Series' on the ball end of the headstock -- be aware that this is commonly sanded off and sometimes re-finished and can be hard to tell. If its a 'Squier by Fender' the logo will either be all black (early models, almost always plywood bodies) or black and gold.