OmniCognateSnr
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Having recently purchased a Special 22 Semi-hollow 10-top I have been searching tinterweb for guitars of the same spec ( mainly to validate the purchase price to try and justify to myself that I got a good deal, because I’m so shallow ). Haven’t found any in the U.K. of the same spec, which makes my shallowness quite happy, and the couple I found in the US are about the same price I paid at the same spec or slightly more expensive, so with import costs my petty self is still quite happy that I, at least wasn’t ripped-off.
However, this search has raised an interesting issue that I don’t entirely understand. I found one guitar in a US dealer that has a serial number the same as mine but ending in ....0069, with a build date of 4th sept 2019. Mine has the same serial number but ending in ...0048, but my build date is 17th Sept 2019.
How come my serial number is lower than a guitar that claims to have been built 2 weeks BEFORE mine? Do I need to call Dr.Who? Is there some kind of temporal anomaly going on here? I suspect the answer is a little more down to Earth, and hopefully doesn’t include the word “fake” ( I bought mine new from a PRS dealer so I think that’s unlikely). Incidentally all the other hand writing and signatures on the PRS card on both mine and the one on-line are identical, so the cards were clearly written by the same person, and signed by the same people.
Are the serial numbers put on at the end of the build or written on the headstock before the guitars are actually assembled ? That would work because they may just pick a neck to mate with a body and have a bunch of necks laying around already numbered.
Anyone know the real answer here?
However, this search has raised an interesting issue that I don’t entirely understand. I found one guitar in a US dealer that has a serial number the same as mine but ending in ....0069, with a build date of 4th sept 2019. Mine has the same serial number but ending in ...0048, but my build date is 17th Sept 2019.
How come my serial number is lower than a guitar that claims to have been built 2 weeks BEFORE mine? Do I need to call Dr.Who? Is there some kind of temporal anomaly going on here? I suspect the answer is a little more down to Earth, and hopefully doesn’t include the word “fake” ( I bought mine new from a PRS dealer so I think that’s unlikely). Incidentally all the other hand writing and signatures on the PRS card on both mine and the one on-line are identical, so the cards were clearly written by the same person, and signed by the same people.
Are the serial numbers put on at the end of the build or written on the headstock before the guitars are actually assembled ? That would work because they may just pick a neck to mate with a body and have a bunch of necks laying around already numbered.
Anyone know the real answer here?