Westone Guitar Serial Numbers

Many serial numbers on guitars built there during this era use the first digit to indicate the year the guitar was produced, so the leading “0” in your.

quote name='badboy1984' timestamp=' post='2747160'I've got the westone thunder 1A fretless. Play nice but I'm not too keen on the active mode consider is bass boost and cut treble or treble boost and cut bass.Also it takes 2x 9v battery.I use my as passive mode./quoteI've got a Spectrum LX which I think has the same EQ as the Thunder 1A - a passive treble cut tone pot and the active tone pot which seems to be a semi-parametric control with a boost that's sweepable from high treble right down to deep bass. In active mode I tend to favour passive tone fully open and boosting the bass somewhat.

Looks exacty like the Spectrum Series II that I had back in 1990 - apart from the colour and the fact mine had two pickups. Everything else - including the logo and the large screws at the neck joint looks the same. I think mine may have had one extra tone knob and a 3-position switch to choose between the pickups. The bridge may have been slightly different but I can't really remember - haven't seen that bass in over 20 years It was a passive bass that looked, in fact, like this one: but had open pole pieces and the logo like yours.

To get that all black look on the pickups I coloured in the pole pieces with black fibre-tipped penWhat I do remember was that it was heavy and sounded pretty rubbish through the Laney 65W Linebacker combo I had at the time - but I think that might have been the combo. Have often looked out for a Series II but this is the first I've seen in a long long time.

Golf r 7.5 faster without traction control system. Have fun with it.

Models Specifications and Info. About serialnumbers on Shiro Arai Co./Matsumoku Guitars.Serial numbers for theseguitars is not a perfect science, but in nearly all cases after Matsumoku'sinvolvement they can be trusted to indicate what year the guitar was produced.Shiro Arai Co. Most guitars produced by Araisuch as the Aria Diamonds (not to be confused with the Aria Pro II Diamonds),Lyle, Conrad, Maxi-Tone, Japanese Epiphone, Univox, and the other pre-1976guitars often had serial numbers usually on the neck plate (I imagine sodealers could track warranty, etc.). Unfortunately the number was arbitraryand had little to do with when the guitar was produced.

After Arai joinedforces with Matsumoku, the serial numbers began to have some bearing onthe guitar's production year and rank in production sequence. Serial numberson these guitars were arbitrary numbers and did not indicate date of manufacture.When dating these guitars only ballpark ranges is possible. One tip isthe type of pickups. Single coil trapezoid face = mid to late 1960s, P-90sized single and dual coil pickups = early 1970s, normal humbuckers andmore strat like singles = early to mid 1970s.Guitars produced by Matsumoku Nearly all guitars producedby Matsumoku (beginning sometime late 1976 or early 1977) bore serial numbersindicating the year and possibly production sequence. A small number ofguitars produced had serials preceeded by a letter, but as to what theletter inidicated is yet a mystery and one can only guess without concreteevidence. I have seen both 6 and 7 digit serial numbers (excluding theletter if it is present).This new serialization covered Aria, Aria ProII, Vantage, Westbury, most Westones, Japanese Washburns, some Electras,and the Skylark as well as others.

As far as I know, the Korean versionof these labels bear 8 or more digit serials and sometimes the productionlocaciton code (letter indicating Korea, Phillipines, Indonesia, etc.)which does not concern us here.The first digit (and uponrare occasion the first two) indicated the year. There is an inherent flawwith this single-digit method as the single digit year indicator will re-cycleafter a decade! Attention must be paid to when the particular model wasavailable and apply that to the first digit of the serial, excluding theletter if present. A bit of cross referencing is required. For example,my first Cardinal CS-350 has the serial 2010237 which indicates both bythe first digit and the duration of the Cardinal CS-350 run it is a 1982(and I know it is, I bought it then!). In rare instances the first twodigits would indicate the year, in which case we can safely assume thatmy Cardinal is not a 1920! Had it been the two-digit version it would havebegun with 82XXXXX rather than 20XXXXX, which would also indicate 1982.

Spotting and identifying earlyKorean models after production shifted to Korea. Early Korean models adoptedsimilar looking serial numbers but were not indicative of the year manufacturered.Many early Koreans appeared to be nearly identical to the Japanese modelswith one important thing missing, at least on models with bolt necks andneckplates: 'Made In Japan' or 'Product of Matsumoku'. Without this, itis not an earlier Japanese model. Other tip-offs to later Korean heritageare bridges with squared-off ends, 3rd fret scarf joint in the neck, Schallerstyle tuners on models previously equipped with keystone style tuners,smaller potentiometers, and Quck-hook tailpieces with standard stop-barstud spacing among others.You can contact usregading contributions to this archive, or if you have corrections. Pleasedon't contact us with general guitar questions via e-mail as these arebetter suited to the Message Board's forums.Website design and original content2001-2015 K. Buccola All Rights ReservedNon-commercial Linking tohtml pages is permitted - Linking directly to images is EXPRESSLY FORBIDDENeBay sellers may only link tothis site's HTML pages in their listings.

Many serial numbers on guitars built there during this era use the first digit to indicate the year the guitar was produced, so the leading “0” in your.

quote name='badboy1984' timestamp=' post='2747160'I've got the westone thunder 1A fretless. Play nice but I'm not too keen on the active mode consider is bass boost and cut treble or treble boost and cut bass.Also it takes 2x 9v battery.I use my as passive mode./quoteI've got a Spectrum LX which I think has the same EQ as the Thunder 1A - a passive treble cut tone pot and the active tone pot which seems to be a semi-parametric control with a boost that's sweepable from high treble right down to deep bass. In active mode I tend to favour passive tone fully open and boosting the bass somewhat.

Looks exacty like the Spectrum Series II that I had back in 1990 - apart from the colour and the fact mine had two pickups. Everything else - including the logo and the large screws at the neck joint looks the same. I think mine may have had one extra tone knob and a 3-position switch to choose between the pickups. The bridge may have been slightly different but I can't really remember - haven't seen that bass in over 20 years It was a passive bass that looked, in fact, like this one: but had open pole pieces and the logo like yours.

To get that all black look on the pickups I coloured in the pole pieces with black fibre-tipped penWhat I do remember was that it was heavy and sounded pretty rubbish through the Laney 65W Linebacker combo I had at the time - but I think that might have been the combo. Have often looked out for a Series II but this is the first I've seen in a long long time.

Golf r 7.5 faster without traction control system. Have fun with it.

Models Specifications and Info. About serialnumbers on Shiro Arai Co./Matsumoku Guitars.Serial numbers for theseguitars is not a perfect science, but in nearly all cases after Matsumoku'sinvolvement they can be trusted to indicate what year the guitar was produced.Shiro Arai Co. Most guitars produced by Araisuch as the Aria Diamonds (not to be confused with the Aria Pro II Diamonds),Lyle, Conrad, Maxi-Tone, Japanese Epiphone, Univox, and the other pre-1976guitars often had serial numbers usually on the neck plate (I imagine sodealers could track warranty, etc.). Unfortunately the number was arbitraryand had little to do with when the guitar was produced.

After Arai joinedforces with Matsumoku, the serial numbers began to have some bearing onthe guitar's production year and rank in production sequence. Serial numberson these guitars were arbitrary numbers and did not indicate date of manufacture.When dating these guitars only ballpark ranges is possible. One tip isthe type of pickups. Single coil trapezoid face = mid to late 1960s, P-90sized single and dual coil pickups = early 1970s, normal humbuckers andmore strat like singles = early to mid 1970s.Guitars produced by Matsumoku Nearly all guitars producedby Matsumoku (beginning sometime late 1976 or early 1977) bore serial numbersindicating the year and possibly production sequence. A small number ofguitars produced had serials preceeded by a letter, but as to what theletter inidicated is yet a mystery and one can only guess without concreteevidence. I have seen both 6 and 7 digit serial numbers (excluding theletter if it is present).This new serialization covered Aria, Aria ProII, Vantage, Westbury, most Westones, Japanese Washburns, some Electras,and the Skylark as well as others.

As far as I know, the Korean versionof these labels bear 8 or more digit serials and sometimes the productionlocaciton code (letter indicating Korea, Phillipines, Indonesia, etc.)which does not concern us here.The first digit (and uponrare occasion the first two) indicated the year. There is an inherent flawwith this single-digit method as the single digit year indicator will re-cycleafter a decade! Attention must be paid to when the particular model wasavailable and apply that to the first digit of the serial, excluding theletter if present. A bit of cross referencing is required. For example,my first Cardinal CS-350 has the serial 2010237 which indicates both bythe first digit and the duration of the Cardinal CS-350 run it is a 1982(and I know it is, I bought it then!). In rare instances the first twodigits would indicate the year, in which case we can safely assume thatmy Cardinal is not a 1920! Had it been the two-digit version it would havebegun with 82XXXXX rather than 20XXXXX, which would also indicate 1982.

Spotting and identifying earlyKorean models after production shifted to Korea. Early Korean models adoptedsimilar looking serial numbers but were not indicative of the year manufacturered.Many early Koreans appeared to be nearly identical to the Japanese modelswith one important thing missing, at least on models with bolt necks andneckplates: 'Made In Japan' or 'Product of Matsumoku'. Without this, itis not an earlier Japanese model. Other tip-offs to later Korean heritageare bridges with squared-off ends, 3rd fret scarf joint in the neck, Schallerstyle tuners on models previously equipped with keystone style tuners,smaller potentiometers, and Quck-hook tailpieces with standard stop-barstud spacing among others.You can contact usregading contributions to this archive, or if you have corrections. Pleasedon't contact us with general guitar questions via e-mail as these arebetter suited to the Message Board's forums.Website design and original content2001-2015 K. Buccola All Rights ReservedNon-commercial Linking tohtml pages is permitted - Linking directly to images is EXPRESSLY FORBIDDENeBay sellers may only link tothis site's HTML pages in their listings.