Guitar year
Guitar year
What year was my Tracer made? I tried searching on the net with no luck
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Re: Guitar year
I already found that.. I was hoping to find someone that know how to read the serial numbers to find out the exact date... But thanks anyway
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Exact date? That's a tall order. I don't know of many normal production items which can be tied to an exact date. Custom items, that's a different story.
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Really!
A question occurred to me. When in the manufacturing process were the serial numbers stamped into the necks?
Scenario A:
Were the numbers stamped after being milled but prior to fretwork and/or installation of hardware? Were they stamped after the necks were completed but still prior to being affixed to bodies?
It seems to me that it would be easier to stamp the heads without tuning machines installed, easier to lay flat. Then these stamped necks would have gone into a stock of completed necks that would later have been combined with bodies, electronics, and strings. From a manufacturing point of view, I can see advantages to this.
Scenario B:
Or was there a master craftsman who after all assembly, tuning, and inspection were completed; finally deemed each individual guitar worthy and then stamped on the numbers? (Sounds romantic, like the notion of one master craftsman getting lumber, drying, shaping the pieces, and finally assembling instruments...prior to the hand-finishing.) Seems unlikely in the modern, efficient manufacturing process that Peavey brought to the industry.
I don't know how it was done. A case certainly can be made for either scenario. My question is, if Scenario A was the method used and necks with serial numbers were built to stock, how would you even have decided on a specific "built-on" date in the first place? Much less tried to keep track of it?
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I own a couple Fenders whose necks were made and stamped the year before they were attached to a body and shipped. Not sure how Peavey guitars are assembled.
I also own a bunch of Seymour Duncan Custom Shop pickups. They all came in a box which was signed and dated by the person who built and wound them. I have plenty of regular production SD pickups that have none of that info.
Stock production is just production and years are usually the granularity.
Ultimately, if it sounds good - who cares when it was made?
And the OP question was what year was my Tracer made?
I also own a bunch of Seymour Duncan Custom Shop pickups. They all came in a box which was signed and dated by the person who built and wound them. I have plenty of regular production SD pickups that have none of that info.
Stock production is just production and years are usually the granularity.
Ultimately, if it sounds good - who cares when it was made?
And the OP question was what year was my Tracer made?
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I agree with you.
My "question" was mostly rhetorical. The topic just started me thinking about what all was involved in manufacturing large quantities of musical instruments.
Yes it was, wasn't it?
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I'm with you, brother!
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By means of hypothetical interpolation,
I have determined that the OP's production guitar was built on the 23rd of January, 1991
I have determined that the OP's production guitar was built on the 23rd of January, 1991
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Ahhhh, finally, closure at last.
James Paul's PeaveysEnzo wrote:I find if the amp is working, that is a good point to stop fixing it.
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