All About Serial Numbers on Halo Guitars

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We started building this company 15 years ago and it has taken a lot of hard work and a fair share of getting our hands dirty, which brings us to this week's Pro-Tip: Where to find the serial number on a Halo guitar.
We are proud of the fact we craft every guitar from scratch and every Halo guitar gets a hand-stamped serial number.

In most cases, your serial number will be stamped on the inside of the electronics cavity that is on the back of your guitar.

Let’s take a quick look at Halo's serialization code to see what it all means! Each serial number will start with an “I” for Import or "D" for Domestic. We build the vast majority of our guitars at the Halo Factory in China while only a select number of guitars are built at our shop in Cupertino, California. If there is “C” in the serial number, then it stands for "custom." If there isn't a "C," then it means the guitar is from a small batch production run. The remaining digits correspond to the year your guitar was built (e.g. "18" stands for the year 2018) and from there it is just the sequence number, which represents the nth guitar we worked on at that time. For instance, if your guitar's serial number reads IC1884 it means your guitar was the 84th guitar we worked on during that particular time in our custom shop circa 2018!

Since we craft all our instruments in small batches, we can make sure the human touch is maintained throughout the entire build process before it arrives in your hands where it belongs.

Photo: Brandon Benedict, Luthier, preparing to serialize a custom build:

Photo: Brandon Benedict, Luthier, lining up the stamp:

Photo: Aftermath of applying the serial number

Photo: All done!