Vantage Dating and Serialnumbers
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VANTAGE serial numbers (electric guitars/basses)
How to Identify a Hondo Guitar. Hondo guitars started in Texas in the late 1960s, teaming up with the Korean company Samick to manufacture guitars to. Indeed, several! Hondo Paul Dean II Electric Guitar (Hondo PD- 2)Loverboy was founded in Calgary in 1. Canada in that year. 7/8 measure –no product code&no serial number in the. Fernandes created faithful recreations of Fender instruments; and Takamine and Suzuki both made acoustic guitars nearly identical to certain Martin models. Interestingly, most Japanese copies of the time didn’t have serial numbers — a great way to tell if an instrument is truly a “lawsuit” guitar, even today.
Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup By Name
1978?/79:
V-100 model: “V-100”-sticker, no serial
1979 models:
VLP Spirit: six digit ser.nos. Rising world download. 05xxxx
Vantage Standard – VS: five digit ser.nos. 6xxxx
Vantage Performer – VP: five digit ser.nos. 7xxxx
700VP
Vantage Artist – VA: five digit ser.nos. 8xxxx
VA-800
Ghost (VP-750):
no or hard to read serial number.
1979 models: 4 digit serial number.
1979/1980 (until 4/80):
6 digit serial numbers: 0xxxxx
1980 (April) – 1984 (June?):
7 digit serial numbers
First digit = year of production (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984)
Digits 2 + 3 = month of production
VS-650
0040415 = 1980 – April – 0415
1980/81:
VA-900 series: 6 digits:
First digit (0 or 1) = year
Digts 2+3 month
VA-900
006108 = 1980 – June – 108
7 digit # for late ’81 models
1981/82:
“Special” series of VP and VA models: five digit ser.nos: 71xxx or 72xxx(VP), 81xxx or 82xxx(VA) (following the number system of their ’79/ ’80 predecessors)
1984 – 1988:
Letter prefix serial numbers:
(A-L)xxxxxx: letter=month
– A=January
– B=February
– C=March
– D=April
– E-May
– F=June
– G=July
– H=August
– I=September
– J=October
– K=November
– L=December
First digit=year of production (unconfirmed!)
33B-XF
J500338 = October – 1985 – 00338
1990 – 1998 (Samick models):
Acoustic models (THis information is not verefied!!!)
Matsumoku didn’t produce any acoustic guitars themself. Their were set out to other factories.
Hondo Guitar Serial Number Lookup Online
Here’s a list of producers with the code:
S = Samick
C = Cort
K = KWO
F = Fujigen
P = Peerless factory in Pusan Korea. PA = Acoustic and PE = Electric