Hello Valley Arts Enthusiast, I can shed some light on the very early Valley Arts Guitar serial numbers, I ordered mine in October of 1983 and received it in January of 1984. The serial number on my Valley Arts is VA 0107. Mike McGuire was the builder. Torgovo razvlekateljnij centr dwg. Mike sent me a picture of an early Valley Arts Guitar he was building for Steve Lukather right around the same time as mine was being built. The serial number on Steve’s guitar was VA 0102. As I was looking at the picture Steves guitar, and was comparing it to mine, I noticed a small detail which can help you in establishing the authenticity of the guitars that Mike built: 1. The serial number on the “back of the head stock” is engraved directly into the wood.
No plates or stickers. Just carved directly into the wood. It is carved as follows: VA 0107 No hyphens 2.
The serial number as engraved on the “metal plate” where the neck attaches to the body is simply #0107. The metal plate excludes the letters “VA.” The # sign then the number- #0107.
This information should clear up any questions about the Valley Arts serial numbers and establish the dates of some of the early guitars. I don’t have any information on the guitars that might exist below VA 0102. Other characteristics of Mike’s guitars that may help establish authenticity are as follows: The guitar itself is one piece quilted maple, not laminated, just one solid piece of quilted maple. The neck is made of a single piece of birds eye maple.
The fretboard is ebony. The fret wire is Dunlop 6100 Jumbo Wire, which was what Mike recommended at the time.
The serial number as engraved on the “metal plate” where the neck attaches to the body is simply #0107. The metal plate excludes the letters “VA.” The # sign then the number- #0107. This information should clear up any questions about the Valley Arts serial numbers and establish the dates of some of the early guitars. Note #2: Guitars with no serial number were produced at many different times. Samick branded models did not start using serials until around 1987. Samick branded models did not start using serials until around 1987.
Electronic set ups were another unique characteristic of of Mikes guitars. Prior to the period of Mikes use of EMG pickups, he pioneered some wiring setups and pickup combinations (Mostly Seymour Duncans) from which he derived some of his classic sounds from that time period. These included Larry Carltons hit Sleepwalk, and many other of the famous Southern California Jazz/Rock sounds of the late 70’s to the mid 80’s. Gungsuhche normal font free download.
The wiring techniques that Mike created during those early days included pickup coil splitting and pickups combinations that he took with him when he became head of the Gibson custom shop. I would use these specs and characteristics to help verify that you have an authentic Mike McGuire built Valley Arts Guitar.
The pictures of some of his other builds given to me by Mike at the time, along with comparison to my Valley Arts.
Craigbeal, cdef is correct, it is a Samick B130NS, made in Korea in August 2001. The five piece lamenated neck and neck to body connection style were also very popular with Ibanez basses made both in Japan and later in Indonesia.
This body shape was adopted by Greg Bennett, who was contracted with Samick to design both electric and acoustic instruments, at about the time this bass was manufactured. Bennett produced four models under the Corsair line, CR-1 through CR-4, initiatelly made in Korea and then later in Indonesia. Earlier CR-1s were in a P-Bass configuration. The mid-range CR-2s and CR-3s, as well as the top-of-the-line CR-4s were, for the most part, PJ configurations.
I believe these were all 34' scale basses. However, Bennett also designed and Samick produced an Indonesian made CR-1 mini Travel/Child's version of this instrument. Craig, if you ever decide to sell this one. Feel free to contact me via TalkBass. I'd Definitely be interested in buying it.