Finding the exact DAY?

[DBR]

Hello Folks,
Is there any way to find the exact DAY of the month a Ric is born?
Thanks in advance.

[Bighouse]

I've been told NO.

[beatlefreak]

The month is as close as you can get for older serial numbers, the week for newer ones.

[doctorwho]

The month is as close as you can get for older serial numbers, the week for newer ones.

+1

[beatlefreak]

I'm not sure how you'd define the day it was 'born' anyway. When they started making it?. When the jackplate was put on? When it shipped from the factory?

[cjj]

Hey, good point! Since it takes many days to complete an instrument, the idea of an exact day of manufacture doesn't really make much sense. Nailing it down to a particular week is probably about as good as you can get...

[DBR]

Thanks for the responses, Folks. Much obliged & it all makes sense.

[bails]

As far serials and the like go, it's important to note that nothing's precise. I recieved my mid 1990's 340, with a serial number that corresponded to the following month. I had a guitar from the future...
I'm sure this is fairly normal because they don't stamp the jackplate the same day it goes on a guitar, and they're hardly likely to hold a guitar back just to ensure it leaves the factory after the serial number says it can!

[jdogric12]

There is a way.

Go work there.

[beatlefreak]

I'm sure this is fairly normal because they don't stamp the jackplate the same day it goes on a guitar, and they're hardly likely to hold a guitar back just to ensure it leaves the factory after the serial number says it can!

My 330DCM has a jackplate that says the guitar was manufactured the last week of September/the first week of October in 2006, but my dealer didn't get the instrument until December 15th.

[jdogric12]

I had one of the rare early DCM's too, a 360 from week 39 of 2006. I think it arrived in November. Makes sense - time for the paint to cure enough to handle and ship.

[beatlefreak]

Mine also is from week 39. The dealer received it Decembar 15th, and when I got to the store, they brought it out from the back still sealed in the shipping box. When I opened the case, the smell of the finish was overpowering. I believe that had there been an open flame in the area, the guitar would have caught fire.

[jimk]

Interesting. You know, when I opened up the case for the first time, I expected to smell something like ...oh...i don't know...lavender, or vanilla, or maybe rose. My guitar just smelled like new wood. And it still does two and a half months later. I don't mind, not at all. I'm a little surprised, is all.

JimK

[admin]

Jim: What you smell is elixir of the gods.

[jimk]

Oh....so that's why my memory is a little fuzzy about those summer jobs I had working in my Uncle's lumber mill in Oregon so many years ago. Too much elixir of the gods, I guess.
JimK