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Location: northern virginia | Quick question for those in the know - what was the time period for the silver foil labels? As on a 1621 for example. Any thoughts or opinions would be most appreciated. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Ah yes... my favorite dead horse is up for another beating.
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I think the foil went away in the mid to late '70s. But lets wait for Moody to chime in. He knows everything.
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I always thought the foil labels were very classy and looked good against the stark, black backround of the bowl. |
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Location: Utah | The only paper label that looks more than commercial is the Patriot.
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Location: northern virginia | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Ah yes... my favorite dead horse is up for another beating.
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I think the foil went away in the mid to late '70s. But lets wait for Moody to chime in. He knows everything.
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I always thought the foil labels were very classy and looked good against the stark, black backround of the bowl. thanks - i just now went to inspect a silver foil 1621 found on craigslist..she was mint except for the dire need of a neck reset, so i sadly had to decline the buy |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Ah yes... my favorite dead horse is up for another beating. We could always talk about "String Tubes". :D |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | '78 - '79 |
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Location: Scotland | the demise of the foil labels was gradual and coincided with the introduction of the K-Bar, 2-piece necks on Balladeers and Custom Balladeers and phasing out of cloth bowls. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
the demise of the foil labels was gradual and coincided with the introduction of the K-Bar, 2-piece necks on Balladeers and Custom Balladeers and phasing out of cloth bowls. Actually, it was a couple of years before that. I've got a Legend that was originally built in '78. It had a cloth bowl, standard truss rod and the blue and white label. |
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Location: Scotland | A couple of years before when? I didn't specify a date, just a bunch of design features that were happening around the time the foil labels disappeared. The real date would be exactly when they ran out of them, and the blue labels would have been designed and ready to go before then, so trying to pinpoint it is pointless and probably impossible. |
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Location: SoCal | A couple of years before the design features were phased in. I always thought that the k-bar,and A bracing and the 2 piece neck for the less expensive models came in about 1980. The foil label was gone at least 2 years before that.
You're right in that they probably used the foil labels until they were gone and dating the change is impossible. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | after 76 and before 1980 |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by an4340:
after 76 and before 1980 We can tighten that up even more. After 76 and before 79.
Any other questions we can screw up? |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | I've two gutars from 1978: #137555 1624-4 Country- Artist w/ blue-white label and #131389 1615-4 Pacemaker w/ foil label.
The time sheet says #126001-157000 is Apr.-Dec. 1978
So I think they changed in May or June 1978.
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when did the silver foil labels stop?