Who made Squier guitars in 1989?

In 1989, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation controlled the Squier name. No plant is on record for that year.^[1]

A Squier guitar from 1989 belongs to whichever era was running on its product line that year. An era is a stretch when the company that controlled the name and the plant that built the line both stayed the same. If you know the line, the table below tells you which version of Squier you have. The name dates from 1890^{[S447, S449]}, 99 years before.

Line by line in 1989

Line	Controlled by	Parent	Built at	Era	Grade
Squier Korea	Fender Musical Instruments Corporation	—	No plant on record	1989–1992	unverified^[1]

What changed in 1989

Squier Korea: a new era begins under Fender Musical Instruments Corporation^[1]
Squier Korea: the 1987–1989 era ends (Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Young Chang (Korea; city not given))^{[1, 2, 3]}

Other brands in 1989

Squier, year by year

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1
Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A (2012), accession 0001193125-12-298421graded primary
2
Serial numbers Stratocaster Koreagraded community
3
A Brief History of Squier Guitarsgraded secondary

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