Bicentennial Guitars and Basses?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:55 am
Gonna run this up the flagpole...I remember reading this posting when searching for dot marker information on 70's basses. No one posted a picture, but does anyone here have the red, white and blue theme from '76? I'm guessing the 3-dots would have ended up on guitar models, but I am not familiar enough to know.by Bob Scott (lowendbob) ยป Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:21 am
I received an email from Mark A. on this question.
"As I was one of the persons that installed dots from 1972 to 1976 ... I can tell you , that generally ... red dots were NOT used at the factory in the 1970's . But we did in fact use several colors ... was there a reason for this ?
Sort of ... the hobby shop where Bill Meyers bought the 1/16" round vinyl material would sometimes be out of the 'normal' spool color we were using ... so we would substitute a dark green , brown , dark purple , blue and even red when they were out of black .
In 1976 due to the Bi-centenial celebrations .... we did lots of blue basses with red dots ... and the instruments that were drilled with one dot at the octave , were turned into three dot octave markers ...thsi were then given the center dot of red and the rest blue .
There were some instruments that were red dotted , but rare ..... I hope this helps" .
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I just saw this after posting. Cool RWB guitar and bass sets.
Thanks for sharing.
