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Old 11-06-2014, 12:53 PM
DanPanther DanPanther is offline
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Originally Posted by dahuzi View Post
The serial number wizard on Yamaha's website only works for FG series and is not very helpful. It's based on a very simple formula -- the first digit of the serial number signifies the last digit of the year it was manufactured (9 can be 1999, 1989, 1979, depending on the model number). The next four digits are the month and day. The last three are the number of your guitar produced in that day. However, the L series guitars cannot apply to the formula. And I have yet to have a clue how Yamaha dates its L series guitars. Anyway, congratulations on your LJ6. It is a nice one!
So According to this, My FG-140 is as follows. 1162423

1971, 81, or 91

The 24th of

16th month

23 build.

Dan
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