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The serialization on the Import series models is for identification only, and does not depict the year of manufacture. Rich serialization does provide numbers which correspond to the year, as well as the quantity of guitars that were built in that year. In 1980, the year digits were two years ahead, and by 1981, they were off by four years! Currently, the American-made B.C.

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By the late 1970s, they ran out of numbers and had to begin using serial numbers meant for the following years production. The five-digit serial number was encoded YYZZZ, with the first two digits indicating the year and the last three indicating consecutive production.

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In 1974, a serial number code was devised. When production formally commenced in 1972, the first 350 guitars were numbered sequentially.

Rich trademark was adopted, Rico built acoustic guitars for the first two years, and then switched to custom-built solid body electrics. RICHBernardo Chavez Rico learned his luthier skills from his father, Bernardo Mason Rico. If the code does not fit the above criteria, dont force it and skew your dating results.(Source: George Gruhn and Walter Carter, Guitar Player magazine, October 1990)SERIALIZATIONД®ral variations have been used and anything is quite possible.(Source: Michael Wright/Aria)Д«. Guild apparently had the same good fortune in 1979, for when Moust visited the factory they still had a good supply of 79 pots - which explains why every Guild since then has had simillarly dated pots! Finally, a word of caution: not all potentiometer manufacturers subscribed to the EIA source code date, and early Japanese components did not use the international coding like the American and European builders.

Moust has speculated that when CBS bought Fender, they found a good deal on pots and bought a three-year supply. Mousts research has indicated that virtually all Fenders from 1966 to 1969 have pots dated from 1966. When dating an instrument by the pot code, keep two things in mind: The potentiometers must be original to the piece (new solder, or a date code that is off by ten or more years is a good giveaway to spot replacement pots) and the pot code only indicates when the potentiometer was built! If the pot is an original, it indicates a date before which the guitar could not have been built so its always a good idea to have extra reference material around. Any final two digits with a code number over 52 possibly indicate a part number instead of a week of the year code. The final two digits in either of the codes indicate the week of the year the potentiometer was built. If the code is seven digits long, then the fourth and fifth digits indicate the year.

The most common company codes are: 137 CTS 304 Stackpole 140 Clarostat 134 Centralab 106 Allen Bradley 381 Bourns Networks If the code is only six digits long, then the fourth digit is the year code (between 19). Sometimes these digits may be separated by a space, a hyphen, or a period. The first three digits indicate the company that built the potentiometer.

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Its fairly easy to crack the source code. Mousts research has indicatedthat there are no source date codes on any guitar pots before the late 1940s, and no single-digit year code after 1959 (six-digit source code). The EIA assigns each manufacturer a three-digit code (there are some with one, two or four digits). The source dating code is an element of standardization that is administered by the Electronics Industries Association (EIA), formed in 1924. SERIALIZATIONPOTENTIOMETER CODING: SOURCE DATE CODEAn Important Instrument Dating Breakthrough developed by Hans Moust (author, The Guild Guitar Book) Stamped on every potentiometer (volume and tone pots) is a six- or seven-digit source code that tells who made the pot, as well as the week and the year.