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They also used numbers like '9' for both 19, so that's also tough to interpret. And then you could also have a 1999 model with a serial like '13109xxx', which would be 'October 13th, 1999'. so you could have a 1999 or older model that the serial reads '1339xxx', which would be 'March 13th, 1999'. But my understanding of that situation is that it happened prior to 2000. Some serials only use a single digit for months 1 through 9, so it is also possible for serial numbers to be one digit 'shorter' due to that.

You said it is used, right?ĮDIT: Just to add to this. It's possible someone just took the inspection sticker off. That serial reads 'China Factory - June 19th, 2000 - 472nd instrument built that year'. So to sum all that up, yes China is a legit manufacturing plant. The rest are the sequential order they came off the assembly line, so yours was the 372nd guitar built that year. The next digit is the year, so yours was built in '2000'. The next two digits are the month, so yours was built in 'June' (the 6th month). My limited (see what I did there) understanding of these serial numbers is that the first two digits are the day of the month, so yours was built on the '19th' of the month.

so it can be Chinese made and still be legit. The LTD basses moved production around a lot between China, Indonesia, Japan, etc.

The 'RS' means it was made at the China factory. Click to expand.So I don't think it's a fake, but I'm also no expert on fake guitars.

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