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1980 Aria Pro II SB-600 *Further price reduction!! NOW £300*
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For sale is my very first bass, a classic 1981 Aria Pro II model!

Bass still plays perfectly and is a lovely instrument but there are obviously some dings and scratches given that it has spent its life being played (nothing major though)

Willing to post but as I am up in Northern Scotland then obviously the cost of this would have to be taken into consideration.

Will include a hard case with the purchase to ensure safe delivery.

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WAS ASKING FOR £500 WILL NOW TAKE [b]£300[/b]

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A couple of points...

Set neck = SB-600, the 700s had through necks.

1981 is the year that the Batwing headstock changed to the 'open book' style. There's a chap over on the Matsumoku forum that's been looking into the whole dating-by-serial-number malarkey & has come up with an interesting take on the matter. In a nutshell it's that the old dictum of First digit = Year of Manufacture is wrong for earlier instruments, and that there's a bit more info contained in the number than previously thought.

For e.g., my Batwing SB-900 is S/N 059104. I assumed that it was a 1980 build. Under the new theory it translates as May (05) 1979 (9) Production No. (104).
So it **could** be that your SB is a tad older than you think. If it [u]is[/u] from 1981 it might help in narrowing down the date that the headstock design changed.

The thread, if you're interested, is here: [url="http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11173"]http://www.matsumoku...hp?f=11&t=11173[/url]

I totally understand if you don't want to post the full S/N, but if you could reveal the first three or four digits (& how many in total) it could be a real help to us geeks :D

Lovely bass & good luck with the sale.

Pete.

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If I read the runes correctly, that makes it No. 097 of August 1980. I doubt very much that it was the 97th SB-600, but more likely the 97th instrument to get stamped that month.

It looks as if the SN changes from MMY### to YMM### as of January 1980, & the headstock shape sometime between May & October 1980... so yours may have just closed that gap a bit.

P.

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[quote name='jeweytheroux' timestamp='1393578172' post='2382032']
Cheers mate, very interesting! Looks like its slighty older than I thought.

Did you think it was an SB-600 then?[/quote]

SB-600 = Set neck : http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/catalogs/1981ts/81ts_a_pg3.jpg.html & http://www.gfyfe.com/sb600.htm
SB-700 = Through neck: http://www.gfyfe.com/sb700.htm

[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1393581363' post='2382106']
I know this is off topic for the sale thread but enjoy the free bump.

My SB1000 with Batwing headstock is 011027 Jan '81 Using the new methodology![/quote]

Not if the format change occurs from Jan 1980... I read yours as No 027 of Nov 80 :ph34r:

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