Weird AS80 serial number help please.

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Author Message   Jazzrat Username: Jazzrat Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Friday, September 07, 2007 - 11:51 pm:    I searched the archives but did not find this particular numbering scheme. 8 numbers...no letter confirmed with a magnifier in strong light. 06099062 Definately Korean but what year. It has wolf ears, tulip heasdstock and potted Super 58's thanks for your help   Mwmeci Username: Mwmeci Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 9:14 am:    Mine appears to be like yours. Serial number 00050049. I thought mine was a year 2000 model. This would make yours a 2006 model but I thought they were discontinued by then.   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 1:00 pm:    Uhuh, C6099062 would mean: Cort 1996 September production number 9062 AS80 production had already stopped in 2001. I say the first character is a C, NOT a 0. Then your guitar is the evidence, that there were already TULIP headstocks and WOLF EARS AS80's made in September 1996. Which would be of course interesting to know. There was of course a moment that all these leftover Mickey Mouse bodies from the Samick era had been assembled. It would have been VERY coincidental when this moment had arrived on January 1st, 2007. And now we know almost sure that this was indeed NOT the case. BTW, was the number handwritten or printed? Ginger   Jazzrat Username: Jazzrat Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 6:28 pm:    It would make more sense if the first figure was a C but I magnified it a bunch thinking it was a C and the ink had smudged into an 0. I saw nothing wierd. For all the world it looks like an O in comparison to the other 0's in the serial number. It is printed rather than handwritten. The previous owner who was not the original owner was told it was a 2000. thanks   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 2:17 pm:    If it is indeed from 2006 and looks like the one on page 41 of THIS (2006) catalogue, http://www.t3-kundenserver.de/htmlpages/redasys/_c ore/databases/t_meinl-uploads/2006_gesamt-all.pdf then it is an ARTCORE AS83 not ARTSTAR AS80. We would be talking about a Chinese guitar then. Is the word ARTSTAR somewhere visible on the label? Ginger   Jazzrat Username: Jazzrat Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 5:01 pm:    Definately Artstar. On the headstock and sticker. This is a mystery I tell ya.   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 12:17 am:    Is the second digit definitely a 6? Is it not a 0? Is it possible to make a good picture of the label and upload it to ICW forum? If it's too big, you could perhaps mail it to Johns or one of the members, who can process the file until it's small enough to post it on the forum. BTW Rat, did you see what the AS120 with the after-market cream pickup surrounds and fake label went for? I bet that's actually a 97er. It's the same as mine except for the rings and the label of course. And I swapped the pickguard for a bound tortoise one, which makes it even more beautiful. Ginger   Jazzrat Username: Jazzrat Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 12:29 am:    Well here is a picture. Thanks http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/jazzrat/as8 0sticker003.jpg   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 10:28 am:    It looks like they first forgot one zero, so it was: C099062, then the numberer thought, sh.. I forgot a ZERO. Between the first 0 and the first 9 was not enough space for another 0, so he stamped it in front of the C. If you compare the two sixes, you see that the curves are totally different. So the first one is a C. So now it reads: 0C099062 and should have been: C0099062. I say this guitar is from September 2000. Numbering was never the strongest point in the Cort factory. It took years to decipher the handwritten one in my AS120. Ginger   Jazzrat Username: Jazzrat Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 10:42 am:    Thanks for taking the time to help me figure this out. That sounds like a logical scenario. Also given that the previous owner thought it was a 2000...we'll just call it a 2000 and get on with our lives. Thanks again   Johns Username: Johns Registered: 2-2001 Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 3:36 pm:    Jazzrat: The AS80 was available in the US market in 2000. With the tulip shaped headstock, that would be the most likely year of manufacture.   Jazzrat Username: Jazzrat Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 4:15 pm:    Thanks Johns

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