The Steady
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This question revolves around two S2 Standard 24s that I own/owned. I briefly owned a used 2018 numbered model but moved on from it due to some wear issues and replaced it with a 2020 numbered model at the end of 2021 from a reputable dealer.
However, the 2020 model I have features uncovered pickups, which I assumed are holdover 85/15 S in contrast to the covered 58/15 S version that is spec for 2020 and 2021. Figuring this was just some overlap wherein serial number and model year did not align somehow and knowing I liked the 85/15 S of the 2018 I was fine with it. The big HOWEVER is that these don't sound like the pickups from the 2018 guitar at all.
At what point during a calendar year does the factory switch production to match new model year spec changes?
Is it at all possible that these pickups are an uncovered 58/15 S somehow? Or is there that much variance in the guitars year to year, guitar to guitar, that this 2020 guitar sounds markedly unlike the 2018 of the same model? (And unlike the 85/15 S in the 2018 S2 Standard 22 I also own?)
However, the 2020 model I have features uncovered pickups, which I assumed are holdover 85/15 S in contrast to the covered 58/15 S version that is spec for 2020 and 2021. Figuring this was just some overlap wherein serial number and model year did not align somehow and knowing I liked the 85/15 S of the 2018 I was fine with it. The big HOWEVER is that these don't sound like the pickups from the 2018 guitar at all.
At what point during a calendar year does the factory switch production to match new model year spec changes?
Is it at all possible that these pickups are an uncovered 58/15 S somehow? Or is there that much variance in the guitars year to year, guitar to guitar, that this 2020 guitar sounds markedly unlike the 2018 of the same model? (And unlike the 85/15 S in the 2018 S2 Standard 22 I also own?)