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The revised 'Series 2' design first appeared around late ' This featured 'open' style saddles mounted on a much thicker, aluminium bridgeplate, which was in turn carried on a correspondingly smaller diameter roller.

The vibrato arm was now fitted to a collar around the string retaining spindle and this collar could be swivelled to vary arm angle height as required. The spindle was sited further forward, as the attached vibrato spring was shorter and now faced backwards, terminating at a tension adjuster.

The vibrato arm access hole in the cover top naturally was moved forward to match, but just to muddy the waters in typical Burns manner of course! This means some covers fit and line up better than others, while the partner threaded body inserts also play their part in accurate or otherwise positioning.

The flanged cover used on the various basses and the Double Six adopted a similar appearance but was deeper to provide the necessary extra clearance. Jimmy Jams, 22nd April Presumed circa mid, preparing for a Trade Fair?

Post by n. Jim used to buy the rough shapes from a furniture manufacture in Epping. Lez Andrews used to get the bits together and craft them to shape. My arrival: Jack Golder got in touch with me to start up the machine shop. Jack hadn't been with them long, he started underneath Lez as a cabinet maker but Jack had plenty of rabbit and talked his way to managing the firm!

Teaser Season 1: Sweet Home. Episodes Sweet Home. Season 1. Release year: Episode 1 50m. Episode 2 57m. Episode 3 46m. Episode 4 47m. Episode 5 45m. Episode 6 54m. Episode 7 49m. Episode 8 53m. Episode 9 55m. Episode 10 59m. Around this time, the serial numbers became a bit unpredictable, as they were figuring out a new system.

The "S" prefix also first appeared at this time. Semi-Hollow models at this time use a different format with no month, and the serial is found on the label inside the top f-hole. Bolt-neck models started having the serial number engraved into the neckplate in They kept the same format, so the decade is determined by the style of neck plate.

Note: The new design did not appear until May , so any early year models retain the '80s style plate. Some lower-end bolt-neck models have blank neckplates with just a serial number engraved, using the format:. At the turn of the millennium, bolt-neck models kept the same format and neckplate style, so these guitars must be dated by their logo style, headstock style and other features.

Around although some examples have been found with stickers as late as , all set neck models switched to a silk-screened serial number on the back of the headstock with an "S" prefix:.

While contract builds always included the prefix, it wasn't always used on Samick brand guitars. Use the Serial Number!

Fender Serial Dating First, narrow it down by the country of origin. For US instruments, the serial number will start with a letter. That letter indicates the decade. That number indicates the specific year.

S9 means E4 means N8 means Z5 means US11 means The remaining digits are important for product identification, but the first few characters are all you need to determine the instruments age.