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Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:42 pm
by ram
Mark - cool evolution - I have some shirts from my late teens early twenties - mostly used as rags now.... alas, I think my ex trashed my pictures from that period. Same pants? You've gotten taller... I do like the new footwear much better! The bass looks much better now as well.
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:18 pm
by johnallg
walker wrote:Congrats on eclipsing the 10k post mark. ALL gems, my friend! Looking forward to the next 10k.
Congrats also on the anniversaries of the V63 & 4003S MGBT. Definitely a couple of significant milestones there! Favor - for those of us (namely me) too lazy to search backwards through this thread, could you post the pics again? Maybe that'll give you inspiration to take some new pics!
Too kind, my friend, too kind.
Here is the 4003S, but I will have to wait till I get home to post a new one of the V63 - all I have are the ones Kevin sent when I was buying it.
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 12:10 am
by walker
Hey - that looks great with the horseshoe PU! I suppose you've already considered making it black to match the rest of the hardware?
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:34 pm
by johnallg
walker wrote:Hey - that looks great with the horseshoe PU! I suppose you've already considered making it black to match the rest of the hardware?
Actually the chrome of the shoes and the little bit of chrome of the neck '73 higain look REALLY good with the black trim. If you like the pic, it looks better in person.
I just wrote myself a note to photograph the V63....
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 11:10 pm
by johnallg
Okay Mark, just for you. Most of what I took were blury, these just pass.
Kevin, sorry if these raise any remorse attacks....
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 12:51 am
by walker
Thanks, John. Sweet cut of wood.
I'm sure most know the answer to this, I've just never noted it - when did RIC stop making the necks with the "skunk stripe?"
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 7:56 am
by cjj
walker wrote:Thanks, John. Sweet cut of wood.
I'm sure most know the answer to this, I've just never noted it - when did RIC stop making the necks with the "skunk stripe?"
The skunk stripe stopped with the introduction of the 4003. There was, as usual, some overlap where 4001's and 4003's were produced so it's hard to pin down an exact date.
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 1:16 pm
by walker
And the 4003 was introduced... when? 1981?
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 2:06 pm
by cjj
Sometime around 1980 or 1981. I'm not really sure when the "official" first 4003 appeared, perhaps nobody really knows. I'm sure there are others who can pin it down better than I can...
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:02 pm
by rickenbrother
I've seen a couple of 4003s with SL serial numbers which would be Dec '79 which might have shipped in early '80.
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:04 am
by walker
(Big fat bump)
Wow! This thread's getting rusty!
Here it is Sept - any anniversaries out there? Those with June-July&August birthdays feel free to chime in as well.
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:24 pm
by ram
OK I'll bite - resubmission - made in Jul '93 my 4004L
Which in Apr '08 augmented to a 4004L8
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:27 pm
by ram
then we have the 4003s5 made in the 39th week of 2000 - I think that was Sep. (also a resubmit):
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:04 pm
by kiramdear
Double anniversary for me past July - '75 430 and '82 320
Re: Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:35 pm
by rickenbrother
This is a great thread. It needs to get bumped more often!