HAGSTROM BASS UPDATE AND STREAMLINE
HAGSTROM BASS SERIAL NUMBERS INDICATE BATCH

Hagstrom Bass Serial Numbers Indicate Batch

I would hang out at that place before, and after my guitar lesson, and even go there after school, just to check out the guitars.Its mid-1960s Jola, which followed the Hagstrom-inspired Samba and Lotus models, was clearly influenced by Eastern. That is where I fell in love with the guitar. I started playing guitar when I was 13 years old, and took lessons at DoddвЂ™s Music Store in Covington, Kentucky. While batch dating information isnвЂ™t readily available, we know that production of the Hagstrom 1 started in late 1965 (at least, it was renamed from its вЂKentвЂ™ brand name and entered the. Hagstrom serial numbers indicate batch number (first three digits) and position (last three digits). Serial Number: Bass: 627286 Guitar: 6501183.

Goya 80, 1961, Serial 493066. Serial 466250, one of very few known Probably there was only two left sparkle. Hagstrom De Luxe 90 left 1959/60.

H-Expander - All Hagstrom electric guitars and basses include our.The six-on-a-side headstock, had the brand вЂњHagstromвЂќ written in script similar to FenderвЂ™s spaghetti-style font. Hagstrom De Luxe 90, 1961.Hagstrom Super Viking - Dark Baltic Sea (blemish). One of just a small number in red perloid finish.

Albin HagstrГ¶mВ began importing accordions from Germany and Italy to Sweden in 1925 and foundedВ Firma Albin HagstrГ¶m. I donвЂ™t know about fast, but the necks on those old Hagstrom guitars were certainly among the thinnest.Mr. Hagstrom advertised that they were the 'Fastest necks in the World'. But all those switches were mighty impressive to someone learning basic guitar chords.One of the selling features, which was printed on a metallic decal on the back of the Hagstrom guitar headstock, was their вЂњKing NeckвЂќ.This feature refers to the unique вЂњH Expander-StretcherвЂќ truss rod. At that age, I did not know that the vibrato was a much different system than the one on a Fender Stratocaster, or even a Jazzmaster.

Hagstrom Bass Update And Streamline

The Hagstrom U.S branch stayed in business until 1949. Men serving in WWII were coming home with accordions, and in a few years the 'stomach Steinway' would become a brief fad. By 1936, HagstrГ¶m hired two Italian accordion builders who helped to update and streamline the manufacturing process.Then in 1939 HagstrГ¶m started to establish themselves in USA by openingВ Hagstrom Music Company IncВ inВ Rockefeller CenterВ inВ New YorkВ as well asВ Albin Hagstrom IncВ inВ Jamestown, New York.The company had offered guitars as early as the late 1940's, but primarily was known as an accordion manufacturer, and distributor.However, in 1940 the launch in Jamestown was canceled due toВ World War IIВ and the people hired to run the company disappeared with the company's funds.After the war ended, Sven Hillring was sent over from Sweden to oversee a new launch of the new accordion factory in Jamestown, New York.

On the top of the frame were four push button tone controls, as well as two rotary potentionmeters.In the center of the metal frame, between the two pickups, was a piece of gold or silver foil with diamond shaped patterns.When I was young, I was told the feature was to enhance the sound, if the instrument was played un-amplified. While the guitarвЂ™s front was generally done in a sparkle colour, the rest of the body used the pearloid material.This guitar had two single coil pickup that are surrounded by a metal frame. This was because importer Jerome Hershman, who had been the sole importer of Levin guitars from Sweden, under the Goya brand, inked a deal to import and distribute Hagstrom guitars in the United States.The original models were known as the De Luxe вЂњSmal ModelвЂќ (that is not a typo, It is called Smal) ,which was the first guitar and manufactured from 1958-59.These original guitars were covered with perloid plastic on the front and back of the body, the sides, the body, the neck, the fretboard, and the front and back of the headstock. The first 'official' batch of Hagstrom electric guitars is batch 449.The first part of this batch is called the Hagstrom De Luxe 'small model' and the last part is the 'large model' witch later became the Hagstrom De Luxe 90.The first batch included 200 guitars that were built from 1958 to 1959.The last batch of these Sparkle & Pearloid guitars included 540 guitars that were built in 1963.Many of these guitars were sold under the Goya brand name in the United States. A pre-production batch of guitars were built towards the end of 1958.Those instruments have theirВ serial numbers stamped in their perloid covered bodies starting from P-001. Rock music demanded electric guitars instead of accordions!After some research, that included taking a Gibson Les Paul 'Goldtop' apart (Hagstrom was the Scandinavian Gibson distributor at that time), the head designer Holger Berglund and his right hand man Arne HГҐrdГ©n started to design the first Hagstrom electric guitar.

The strings attached to a small metal tailpiece. The bridge/saddle was in-distinctive, and not tunable. The side of the instrument featured a strip of binding in the center. There was no logo on the headstock.The tuning machines were of the open backed variety and had ivoroid buttons. It was just further adornment.Below the metal frame that housed the pickups and electronics, was a clear plastic pickguard.A stamped chrome metal Hagstrom logo was adhered to the upper bout.

These mostly came in sparkle models, But the Standard 90 was also available with the Mahogany front. This model also was available with a mahogany top.Next came the Standard 80 and Standard 90 were developed in 1959 and sold through 1962. The features were similar, but the bridge was now made of metal, and on most models it was compensated.

The electronics were similar to the Standard models, The Batman was available with twin single coil pickups, or with four single coil pickups, It was also offered with a stop tailpiece, or the Hagstrom Tremar system.This is the only guitar that Karl Erik Hagstrom designed. This guitar had two pointed cutaway horns, a set neck, and a headstock with points on either end. It is also known as the Hagstrom Ducks Foot guitar.

At a time when guitars imported from the USA had high tariffs.The top was made of an acrylic material that was dyed either light blue or red so no paint was necessary on the body. Kent guitars were meant for distribution throughout Europe, and the U.K. The units included the roller knobs for pickup volume, and either four or six tone switches.From 1962 to 1966 Hagstrom offered some guitars branded under the Kent logo, known as the Kent model PB-24G.The reason the guitar was not sold under the Hagstrom brand was that Karl Hagstrom was worried that the acrylic top - pickguard/electronic assembly may crack, and he did not want the Hagstrom name on this product.This guitars body was shaped like a Fender Stratocaster.

It resembles an inverted Stratocaster jack.The back of this guitars body was a vinyl covered shell which allowed the body to line up with it, and six bolts and washers around the top's perimeter secured the top in place. Below the volume control is a raised section for the input jack. The guitar included one master volume knob. Though it looked like a scratch plate, it was actually a molded part of the top.On the bottom were four slider switches which turned the pickups off or on, and changed the tone. It generally held two single coil pickups with an indented area for the gold or silver foil insert.