HMStrat Serial # Database - Please contribute info

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Hey, mine be : - '89 I think
- H/S/S
- Pink (it might be raspberry)
- Kahler Spyder - I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the strings though (I'm a bass player)
- Maple fretboard & neck
- Serial No. - E834839

[Bodaggit23]

Welcome to the forum!

Post some pics of your HM if you can, we'd all love to see some.

Loosening these will unlock the strings from the trem.

Click on the pic to enlarge

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Ah! Thanks, I'll try and post some pics soon enough.

[tommyh]

Folks,

OK, picked this up the other weekend:

Year: 1988? (I'm just guessing)
Serial No: E827418
Neck: ??
Colour: Teal
Pick-ups: H/S/S
Fretboard: Rosewood
Bridge: Kahler
Owner's Name: Tommyh
Misc: Original

I'll be asking a few questions of you experts. Cheers, T.

[Nicole]

Here's one I have. Anyone have any clues about this one? What's it worth, where is it from, etc etc?

S/N: E843129
Raspberry
1989

Thanks!

[heem6 King of the Chord]

Hi Nicole - I would say it was Made in Japan in 1988. You'll probably get different opinions from different people. You can check the main website on the Background page for more info. Welcome to the forum and please post pictures!

Note to other posters - my desktop computer unfortunately got a virus and that's where all my database files are. I'll get it up and running soon, and will update the serial number database when I do. Thanks for your patience.

[bloozy]

Year: ??? 87-89 ???
Serial Number: E928212
Color: Bright White
Pickups: HSS
Fretboard: Rosewood
Trem: Kahler
Garry C

[revengine]

s/n: E915805
Colour: Black (no scratch guard)
Fretboard: Rosewood
Fret count: 24
Pick-ups config: H/S/S
Tremolo: Kahler "Spyder" (stamped "made in USA")
Controls: 1 volume, 2 tone, 5 way selector, and a two-way toggle
Headstock decal: Original larger version (non-digitized)

Not sure of the year, my memory says it's a '90 but I could be wrong. Neck plate is stamped "Fender USA" but from what I've read that could be misleading.

[Marty Dooster]

s/n: F016357
Colour: was Pink
Fretboard: Maple
Fret count: 24
Pick-ups config: H/S/S
Tremolo: Kahler "Spyder" (stamped "made in USA")
Controls: 1 volume, 2 tone, 5 way selector, and a two-way toggle
Headstock decal: Original larger version (non-digitized)

I had two HM Strats for stage use and still have one of them. I kept the one with the best neck and the Seymour Duncam Full Shred pickup which I fitted. I straight swapped a Desert Yellow Ibanez RG something back in around 1991/2 for this guitar at Machinehead Music inthe UK. The original pink finish had to go so I blew all the paint off of the guitar using a heat gun so it now has a scorched/natural finish. Still plays like a dream so I've never sold her. I sold the white one on Ebay a while ago but it just didn't play as well and was gathering dust.

[heem6 Your Humble Narrator]

Hi people,
Thanks for all the info. My desktop (which has the hard drive that contains the database) fried it's computer chip the other night. I'll be rebuilding within a couple of weeks and will try to get your info uploaded then. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the delay.

New visitors - feel free to post your info and I will also log it when I'm back up and running with the database.

P.S. This is probably a good reminder to me to also house the database (excel file) online somewhere as a backup!

[rockerfolk]

Mike williamson (stage name; Michael Dean) pic of my STRAT, neck serial# E808767


Thanx for the help Bodaggit23

[heem6]

Thanks, Mike. Please see the above message for an FYI.

For all you new guys, please post any clips you have of you playing your HM (or another guitar), or of your band. I'm pretty much the only one posting my stuff right now, but I think everyone here would love to hear more people's music. Don't be shy!

After all - we play HM Strats! What's not to brag about?!! ;D

[Bodaggit23]

May 31, 2010 14:19:12 GMT -5 rockerfolk said:

Thanx for the help Bodaggit23

You're very welcome. Glad I could help!

Beautiful HM you have there!

[rockerfolk]

Yeah, I like the neck/fretboard. Poor guitar has been beat up pretty good, does not stay in tune all up and down the neck, I have tried all the different sizes of allen wrenches... none fit, or maybe the nut for the truss rob is damaged? I will take it in anyway, my woman says I have to pay off my Martin acoustic before I can spend 1+K for a nice Stratocaster (what I most definitely NEED! ha)
More pix of my STRAT #E808767


Well... guess I can only copy & paste one pic at a time?

[rockerfolk]