4/9/2021 0 Comments Regal Guitar Serial Numbers
I bought my 33H right out of the Elderly catalog, when it was kind of a cheap newspaper catalog bound with a couple of staples.Some codes ive seen say the last 2 are year digits, but the guy i bought it from said he bought it new in the 80s.
Could maybe fit if body code could be first character a 75 (d5) But then there are too many number characters. Doesnt fit because the body type character is first (D style) and because the year would be 96, outside of the 88-94 code. Doesnt fit because the first 2 arent letters, there is a letter then a number. This one will be easy if its a 96 model, Gibson bought OMI in about 93-94. OMI guitars the last letter was either a Dwood, Bmetal, HHounddog, or Psolid peghead. So yours is a D5 series, the 73rd one made for that year of 1996. He said it was stolen and the guy gave it back to him cuz he felt guilty, but maybe if it is a 96 then the guy who stole it swapped his with a different one. Whatever. Its still a sweet guitar and was got at a great price. ![]() Looks like yours has the biscuit bridge The model 90 came in both wood and chrome bell brass. By 1993 Dobro was actually owned by Gibson and might have been made in Nashville and not California. ![]() Regal Guitar S Serial Numbers Are AI know that older Dobro serial numbers are a bit of a can of worms to find anything out about them. Most traditional dobros were spider bridge and had 12 frets but they did make a few biscuits and 14 fretters. Also most dobros were woodies but again, they built a few metal bodies. We tend to thing of National and NRP as the manufacturer of metal bodies biscuits but obviously yours is the exception. There are a couple of resonator specific discussion forums - here is one.
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