Check reverb dot com and ebay, condition and playability play a huge role. We don’t know, our focus is on today’s basses. The guitars seem to have held up OK, and Int’l (Japan) versions are usually fine.
Truss rods are known problems on the ‘70s -early ‘80s USA basses. There is no perfect tool due to variance in installation & access cuts on the USA models. We use a shaved down little 5/16 box end wrench. They continued using the bent brass bridge past when the USA shop was. Haven’t cracked the serial number code but most likely late 1970s. If bridge is original, info is on this page. You’ll most likely see 77 to 81 as original era. Look for numbers on the pots - the first three are a factory code like 134 or something the next two are the year. But these are the questions we get and have trouble keeping up with, so here you go - thanks! QUICKIES: More detailed info on all of these in deeper on this page. *** GATHERING MATERIAL FOR ANOTHER UPDATE - SONNY STORBECK (The “S” in S.D.) IS ALIVE AND WELL! May 2023 *** Thanks so much for your interest! ~Scott Beckwith, Nov. Understand it's never 100% but it's probably pretty close, and I do correct it as necessary as the pieces continue to settle into place. So now - with all of that cross referenced - here is how it falls together. I've been a fan of SD Curlees since I was kid looking at their ads in '70s Guitar Player magazines, I've spoken with everyone around to speak with, and I own most of the original tooling, fixtures and templates. My own decades of experience as a luthier & guitar builder, guitar shop & company owner, and repairman just plays in to provide a bit of reality as to how a shop works, what could have possibly happened - or not - and the behind-the-scenes understanding of reasons for certain decisions that may be obvious from this side of the bench, and help better tie things together. Physical evidence does tend to tie things together in a logical order. Done this way, it does fit together in a logical flow much more accurate and detailed than the old article in Guitar Stories, for example, or a Wiki page anyone can go in and revise from their one perspective (which happens). This is an attempt to take a logical timeline built on years of instrument date & feature comparisons, part introduction dates (in other words if someone remembered working with a pickup in '76 that didn't exist until '77, respectfully we go with '77), and an overall understanding of how the instruments evolved, and drape first hand accounts and reference interviews over that framework. There was only one man there in the first chapter from beginning to end and he is deceased.
It was a brief, intense time for them and a long time ago in their lives. * Please understand people remember things differently, independent of each other and sometimes even outside of when they could have possibly happened.
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