Serial Numbers : What is the production date of my guitar?

[5Stringer]

Tony, sure! Your Translucent Purple EVH was completed on 7/19/95 and was shipped originally to GC in central Chicago. Nice ~

Dan

 

[busboy]

DannyB, this Albert was built on 9/09/08. Yours? Or yours soon?

Dan

Thanks Dan, yes I own it....managed to purchase it over the summer and its beautiful!
I understood it was from 1993, just wasn't sure of the exact date.
Funny, this one was built two years earlier (to the day) than a blue EVH I already owned...I'm looking to sell that one sometime soon.
Take care!
J

 

[busboy]

oops...sorry Dan, was referring to the DOB request on the Natual EVH a few postings up. (Not the Albert)

 

[5Stringer]

yes .. I reread that post many times trying to follow that conversation .. was corn-fuzeled!

Dan

 

[LukeMan99]

Hi 5Stringer!

Luke I pearl blue, 98451.
S.Morse sparkle black, G22396.
Thank you very much again.

-LukeMan99-

 

[michalkow]

Hi
I would like to know something more about Silhouette G12389. I am going to buy this guitar. Could you help me?

Michal

 

[stickist]

My Musicman John Petrucci 7 String Mystdic Dream SN:F18037

Thanks

 

[somesmerized]

Hello, I would like to have some information on the following serial numbers:

92998

88057

Many thanks
JM

 

[5Stringer]

Hi 5Stringer!

Luke I pearl blue, 98451.
S.Morse sparkle black, G22396.
Thank you very much again.

-LukeMan99-

LukeMan, here are your build dates:

98451 - 10/02/96 , shipped to Finland.
G22396 - 2/18/03, shipped a store in Olyphant, PA, U.S.

Nice!

Dan

 

[5Stringer]

Hi
I would like to know something more about Silhouette G12389. I am going to buy this guitar. Could you help me?

Michal

Michal, Welcome to the Forum, interesting find! This Silhouette HSH with tremolo in Metal Flake Brown was built on 11/15/00 and was shipped to Royal Music Center in Brooklyn. It has a solid maple neck and was shipped with a white pickguard

MFB was, to say the least, not a very popular color, didn't last too long.

Dan

 

[5Stringer]

My Musicman John Petrucci 7 String Mystdic Dream SN:F18037

Thanks

stickist, your JP was built on 05/11/07. Nice!

 

[5Stringer]

Hello, I would like to have some information on the following serial numbers:

92998

88057

Many thanks
JM

JM, here's what I found:

92998 - This one does not show up in our database. What is it?

88057 - This comes up as a Trans BLue EVH, built on 9/15/95.

Dan

 

[somesmerized]

JM, here's what I found:

92998 - This one does not show up in our database. What is it?

88057 - This comes up as a Trans BLue EVH, built on 9/15/95.

Dan

thank you! It's supposed to be a 1988 silo made for Keith Richards, it's on eBay right now. It looks legit tho. My mom is a huge RS fan!

 

[5Stringer]

Are you sure of the serial number?

 

[somesmerized]

Are you sure of the serial number?

Yes, that's from the ebay ad.

Q: Hello, I was hoping that you could share the Serial Number of the guitar, Thanks JM
A: body... 92998 neck... 88057 you may contact Dudley at Music Man for any thing else as he hand made it and was at the studio when Keith ordered them... don

 

[Guitarburetor]

Dudley's two cents...

Hey Everybody,

Don Smith is a great guy that was the recording engineer on Keith Richards X-Pensive Whinos Main Offender album, and I also had the priveledge of seeing him at work on The Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge recording sessions. These were great times in my life, and part of the reason I was there was to work on some of Keith's guitars and deliver some new ones.

All the pieces of the puzzle regarding the serial number on the neck plate indicate this is one of the guitars we made for Keith and he gave to Don. THE CORRECT SERIAL NUMBER FOR THE NECK PLATE IS 92298.

HOWEVER, the serial number on the neck does not have anything to do with EVH. Perhaps Don misunderstood me in the conversation we had, as I told him that the serial numbers beginning with 8 in our computer files indicate this number as an EVH guitar because the EVH series all begin with a number 8.

The first few years of EB/MM guitar production, we put the serial number on the back of the headstock, with the first 2 digits indicating the year of manufacture. So this neck is a 1988 neck (which just happens to have the same serial number as some EVH out there) and the body is a 1992 as indicated by the number on the neck plate. Ironically, the numbers 92 in the neck plate serial number DO NOT themselves indicate this as a 1992, as we discontinued this scheme, but coincidentally it is a '92.

We made numerous Silhouettes for Keith and Ron Wood back in those days, and my guess is that the neck was perhaps swapped with the neck on another guitar. Maybe Keith loved this neck, but it was on a white body or...? But that is only a guess.

In any case, the pedigree of this guitar seems to be that it was one of Keith's personal guitars, and was signed by him and given to Don.

Cheers, Dudley

 

[Coffeemug]

Hey Dan,

Christmas came early this year...I just caught Santa wearing a brown guise dropping off a big box at the front porch...

Serial# G39117


Thanks in advance and season's greetings,
Patrick.

 

[somesmerized]

In any case, the pedigree of this guitar seems to be that it was one of Keith's personal guitars, and was signed by him and given to Don.

Cheers, Dudley

Thank you, Dudley, much appreciated.
JM

 

[guitfiddle]

Another one!

Well, I guess I'm officially hooked. This is my 3rd EBMM in 2 months. What can you tell me about G27341?

Thanks again Dan!

 

[p3t3rb]

Hi Just bought Axis Super Sport with tremolo, vintage sunburst. Serial g21346

any info much appreciated.