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Vintage Hagstroms

#62
Thanks so much for being such a great resource! This Swede Bass has a warm natural type finish, not sure what it's called. The serial number on the switchplate is 53 914140. Thanks again! Rick
 

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#64
nyctigerintx said:
Thanks so much for being such a great resource! This Swede Bass has a warm natural type finish, not sure what it's called. The serial number on the switchplate is 53 914140. Thanks again! Rick
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Your Swede bass was made in 1974.

It was the 140th Swede bass made in production run # 914 which produced 180 Swede basses.

Your bass appears to have a natural finish from what I can see of it in your photo. You could buy the Swede bass in Cherry, Black or Natural finish.

Hope this helps. Enjoy your bass.

TD
 
#65
Thornton Davis said:
In a nutshell no.

But I'll tell you how the Hagstrom serial numbering system works. The first 3 represent the production run number. the last 3-4 digits is the sequence in numerical order of where the instrument was made in the production run.

For example, 701464 = production run #701
Instrument is the 464th one made in that run.

If you happen to have a copy of The Hagstrom Blue Book, then you can look up production run #701 and see that it was a run of Hagstrom II-B basses with a total of 998 being made in that particular run in 1967.

Yes, I happen to own a copy of this booklet. I've owned it for a number of years.

Got a Hag and want to know more about it? Post your serial number and i'll tell you when your Hag was made. BTW, In 1973 all Hagstrom instruments had the prefix number 53 added to the beginning of the serial number of the instrument.


TD

My Hagstrom bass collection,

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Thorton,
732706 serial number on my dad's guitar (no Bass sorry :crying: but you do have 1 nice collection ) but if you could look my number up also , i think i have it narrowed down to a 67 to 68 viking ll deluxe sunburst in color. Its laid in its case for years and i picked it up again and been playing it in church again which is special to me cause thats why he got it for me new in the late 60's. It is in sweet condition and sound is sweet to the ears, funny thing is our pastor just luved the sound of it he purchased a new viking cherry burst oh is it sweet. Hope to hear from you with that info.
Mike from Pa.
 
#66
miwade2001 said:
Thorton,
732706 serial number on my dad's guitar (no Bass sorry :crying: but you do have 1 nice collection ) but if you could look my number up also , i think i have it narrowed down to a 67 to 68 viking ll deluxe sunburst in color. Its laid in its case for years and i picked it up again and been playing it in church again which is special to me cause thats why he got it for me new in the late 60's. It is in sweet condition and sound is sweet to the ears, funny thing is our pastor just luved the sound of it he purchased a new viking cherry burst oh is it sweet. Hope to hear from you with that info.
Mike from Pa.
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Mike, your guitar is indeed a Viking II. It was built in production run # 732. That production run started in 1967 and finished in 1968. Your guitar was the 706th one made in that run. There were a total of 1000 of them made in run 732.

Seeing that your guitar was made towards the 3/4 mark of the run, it's safe to assume it was made in 1968. But that's only a guess on my part.

Enjoy.

TD
 
#67
Thornton Davis said:
Mike, your guitar is indeed a Viking II. It was built in production run # 732. That production run started in 1967 and finished in 1968. Your guitar was the 706th one made in that run. There were a total of 1000 of them made in run 732.

Seeing that your guitar was made towards the 3/4 mark of the run, it's safe to assume it was made in 1968. But that's only a guess on my part.

Enjoy.

Thanks Thorton ,
Had another gentleman tell me and surfing a site said the same thing , in 1968 Elvis madee a comeback concert and the guitar he was plying was , hence a 68 hagstrom viking II cherry serial number 732240 .... eerie ah just neat thing to know but ah mine is priceless to me :bassist:so hey once again awesome collection and thanks for the info .
Mike
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#68
I was in a hotel room channel surfing and came across a show where Elvis was jamming with a couple of other guys in the middle of a room full of about 100 people. Looked like a medium-size conference room in a hotel. Looked like about 1968, he was still in leather, and looked to be around 35 or so.

What struck me was that Elvis was a good guitar player! I always figured his guitar was a prop, but he was cranking out smokin' blues riffs. On a Hag, of course...

This was not a concert, more of an impromptu jam.
 
#69
bishikawa said:
I was in a hotel room channel surfing and came across a show where Elvis was jamming with a couple of other guys in the middle of a room full of about 100 people. Looked like a medium-size conference room in a hotel. Looked like about 1968, he was still in leather, and looked to be around 35 or so.

What struck me was that Elvis was a good guitar player! I always figured his guitar was a prop, but he was cranking out smokin' blues riffs. On a Hag, of course...

This was not a concert, more of an impromptu jam.
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That was his big return show,Very cool. There was some real band interaction going on there. I saw thatin the late '60s.It's my favorite Elvis moment. Yeah he was a real player originally, I guess he just bought his own hype, aand went for the "look" take notes it can happen.
 
#72
Hello Thornton, I just stumbled in here via google after buying an old Hagstrom III Guitar (no bass, sorry. I wish I could find an affordable one in Germany. Not easy though). If you have a minute, I'd love to know which year it was made in. It is the 19th guitar in batch 773. Thank you very much in advance!

I'd post a picture, but I haven't even got around to cleaning it properly yet.
 
#74
espy said:
Hello Thornton, I just stumbled in here via google after buying an old Hagstrom III Guitar (no bass, sorry. I wish I could find an affordable one in Germany. Not easy though). If you have a minute, I'd love to know which year it was made in. It is the 19th guitar in batch 773. Thank you very much in advance!

I'd post a picture, but I haven't even got around to cleaning it properly yet.
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espy,

Production run number 773 produced 125 Hagstrom III's. The run started in 1969 and concluded in 1970. Seeing your guitar was the 19th one made in that run, it's safe to assume it was made in 1969.

Enjoy.

TD
 
#77
anthonyg said:
Hi thornton. I have a single pickup Hag serial number 853101. I haven't seen any photos of these and would appreciate your help with an ID.

Anthony
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Anthony, Your Hagstrom is a very special H-1-B. It was made in 1972 in production run 853. Your bass was the 101st bass made in that run which produced 200 of them.

Hagstrom only made 652 of these during 4 production runs. They were made specifically for the Canadian marketplace for ARC Sound who were Hagstrom's Canadian (Toronto based) distributor. Most of them were sold in Canada as beginner or entry level basses. When the final run # 865 was finished, ARC were close to going out of business and couldn't come up with the money to purchase all of them from Hagstrom, so the last 50 - 75 were sold to UK and Scandanavian dealers.

I've personally owned three of these. If you go back a couple of pages in this thread, you'll see a photo of some of my Hagstrom collection. The bass on the far left was the third H-1-B I owned. I'd like to get another one.

I hope you'll post a couple of photos of your bass here in this thread.

Enjoy your bass.

TD
 
#80
bishikawa said:
I was in a hotel room channel surfing and came across a show where Elvis was jamming with a couple of other guys in the middle of a room full of about 100 people. Looked like a medium-size conference room in a hotel. Looked like about 1968, he was still in leather, and looked to be around 35 or so.

What struck me was that Elvis was a good guitar player! I always figured his guitar was a prop, but he was cranking out smokin' blues riffs. On a Hag, of course...

This was not a concert, more of an impromptu jam.
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That was the '68 comeback special – a GREAT show, now available on DVD.

http://www.amazon.com/68-Comeback-S...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1218320450&sr=1-1
 
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