Univox Bass Guitar Serial Number Year Madel
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I purchased this guitar at a vintage guitar show for around $75. It looks to be made around the late 70's to early 80's, but could be made earlier. It's supposed to be a Stratocaster copy and possibly made in Korea. It is a black Univox, has an Ibanez looking shape, with one single coil pickup, two dials, one 3-way switch selector and one Humbucker. A very similar guitar is listed on Vintage Univox as unknown, I've included a screenshot below. I've also seen very similar guitars on websites with slightly different looking heads, and they sell for around $180 - $400 depending on the condition, but a model is never listed. I've also checked the guitar multiple times for serial number, names, or anything, but there is nothing other than the Univox logo on the headstock.
Univox-branded fretted instruments (electric and acoustic guitars and electric basses) began being imported from Japanese contract manufacturer Matsumoku in 1968,[citation needed] In 1978 Unicord phased out the Univox line of guitars and equipment. They switched to an original guitar line called "Westbury", and an amp line called Stage which lasted until about 1982. The Unicord Corporation was purchased by Korg in 1985, effectively ending the line.
A number of tube and solid-state amplifiers were produced by Univox over the years. These ranged from small practice combo amps to powerful heads with separate cabinets. Some models had built-in spring reverb and tremolo effects. In 1971, Univox introduced the B Group amplifiers, covered in two-toned blue or gray Tolex with distinctive ovaloid cosmetics.[1] The C-Group (UX) line of amps were used by The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin.[2]
Each of our guitars comes with a lifetime limited warranty. Eastwood warrants all instruments to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for as long as the original retail purchaser owns it. Electronics, tuning machines, and other moving parts are warranted for a period of one year from the date of original purchase.
PICTURESOne of these days I'll get around to doing a proper photo gallery with hundreds of images of various guitars that I have restored over the years. For now, this is just a very small sample. To answer the inevitable question, no, none of these guitars are for sale. Most of them I no longer own. Some were sold locally, some went to many different parts of the world from Russia to Japan to France to Australia. Somewhere, somebody is playing one of my old "junk" guitars, and I love it. A trio of 1966 Decca guitars, two DMI-201's and a top-of-the-line DMI-203. These were made by Teisco for Decca Records. These particular three were originally bought together in early 1967 for a family band, a father and two sons. Guess who got the fancy three-pickup model. All three plugged into a single Decca amp, bought at the same time. Can you just imagine the horrible racket they made? These Russian beauties were made at the Rostov-On-Don factory in the 1980's. The two sisters are called Stella (left, no relation to old American Stella guitars) and Aelita (right). See the family resemblance?Russian Tonika guitars from the 1970's. These are more like cousins, because even though it's the same model, they were made at different factories. The Tonika on the left was made in Sverdlovsk (Ural) and the one on the right is from Rostov. This early 1960's Kawai was also sold under the Kingston brand. The Pace SG from the late 1960's is a bit more obscure, but otherwise it's a fairly typical eample of an early "copy era" Japanese model.Another early 1960's Kawai, a cool little shortscale bass. It was the very first guitar I sold on eBay some years ago. On the right, the legendary 1968 Avalon "Shaggs" model. This one now belongs to a Japanese collector. Only yours truly can manage to sell an old Japanese guitar back to the Japanese, mostly they just come here to buy Fenders!Two Univox Hi-Flyers, made for Merson (Univox) by Matsumoku. The bass is a late 1960's model, the guitar is a slightly later series from the early 1970's.This pair of junkers were literally junk when I got them. The 1959 Kay bass (model K-5965 "Pro") was rescued from the New York City garbage, while the yellow Ibanez Tele (c. 1972 model 2352) was found totally trashed at a flea market for $20. Keep your eyes open folks, you never know what you'll find.Two elegant old gals from Eastern Europe, a Musima Elektra Deluxe V (East Germany, mid 1960's) and an Orpheus Hebros bass (Bulgaria, early 1970's). This is how they rocked behind the Iron Curtain.Green guitars are always fun! Left: 1966 Klira Star Club (Germany, dig the cool pirate sticker!). Right: mid-1960's Sekova thinline (Japan). Funny shapes are cool, too. Left: c.1983 Arbor Explorer, heavy metal, baby! Right: 1968 Domino Californian, surf's up!Two classic 1960's European models, a 1965 Jolana Alfa (Czechoslovakia) and a late 1960's Watkins Rapier-44 (Britain). More crazy Russian electric madness! In the bad old days, you either bought a flashy Ural guitar and were the envy of your friends, or you made your own axe. Left: 1983 Ural guitar. Right: a fairly typical c. 1970's Russian "samopal" (an instrument built at home by an amateur). Tiger examines a c. 1970 Sekova.A big pile of "junk"!
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this guitar I bought for $70.00 when I was in Jr. High school.
I haven't played it in almost 30 years. My wife stuck it down in the basement and the hardware on it pitted. I have just finished buying all new hardware for it and I am getting ready to put it all back together. While I was takeing it apart I started thinking about the history of Univox and the year of this guitar. I you have a way to look it up that would be greatThank you for your time
Someone just gave me a 1970s Univox guitar made in Japan with the serial number 035576. Does anybody know about this guitar. It's a Sunburst color with a Hardtail. It's kind a cool I'm just curious about it like where it's made exactly how many were made if it's worth anything
This great-looking guitar has been in my family for 40 years but never played, I guess cause we're all acoustic-oriented. (except that I play electric bass)
Only info on guitar is steel plate on back reading:
Steel Adjustable Neck
2176469
Anybody?
HOLY COW! I was searching for serial number information on a 12 string I just purchased, and the serial number (2176469) matched yours!!! Ha ha. What are the chances that the serial number I'm trying to date was yours exactly? Anyway, if you would, I'd love to hear about the history of the guitar a little bit. I just took it apart and reattached the neck this month to improve the neck angle and lift the bridge off the guitar a bit. Anyway, if you'd email me I'd appreciate it. If not, then that's ok too. Thanks!
the serial number on my Hi Flier phase 3 is 012777. How old is my guitar? It was a gift from a co worker. It plays great needs a new nut and some new strings. I just got through stripping everything off of it and cleaning it then polishing it up.
08/24/2023 hi just got back my first guitar i purchased new. A Univox Ripper HHH strat copy in natural. My plate reads 009074. Two people earlier had stated their guitars had same plate number. I would like to posit that these plate numbers are not serial numbers but instead build dates. Assuming this mine would have been made in september of 1974. Which would be in line with our purchase in 1975.
I have been collecting guitars for 25 years. Although I have had many different guitars over the years, my preference is for Vintage guitars, which makes eBay a good place to trade because of the wide audience. So consequently you are probably reading this because you saw one of my guitars for sale on eBay. Welcome!
For the past few years I had been looking for a really nice Mosrite Ventures Model Vintage guitar. Prices ranged from $1,500 to $4,000 depending on the year and the condition. Last year an angel descended on eBay with 35 NOS Mosrite guitars that were built in 1987. These guitars were all brand new and were never sold. They were stored in a warehouse for 14 years. Unbelievable! They were auctioned off one by one, week after week, until they were all gone. I bought the 13th one that sold. I was not disappointed.
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