90's S100 serial number question

[koaguilds]

Hello all!

I just bought a mint condition cherry S100 from the late 90's but I can't find it's number range on the charts I've seen. Does anybody know the year? Thanks. #FB001065

 

[mushroom]

That looks to be in fantastic condition.
I hope it plays as good as it looks.
Congratulations.

 

[koaguilds]

Thank you, it definitely plays great with nice low action and the bridge is nowhere near bottomed out. Hans told me it's a 1999. I bought it from Fender's senior vice president of global marketing out at the headquarters in Arizona. He got it from an employee sale and said it had been sitting in the warehouse new in the case. I have the second one made of the 90's reissues so it would be great if this was one of the last.

 

[mushroom]

Nice.
I’m jealous

 

[SFIV1967]

Great find! Congratulations! With SH1 in the neck and SH4 at the bridge. The S-100 was still offered in the year 2000 catalog, so there seem to be more out there after that one. I think our member Hammer used to have #1134 from year 2000 in the past.
Ralf

 

[koaguilds]

Great find! Congratulations! With SH1 in the neck and SH4 at the bridge. The S-100 was still offered in the year 2000 catalog, so there seem to be more out there after that one. I think our member Hammer used to have #1134 from year 2000 in the past.
Ralf

Thank you and thanks for that information. I had been wondering if they made them later than '99.

 

[koaguilds]

The frets are definitely taller on the '99 compared to the '93. They seem about medium jumbo as on my 2011 Gibson SG Standard. The neck is also a little wider and deeper than the '93.

Does anybody know if they made the later 90's reissue version with the gotoh bridge in green? I thought I saw the color offered in a later 90's catalog but not sure.

 

[SFIV1967]

Does anybody know if they made the later 90's reissue version with the gotoh bridge in green? I thought I saw the color offered in a later 90's catalog but not sure.

At least the 1997 to 2000 catalogs show no green:



The only green one I remember is Hammer's 1994 one, but that still has the Müller bridge:

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Ralf

 

[koaguilds]

My '93 FB000002

My '99 FB001065

 

[GGJaguar]

My '93 FB000002
My '99 FB001065

Holy mackerel, that's an awesome pair of S-100s!!

 

[mushroom]

Yeah that’s pretty impressive.

 

[Los Angeles]

I owned a cherry S-100 that I bought in late 98/early 99. could have been that very one.

 

[koaguilds]

This cherry one was bought new by Fender's senior vice president of global marketing Rich Mcdonald at an employee sale over at Fender's corp. headquarters in Scottsdale,Arizona. How it got from Westerly to that warehouse is unknown.

 

[fronobulax]

This cherry one was bought new by Fender's senior vice president of global marketing Rich Mcdonald at an employee sale over at Fender's corp. headquarters in Scottsdale,Arizona. How it got from Westerly to that warehouse is unknown.

How and why are the unanswered questions but we have seen several instruments that were made in Westerly and ended up in the hands of FMIC execs and employees at HQ.

 

[Hammer]

Great find! Congratulations! With SH1 in the neck and SH4 at the bridge. The S-100 was still offered in the year 2000 catalog, so there seem to be more out there after that one. I think our member Hammer used to have #1134 from year 2000 in the past.
Ralf

You are correct, sir! Just sold it a few months ago. Never got play time...didn't jive with the neck.

 

[SFIV1967]

How and why are the unanswered questions...

I think it's pretty simple and nothing secret. FMICs headquarters were responsible for marketing, catalogs, trade fairs, vendors and so on. For all those purposes they required instruments from the various FMIC owned brands, so it is only logical that lots of instruments ended up in Scottsdale. We had the same situation when New Hartford was sold, there were long lists of instruments that were liquidated out of Scottsdale.

Ralf

 

[fuzzfarmer]

What is up with this thread? I own, and have had the "'93 FB000002", in my possession, since December 2019.

 

[fuzzfarmer]

 

[fronobulax]

What is up with this thread? I own, and have had the "'93 FB000002", in my possession, since December 2019.

What is most likely is this is another example of Guild inadvertently duplicating serial numbers. We'd need Hans to chime in.

Other benign possibilities include an error in reading which might be clarified by pulling the control cavities and comparing the labels and the headstock.

 

[hansmoust]

What is most likely is this is another example of Guild inadvertently duplicating serial numbers.

No, it's the same guitar.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl