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#17,523
Akami said:
I was thinking the Bartolini's, Sperzels, headstock finish, printed name on body and screw down rear cover. Is there more?
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The headstock finish certainly is an earlier feature, but runs across a few iterations as do the sperzels. Bartolini's lasted through post-fire era of about 2000.

Printed name on the body is certainly a big tip-off. The very first run had this. After that...it was moved to the backplate (note that mine is plain black while others of this era have a logo/signature.

steve_rolfeca said:
Am I correct in thinking that parallel pickups means pre-fire?
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There are slanted pickups pre-fire as well. The first run are either all straight or mostly straight. The pickups on this one were actually not the size that Sheldon thought they'd be when we worked towards a set of replacements. So even in the first run, the sizes may have differed. The Barts that are shown are 4-string width not 5 string like many of the early ones.

There's another glaring difference that no one has spied yet.

A couple other things different from later voodoos include: Jumbo frets and the "speedo bars" are a bit different in size/shape that later layouts.
 
#17,525
If you check out this Dingwall forum thread from a ways back, you'll see some nice pictures of Dingwall 001. It went in for repairs and got a pickguard.

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You'll note it also has the decal...and you'll see that Sheldon comments that angled pickups began in 1994. Suggesting that... ;)
 
#17,528
BurningSkies said:
The headstock finish certainly is an earlier feature, but runs across a few iterations as do the sperzels. Bartolini's lasted through post-fire era of about 2000.

Printed name on the body is certainly a big tip-off. The very first run had this. After that...it was moved to the backplate (note that mine is plain black while others of this era have a logo/signature.



There are slanted pickups pre-fire as well. The first run are either all straight or mostly straight. The pickups on this one were actually not the size that Sheldon thought they'd be when we worked towards a set of replacements. So even in the first run, the sizes may have differed. The Barts that are shown are 4-string width not 5 string like many of the early ones.

There's another glaring difference that no one has spied yet.

A couple other things different from later voodoos include: Jumbo frets and the "speedo bars" are a bit different in size/shape that later layouts.
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The body shape?
 
#17,532
Here's a 94...
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#17,534
groovaholic said:
The rear bolts for the bridge base-plate are absent.
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Yep. You got it. Buffalo Bob's 94 Voodoo had slanted pickups but no rear bridge mount.

So the timeline looks like:

That Voodoo 001 has the straight pickups, front logo, etc. It has the earlier side insert markers.
My Voodoo has front logo, straight pickups but front insert markers.
Next step would be to angle the pickups, but not rear mount bridge bolts, and the round Dingwall decal on the plate (Bob's old Prima).
by the end of 94 they'd started mounting the bridge through the body. By 95/96 there was a different plate decal that included Sheldon's signature.
 
#17,538
lowphatbass said:
Those are rivets for the battery box, the picture of this one looks like screws though, mine was riveted on. No rear bridge screws on my bass btw.
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Yep...Mine was broken when it showed up, but believe it or not, current replacements are identical. Here's me doing some work in mine:
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#17,539
lowphatbass said:
Those are rivets for the battery box, the picture of this one looks like screws though, mine was riveted on. No rear bridge screws on my bass btw.
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Yep. There's a handful that have angled pickups but frontmount plates. The change to the pickups was first, then the change to the mounting.
 

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