Yours would be a ' descendant' of the YN line with the maple fretboard. Even though you have a 22-fret neck, I suspect it is 42mm at the nut, a change from the 43.2mm nut on NC & YNs. The NC, YN models all have 8 hole pickguards, 22 frets, full size solid wood bodies, and pretty nice ceramic pickups. These guitars came in 'Bullet Series('93,'94, '95, 96) Standard like the YN5 & NC6 Standards.

Anyway by '94 production was in full swing with '94, '96 & '97 being made with the serial numbers NC***** and '93, '95 & '97 with the serial numbers YN*****. The early ones are scarce, I've only seen a '92 and forget if it was a NC***** or YN*****.

What you have is kind of a 'leftover', but in a very good way. Hopefully, I'll have mine in a week or so! Anyway, if anyone has come across one of these - as I've said I've only seen this logo on black-bodied, maple-necked Squiers - I would love to hear about it. However, several other sites indicate that it's the 2 numbers after the prefix designates the year. Example: CY2xxxxxxx = made by Yako in 2002-03.' If that's true, then these guitars with CY98xxxxxx are actually from 1999. 'CY (“Crafted in China”) - C = China, Y = Yako (Taiwan), the first number following the prefix is the year. I'm also confused about the year in the serial Squier Wiki says: Several were sold on Reverb, and several were discussed in this forum, but it doesn't seem like anyone knows for sure what model it is. Black on black full-sized body, maple neck and fretboard, 22 frets, 8-hole 3-ply pickguard and trapezoid tuners. The only other guitars I've been able to find are on the same model and color guitar. Hi newbie first-time post, great to be here! Been looking with interest at this thread and other similar ones, as I've just bought a Squire CY98 with an unusual headstock logo. The serial number on mine is ICS 10207421, so I know the year, but is there any other way to determine the difference between a Standard and an Affinity? It also appears likely that any FSR guitar beginning with ICS will be a Squier 'Standard' as opposed to any of the other models i.e. It therefore appears as though the the S in ICS is only an indication as to whether it is a Factory Special Run or FSR guitar (manufactured by Cor-Tek in Indonesia). There are a number of standard models that have the ICS prefix some are FSR but some are just normal run models. In 2009-10 some Indonesian Squier's had the prefix ICS09XXXXX and ICS10XXXXX. IS: I = Indonesia, S = Samick, the serial number prefix is followed by a 2 number year. IC: I = Indonesia, C = Cor-Tek (Cort), the serial number prefix is followed by a 2 number year. But on looking up serial number on Google I came across this.

I bought a Squier Affinity Strat last Dec.

Fender squier serial numbers