gray490
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Is there anyway to determine the date of a prs guitar without the original hang tag?
Could PRS tell me based on the serial number?
Could PRS tell me based on the serial number?
Bowtiefanatc
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Like the specific date?
You can get close on the pickup cavity. May not be the final date but if it has a modcat that should have a date on it.
You can get close on the pickup cavity. May not be the final date but if it has a modcat that should have a date on it.
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gray490
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In 2021, I contacted PRS customer service to ask them that very question. They claimed that they do not keep a record of the date from the hang tag, nor do they keep a record of the guitar completion date. For Private Stock of course different story, and there may be other exceptions, but that is the response that I was presented with when I queried the source ~3 years ago.
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They can tell you the shipping day though
@gray490,
Talking straight, it's a very worthless effort. Nearly impossible to solve. The hang tag is from my understanding to only document depicting the final assembly date.
Are your two running threads in coincidence with your research on as SAS?
As mentioned: PRS does not feed archives.
I did a research on PRS 513, because in 2011 there are a bunch of guitars with differences in certain visible parts (nut, tuners). And I wanted to dig out a pattern, if there is an actual point, when they changed. My conclusion is - having the S/N and the spec details of nuts and tuners - that there is no pattern. It appears that the involved employees took that parts, which were accidently the first they grabbed in their assembly boxes.
PRS officially (though MODCAT + S/N would allow that) does not count their output, it's not possible even to pin point the quantity of all 513 made between 2004 and 2016.
PRS dates the production years and the continued numbering in that particular year. PRS does have an average output of 1,000 instruments a month.
You could only assume by the serial number, in which month the respective guitar was accomplished.
Talking straight, it's a very worthless effort. Nearly impossible to solve. The hang tag is from my understanding to only document depicting the final assembly date.
Are your two running threads in coincidence with your research on as SAS?
As mentioned: PRS does not feed archives.
I did a research on PRS 513, because in 2011 there are a bunch of guitars with differences in certain visible parts (nut, tuners). And I wanted to dig out a pattern, if there is an actual point, when they changed. My conclusion is - having the S/N and the spec details of nuts and tuners - that there is no pattern. It appears that the involved employees took that parts, which were accidently the first they grabbed in their assembly boxes.
PRS officially (though MODCAT + S/N would allow that) does not count their output, it's not possible even to pin point the quantity of all 513 made between 2004 and 2016.
PRS dates the production years and the continued numbering in that particular year. PRS does have an average output of 1,000 instruments a month.
You could only assume by the serial number, in which month the respective guitar was accomplished.
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gray490
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They are kind of related, because I’ve gotten very close to finding a guitar assembled on the day(s) I’m searching for.
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