Sep 20, 2009 1981 Electra Phoenix X140N. The serial number will tell. I have been doing research on serial numbers and I suspect import guitars that. Right off, the trademark switched to Electra/Phoenix. Then, in 1984. Blue Book of Electric Guitar Values Online Subscription.

It’s rare for anybody of modest means to be able to say “I have (whatever useless item) and nobody else does,” but here you go: I do not believe anybody else in the world has as many 1982 Electra SLM 60th Anniversary Editions as I do. I own eight in total; three are duplicates of the ones you see here.

All of these guitars were built by Matsumoku in Japan in the second half of 1981. How many different 50th Anniversary models are there? There are two I know I don’t have — the four-string bass models with single and double pickups.

I’ve missed a deal on both in the past and am still looking. Is that all there were? It’s possible that nobody knows, and therein hangs a tale of sorts. As an Electra collector, you have to understand that you’ll never catch them all. I have about sixty-three Electra guitars, with very few duplicates, but I’m not the biggest collector out there.

There’s a guy with about 110 different ones. He doesn’t have them all.

The two of us together don’t have them all. Swf To Screensaver Scout Keygen Generator more. There are well over a hundred different models of which we are aware as a collectors’ community, and there are multiple finish variants, and so on, and so forth. The SLM Anniversary guitars were variants of the standard Electra Phoenix range, painted sparkly colors and treated to all possible upgrades including solid “rock maple” bodies that make these bolt-neck Strat-a-likes as heavy as pancake Lesters. Nobody seems to know how many different ones were made, and certainly nobody knows which colors were used on which ones. The purple one you see above was commonly held to not even exist until a few years ago when somebody found one of them.

I bought it recently. Nobody’s seen another one. Sometimes the headstocks were painted, sometimes not. And the brass plates, as seen above, corroded to the point that they more often looked like this: Electra collecting is a frustrating pastime. There are very few records. There were two different companies selling the brand, PCM and SLM, owned by two brothers who eventually drifted apart.