Hamer Guitar Serial Number Lookup

DATING GUITARS AND MANDOLINS
BY REFERENCE OF SERIAL NUMBERS

Serial numbers can be useful in determining the year of manufacture of a guitar or amp.
But due to incomplete registrations and illogical serial numbers, its history is often unclear.
With the help of the serial number decoder, tables and instructions are the year and location
of the largest well-known brands.

Gretsch serials
Jackson serials
Squier serials

Potentiometer codes

Looking up the year of manufacture of a guitar or amplifier(Fender) is based on the format of the serial number of that brand. Each brand has its own coding method that has changed regularly over the years. As a result, certain brands have the same serial numbers, but with a different coding method, which creates overlaps. There are also brands that repeat a serial number every decade.
Then the external characteristics of the guitar are important to place the dating in the correct decade. Connoisseurs and specialists, who can be found in the various guitar forums, can help you with this.

With no (or unreadable) serial numbers, the electronic parts of an electric guitar also give an indication.
For example, the production code of the potentiometers can give an indication about the year of manufacture
of the guitar.

How To Look Up A Guitar By Serial Number

How To Search Guitar Serial Numbers

From 1974 through 1981 Hamer USA employed two separate serial numbering systems, one for custom instruments and one for production models: Custom Instruments: These instruments are easily recognized by the use of a four digit number stamped into the wood on the back of the peghead. The numbers ran from #0000 through #0680. The first number following the prefix is the year. 6 or 7 digit number. The first guitars made in Korea are those with serial number written in silver E1 + 6 digits Examples: E1 + 6 digits with silver serial = made by Samick in 1987-88. You can search for similar serial numbers by leaving off the final digit of a serial number. If your guitar has a pointy headstock and adiminishing sized Kramer logo with the letters diminishing in size from the K to the R and,there is a script 'American' decal after the 'KRAMER' logo, it is a 1987-1994 American Series Kramer Guitar. That it is an iconic guitar that graces an album cover helped too. When vintage guitar shop owners Paul Hamer, John Montgomery, and Jol Danzig started Hamer Guitars in 1973 out of a vintage guitar shop in Wilmette, Illinois, their instruments quickly became sought after by professional musicians.