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V + 4, 5 or 6 digits corresponds to 1982-present. Usually, they sport a first letter, then have another letter prefixing the number. Mike McGuire officially retired August 3, 2012.Click here: => /dt?s=YToyOntzOjc6InJlZmVyZXIiO3M6MzA6Imh0dHA6Ly9iYW5kY2FtcC5jb21fZHRfcG9zdGVyLyI7czozOiJrZXkiO3M6MzI6IkVzcCBndWl0YXIgc2VyaWFsIG51bWJlciBkZWNvZGVyIjt9 Al Carness managed the store Mike McGuire became operations manager of the Gibson Custom division, which oversees the Valley Arts line of guitars. In late 2002 Valley Arts reopened as a music store, repair facility and small manufacturer specializing in custom guitars in downtown Nashville.
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Through the 1990s Gibson was moving to expand and diversify its brands, and by the late 1990s they had decided to acquire the 'Valley Arts' name as an outgrowth of the Gibson Custom Shop. McGuire and Carness became dissatisfied with their positions in the company and the quality of the guitars manufactured by Samick, and by 1993 they had moved to positions at Gibson. One year after, Samick bought the whole company. In an attempt to expand their business, in 1992 they sold half of Valley Arts to the Korean guitar manufacturer Samick. Underinsured, McGuire and Carness found it necessary to sell the store and concentrate on the manufacturing side of the business. In late 1990 the store was destroyed by fire. 'Signature' Valley Arts features often included highly figured wood grain on the front, translucent colored finishes, gold hardware, Floyd Rose locking tremolos, EMG and Seymour Duncan humbucking pickups. Most of their guitars had a radical styling similar to that of a superstrat others were modified versions of Fender's popular designs, the Stratocaster and the Telecaster.
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They began building custom guitars from scratch in 1977, and by 1983 demand for these guitars had increased to the point of requiring a separate manufacturing facility. Partners in a music store and repair shop, their repairs and customizations gained the attention of Los Angeles studio musicians and jazz guitarists such as Lee Ritenour, Steve Lukather, Tommy Tedesco and Larry Carlton. Mike McGuire and Al Carness founded the company in the mid-1970s in North Hollywood, California, a district of Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley the name 'Valley Arts' is a reference to the firm's original location. The company was taken over by Samick in mid-1993, and sold to Gibson in 2002, which used the brand 'Valley Arts' to name guitar stores. was an American electric guitar manufacturer. The system is largely the same as the 8 digit system used before, however the 6th digit now represents the batch number. In July 2005 Gibson introduced a 9 digit serial number system. £1,599 shipped anywhere within mainland UK.
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#Samick guitar serial number decoder pro#
Please do not confuse or compare this guitar to the production Standard Pro line built later in Canada by Godin - they are fine guitars but are a different thing clearly to this early Standard Pro which appears to meet the intent of keeping the Custom Pro specs but producing a less-expensive version through the use of plain ash & maple and a Schaller Tremolo. Hardware is very well preserved considering age, minor tarnishing to trem E & A string fine-tuners, frets in excellent shape with plenty of life left - please review the attached photos.īackground: This guitar is confirmed by Martin Miranda of Valley Arts, to be one of approximately 20 such early Pre-Production versions of the proposed Standard Pro line and was built alongside the Custom Pro guitars by the same craftsmen at the Vose Street facility - the difference appears to be limited to the neck using plain maple/rosewood instead of the Custom Pro's birds-eye maple/ebony combination and also the Schaller-VA branded Floyd Rose Tremolo instead of the Custom Pro's Kahler Floyd Rose - in all other aspects from body wood, finish, hardware & electronics used, this compares favourably to my Lukather Custom Pro. Specs: 1989 built in the original Valley Arts Vose Street Facility - Serial Number: VA 930008 Swamp ash body in transparent red, maple neck with Rosewood fretboard, 22-frets, chrome hardware - Valley Arts Floyd Rose tremelo, locking nut & tuners, replacement white pearloid backplate and scratchplate, EMG SA/SA/89 pickups, chrome volume & tone controls, 5-way switch includes hardshell case & original white backplate and scratchplate.Ĭondition: In excellent overall used condition, showing minor markings consistent with being played since manufacture in 1989 - body has minor surface scratching to front/rear, 4 minor dents to rear through surface finish.