Meriken SAB Bass By Samick SB
Ref.: 17312112Meriken SAB Bass by Samick SB. 90s-2000s Sunburst Hollow body made in Korea. Gig bag included.
Meriken SAB Bass by Samick SB
BRAND: Meriken
MODEL: SAB (335 hollow body bass)
REFERENCE: Meriken SAB Bass by Samick SB
SERIAL NUMBER: None
YEAR: 90s-2000s
COLOR: Sunburst
RIGHT / LEFT: Right
STRINGS: 45-105
HEADSTOCK: Std SAB
BODY: Laminated NATO with central maple block
NECK: Nato
HEADSTOCK: Open Book
FRETBOARD: Rosewood
PICKGUARD: No
FRETS: 21
SCALE: 34 ”
INLAYS: WH dots
BRIDGE: Individually adjustable
PICKUPS: 1 x EB-style single coil pickup
ELECTRONICS: 1 volume, 1 tone
SWITCH: No
HARDWARE: Chrome
INCLUDES: Gig Bag
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Korea
SAMICK GUITARS
The Japanese market is unique in that Gibson and Fender’s trademark copyrights do not apply there. Therefore, other manufacturers can use their designs, as long as they are only sold within Japan.
Samick made a play for this market starting in the mid 1980s, even going so far as to create brands just for the Japanese market (Meriken, Hot Licks and Nashville), but found it difficult to compete with well-established domestic Japanese brands. By 1991, they began dwindling down their Japanese Market-specific lineup and by 1996 had condensed to a single international lineup.
Dating Japanese market models can be very difficult because most did not include serial numbers at all. For examples using a 3-way box switch, a production date may be ink-stamped on the side of the switch. Only by 1992 did they finally start including serial numbers, following their standard Serial Number format.
710€
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