Aria Made In Japan Serial Numbers
Hello all, I recently purchased a MIK Sunburst Archtop guitar off of craigslist. There is a small sticker on the back of the head under 'Made in Korea' with a serial number (9802407) printed below, but the serial number does not seem to follow the numbering system I have seen posted here and other places. I am assuming that they utilized a different numbering system for the Korean guitars than the American but I have not been able to find out anything confirming that. Chemstation free download full.
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Does anybody here know more about this? I was mainly just curious to find out how old the guitar is. Thanks, Kurt ---------------------------------UPDATE 6/7------------------------------ Thanks for the responses! Sounds like there is not much to learn from this serial number, whether it is a meaningless number from Hamer or some stocking/inventory number from elsewhere.
Sorry to the curious, myself included, but I think I will leave the sticker on. Guitar plays great and is really in fantastic condition, I think it had just been sitting around in storage for a while because there was basically no fret wear and the guy who sold it to me was a musician who came across it but said he didn't play guitar. Some thoughts for anyone else who comes across this and is curious: I have seen a couple other Hamer imports on CL(Bay Area) with this same type of sticker, which supports that it may have came on the guitar originally.
That doesn't mean Hamer put it on as it could have come from the original distributor or shop that sold the Hamer new. My guitar had unbranded tuners, bridge. Duncan Design PUPs If I ever change my mind and take off the sticker I will update this post!! Dean says the same thing about it's korean made guitars. The numbers are meaningless in dating them to us.
They were for the company making them. If you had access to the original makers idea for the numbering it might be possible. I have never heard what company made these.
My serial number on my korean made Hamers were all imprinted. Knowing when they switched would help. Also the Hamer Slammer Series were imported before the plain Hamer labelled headstocks.
What does the front of that headstock look like? Dean says the same thing about it's korean made guitars. The numbers are meaningless in dating them to us. They were for the company making them.
If you had access to the original makers idea for the numbering it might be possible. I have never heard what company made these. My serial number on my korean made Hamers were all imprinted.
Knowing when they switched would help. Also the Hamer Slammer Series were imported before the plain Hamer labelled headstocks. What does the front of that headstock look like? Mine is of the plain Hamer label variety. It doesn't feel like there is a serial number imprinted on the wood under the sticker, and there is no other serial number to be found.
I can take better pictures of the guitar and post if there's some interest. Many of them in the late 90s-early 2000s were stamped 'USED' and sold at a discount or through liquidators. I've seen some of those with stickers obscuring the 'USED' markings, but I don't seem to recall that any of those stickers indicated a serial number, since the stamp usually obliterated the original serial. Epiphone used to do that a lot, too.even on their Japan-made 'Elite'/Elitist' models, back about 10 years ago, give or take a couple of years. That's when I saw that, anyway. AFAIK, the 'true' S/Ns on imported Hamers (Korean ones anyway) were normally on a decal or transfer, and placed UNDER the clearcoat finish, if it wasn't a matte finish to begin with.just like the 'Made In Korea' part in the OP's photo, and just like in scottcald's photo. I'm wary of ANY imported guitar that has a S/N put on it with a paper sticker OVER the finish, just because.
There might not be anything wrong with the guitar, but still. The only exception to that rule (i.e., using the paper S/N sticker) that I can think of were on old Korean-made Danelectros from the 2000s, because that's how they were originally sold as new.
I'm selling a beautiful Aria classical guitar. I've listed the features below: • Rosewood back and sides.
• Tight grain Cedar top. • Multi-ply purfling around the top, sides and back with Rosewood binding. • Mosaic, Persian, Classic wood inlaid Rosette with matching purfling and inlay on headstock and bridge tie-block. • Rosewood peghead overlay with headstock stripe. • JAPAN is stamped on the headstock. • Rosewood bridge, with purfling and binding.