Manufactured in the Japanese Chu Shin Gakki factory, charvel model 1, charvel model 2, charvel.
JAPANESE GUITAR IDENTIFICATION SERIAL NUMBERS
There's not as much available history on this period of the Korean industry as there is in Japan, so I've never been able to pin down which factory made these though-neck Satellite/Memphis/Whoever P copies - having owned one myself, I'd certainly like to know. Japanese Import Charvel Models charvel japan and charvel japanese serial numbers start at 220000. Korean factories were upping their game & jumping on the through-neck bandwagon, which was very popular at the time, and factories like Cor-tek (Cort) produced some great quality original designs based around that template. Please note that fender serial numbers tend to overlap by at least a year, and thereby the date of. 2.0) The Fender serial number decoder currently supports all documented MIA, MIJ, MIM, MIK and MII formats with the exception of Custom Shop, Relic and Reissue instruments. Since Ibanez is one of the leading guitar companies used on this forum, I thought id dump my knowledge of the brand on to you, so you may buy yourself a real quality Ibanez guitar This comes after I get countless PM’s on which to buy is this any good so on and so forth. The bridge design on the fretless bass turns up on various string-through basses from both Japanese & Korean manufacturers, however by the time these basses were in the shops (I can remember looking at them in 1980!) Japanese factories had pretty much abandoned the copy market, at least for export. The Guitar Dater Project - Fender Serial Number Decoder. An article by MarcMaiden - Related Article. These basses would have been sold all around the world with a variety of different rebrands and detail differences.
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I wouldn't swear this fretless was definitely a Satellite, though, there were numerous short-run rebrands (plenty of local music shops imported their own ranges back then), and no-name guitars were pretty common too.
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Memphis as a brand would never have been sold in the UK.
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Memphis wasn't a manufacturer, it was a brand used by a US importer, much as Satellite was a brand used by UK importer Fletcher, Coppock & Newman Ltd, alongside their Columbus & Kimbara brands.