Takamine guitars are made at the foot of the Takamine mountain in Sakashita in Japan; the company has been producing guitars for over 40 years. Working out the date of your Takamine guitar is easy for most models, and with the aid of a serial number you can usually pinpoint the age of your guitar down to the precise day on which it was made.
Copy the serial number down onto a piece of paper. You can run the serial number through the Takamine dating engine on Guitar Dating (see “Resources”), but it isn’t necessary because the date is easy to extrapolate from the serial number. Note the first two digits of the serial number. This is the year in which your guitar was made. 'Dating Guild Instruments made in Tacoma, Washington after February 2005: FMIC began building Guild guitars in Tacoma, Washington in early 2005. Tacoma made Guild guitars have a serial number consisting of two letters and six digits. As an example, we’ll use a random number: TJ 037 016. This is the Toyota TACOMA VIN decoder. Every Toyota car has a unique identifier code called a VIN. This number contains vital information about the car, such as its manufacturer, year of production, the plant it was produced in, type of engine, model and more.
Tacoma Serial Number Dating. I believe they use an alpha system to denote year. For example G=2006. Tacoma was sold Fall 2004 to Fender. So most E serials should be pre and anything. The serial number, make, model, caliber, type and any other descriptive. If the lost, stolen or missing firearm was recovered, the date. Dating Guild Guitars from GuildGuitars.com The following series of charts contain the most accurate information Guild has available for discerning the date of manufacture of Guild guitars by serial number.
Tacoma M-2 Mandolin – SOLD $ 1,229.00 $ 399.00. Out of stock. The Mandolin Store Inc, 12301 W Bell Rd, Surprise, AZ, 85378, You. Tacoma FAQ: How do I adjust/setup my guitar? We have a saying in this industry. 'When in doubt, take your guitar to a tech.' Tacoma Guitars are factory strung with D’Addario light gauge round wound strings (.012.053). Manufactured dates can be determined from the serial number on the inside of your instrument.
Locate the serial number on your guitar. This will be inside the sound hole, on the interior of the body. The serial number will generally be eight digits long. The serial number can be used to date the guitar on all Takamine guitars other than the G series, which do not have a simple rule that can be used to date them.
Copy the serial number down onto a piece of paper. You can run the serial number through the Takamine dating engine on Guitar Dating (see “Resources”), but it isn’t necessary because the date is easy to extrapolate from the serial number.
Note the first two digits of the serial number. This is the year in which your guitar was made. The Takamine company was only founded in 1962, so any low numbers will be relating to the 21st century as opposed to the 20th.
Read the next two digits. These represent the month in which your guitar was made. “01” in these spots would be indicative of a guitar made in January, and “12” would mean the guitar was made in December.
Tacoma Serial Number Dating
Convert the following two numbers to a date. This is literally the day out of the month that your guitar was made on. The clear structure of the Takamine serial number system makes it easy to work out the exact day your guitar was made on. A guitar with a serial number starting “050108” would have been made on the eighth of January 2005.
Note the final two digits for the maximum amount of precision. This final piece of information tells you the number of your guitar in the manufacturing day. For example, a guitar with a serial number “01081423” would have been the 23rd guitar that was made on the fourteenth of August 2001. This allows you to date your guitar with considerable accuracy; you can assume that lower numbers will have been produced in the morning and higher numbers will have been made in the afternoon.
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Production of the JK50CE began in 1997. The Tacoma JK50C features a Gloss finish, Solid Spruce top, Solid flamed Koa back with laminate Koa sides, Ivoroid bound body, neck, and peghead, Maple inlaid curly Koa peghead overlay, Abalone fingerboard inlays, Rosewood fingerboard and 'Tone Shaped' bridge and Slim neck with low shoulders for comfortable play.
The JK50CE2 has a Tacoma Tone Bar with fixed active preamp with piezo film pickup. The JK50CE4 has a Fishman Prefix Plus Active preamp with volume, notch, low, high, contour, brilliance, frequency and a phase switch paired with a piezo electric film pickup.
These Tacoma Guitars use 'VS' bracing is a radical advance over traditional acoustic guitar bracing. Their 'Tone Shaped' bridge is wide and flat on the bass side, and narrow and peaked on the treble side. Our solid Maple bridge plate is asymmetrical, and placed diagonally to enhance the dispersion patterns of our bridge design. Our matched bridge and bridge plate configuration balances the bass and treble. There are no sharp corners on the front edge of the bridge to concentrate stress on the top.
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Electronics
| Preamp | Fishman Prefix Plus-T preamp |
General
| Finish colors | natural finish |
| Finish effects | satin finish |
| Made in | USA |
| Binding | 6 stripe body binding, herringbone binding |
| Number of strings | 6 strings |
| Scale length | 25.25 inches scale-length |
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Body
| Body back material | koa body back |
| Body shape features | single cutaway |
| Body sides material | koa body sides |
| Body top material | sitka spruce body top |
| Soundhole rosette | abalone rosette |
| Soundhole | round soundhole |
Neck
| Body fret | Neck joins body at 14th fret |
| Headstock inlays or logos | maple headstock inlay/logo |
| Neck material | mahogany neck |
| Neck width | 1.69 inches wide at nut |
| Number of frets | 20 fret |
| Nut | graphite nut |
| Peghead (headstock) | bound headstock |
| Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Hardware
| Bridge | rosewood bridge |
| Hardware color | chrome hardware |
| Tuners | Gotoh tuners |
Fretboard
| Fingerboard inlay material | abalone fingerboard inlay material |
| Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
Prices (3)
| Date | Price | Condition | Name | Comments |
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| 1998 | $2000 | new | ||
| 2014 | $780.00 | excellent | chris | Had one when they came out, and loved it. Unfortunately, I left it on a rocking chair and my two year old rocked it off and onto the floor snapping off the headstock. Had two professional luthiers try to reattach it, but is just so thin it's hard to get right. That's also part of why I liked it. The guitar is easy to play. I found the one I have now just this year, and it was perfect. The owner even loosened the strings every time after playing so it is like new. Both of my Tacoma's never had the Tacomaitis you hear about. Not even a hint of the lacquer lifting on mine. Maybe just lucky. Has the solid koa back, and koa veneered sides, and sounds great. If you can't afford a Taylor or Martin, and can find a decent Tacoma you'll be happy. |
| 2003 | $1400 | excellent | William Esborn | This instrument is in mint condition since it was received as a replacement for a 1990s model whose Koa sides had cracked. But the time is was replaced I was playing another instrument and rarely played at all the JK50C. It is serial number G 008 014 0 Thus according to Tacoma's serial codes was made on January 8th of 2003 the 14th guitar of the day and the 0 indicates it has never been serviced. The hard case has wear since it was part of the original purchase but the instrument has none as the replacement. |
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