I think the K stamp may mean cashew. Not sure why the neck doesn't have it though?Ever seen one in the neck pocket before?
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Body left over from a previous order for some reason? Stamped a new code where there was space when mated next April with a new neck?I think the K stamp may mean cashew. Not sure why the neck doesn't have it though?
A is lacquer I believe.
J may mean Jacaranda instead of Jaco?
Neck swap? Special order change?
April and then May when the latest stamp on the body was done. The cashew process is lengthy, but again not sure why the neck has a different finish apparently?
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That is not a K..... Or more specifically not a K stamp. So apples and oranges.This Breezy has a different "lot" number in the neck PU cavity (10=9) than in the control cavity (10=8) too. The neck is stamped 10=6 though, and it has what looks like a K (but that would be upside down).
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Either that's not a K (probably not), or K doesn't mean Cashew, because if you look at the guitar (it's a TE70 and check the binding color) it doesn't have a Cashew finish.
That multiple "lot code" thing seems to have happened seldomly, so it could just be a neat way of correcting an error indeed - otherwise it could mean that the whole "lot" idea/information from Tokai is either bogus or we obviously don't have the right idea what the (S.Adachi) meant by "lot". Duh!
If it doesn't refer to an obscure (and meaningless) internal logistics thing anyway - I have mentioned that in some lengthy speculation post before - it could make a little more sense if the number meant "customer" (store, store chain, distributor, importer...) rather than "order number", but ATO mentioned that the numbers go pretty high on some UK market guitars, and there was only one importer/distributor in the UK? Would they have collected orders from UK stores until a container was filled or a certain number of guitars was reached, or would they have ordered them separately in Japan so they got different order numbers and were shipped separately?
(I wish we could get a hold of Eric Dixon and ask him a couple of questions)
I see what you mean but at the same time these are oddities that occur in a very small amount of stamps that we've seen. The bulk orders from Blue Suede can clearly be seen and the codes can be predicted from serials as there was just one importer.I personally don't think the second number is a customer order number. If it were one guitar would not be on two orders for two different customers.
Yeah I probably cross-wired 2 separate posts of yours in my brain, 1981 has one =50 (!) and there are =40 and =42 in other years.haven't seen high 2nd numbers in the UK, from what I've seen the high ones are mainly 1978 guitars and likely to be domestic Japanese sales.
I personally don't think the second number is a customer order number. If it were one guitar would not be on two orders for two different customers.
Yes. I had noticed that and tried to figure what sorts of things would span two consecutive things in one guitar.(Didn't just someone notice that they're often only one number apart?)
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