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GFS MIM/Import upgrade trem w/vintage style saddles (full sized steel block & folded steel saddles) Wilkinson vintage-Kluson style tuners (they will fit w/o having to enlarge the holes or change bushings & only one screw hole will need to be filled) Sprague Orange Drop 0.047uf cap (better than the ceramic 0.047uf cap in the above kit) GFS strat electronics upgrade kit (250k quarter sized pots, and better quality switch & jack) GFS Premium Texas Stagger Alnico pickup set (or the vintage or overwound if you don't like 'em quite so hot). My standard recommendation for upgrades to these MIKs is: The pots are normally dime sized 500k with a 0.022uf ceramic cap. Pickups are ceramic but actually don't sound that bad. Trem is typical thin pot metal block and cast zinc saddles. The tuners are usually the "trapezoid" type. The tuners, trem, pickups and electronics are generally pretty cheesy. Vester/Saehan built Squiers normally have decent necks and plywood bodies although they don't sound bad for plywood. If you paid less than $100 and it is in good shape then you got a good deal. So, according to the wiki entry, you are entirely correct on your guess.
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Some early 90's examples held a serial number with the prefix M followed by 7 numerals, featured the a high gloss maple neck with a slimmer 40mm body made from plywood." There were also Korean Squier serials with no serial number prefix and 6 or 7 numbers and the first number is the year. The first number following the serial number prefix is the year. S = Samick, E = Young Chang, E letter serial numbers were used on Young Chang's Fenix brand guitars. S/E: The S and E serial number prefix Korean Squiers are from the late 1980s/early 1990s. KC and KV serial number prefixes are usually used on Crafted in Korea Squiers. This can most commonly be found etched into the side of the bridge. For example 73877 would have been bass 7 in the batch completed March 8 1977.
The first digit or first 2 digits month (1-12). USA SERIAL NUMBERS Brooklyn NY era Prior to 1978 our USA instruments had a serial number that was a combination of the batch date and serial number. Date-coded serial numbers are typically found stamped on the back or top of the headstock, and 'Made in USA' is stamped next to the number starting in June 1967. * "KV97" = made by Saehan(Sunghan) in 1997. Gretsch began date-coding serial numbers in August 1966. KC/KV: KC (Korean Cor-Tek (Cort)) and KV (Korean Saehan(Sunghan)), the serial number prefix is followed by a 2 number year. * "VN5" = made by Saehan(Sunghan) in 1995.
* "CN5" = made by Cor-Tek (Cort) in 1995.
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Squier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaĬN/VN: C = Cor-Tek (Cort), V = Saehan(Sunghan), S was already taken by Samick so Saehan(Sunghan) used V instead (Saehan(Sunghan) made the Vester guitars), N = Nineties (1990s), the first number following the serial number prefix is the year.