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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: gwEm on October 15, 2008, 10:32:08 AM

Title: BKP serial number?
Post by: gwEm on October 15, 2008, 10:32:08 AM
What exactly does the BKP serial number represent? does it have a meaning? are the numbers stored somewhere?

my theory used to be that it represented the number made of a particular pickup... i just got VH1002 for example - the 1002nd VH2?

just interested :)
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: PhilKing on October 15, 2008, 12:24:46 PM
I think you might find it is a VH2 made on Oct 2nd.  I have to go back and look at some of mine, but I seem to think that was what I thought it was.
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on October 15, 2008, 03:33:30 PM
The serial number is sent to the Pentagon where a black bag task force tracks every boutique guitar accessory's movements throughout the earth as part of an ongoing conspiracy to conceal the existence of extra terrestrials.

PDT_008
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: MDV on October 15, 2008, 04:10:20 PM
Quote from: PhilKing on October 15, 2008, 12:24:46 PM
I think you might find it is a VH2 made on Oct 2nd.  I have to go back and look at some of mine, but I seem to think that was what I thought it was.

No. Its most emphatically not this. Honestly, it isnt. Thats just wrong. Never. No. It cant be. Makes no sense.

I would tell you what its really for, but then I'd have to kill you.
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: gwEm on October 15, 2008, 04:45:07 PM
it seems logical - but what if they do more than one of a particular kind of pickup in a day?
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: gingataff on October 15, 2008, 04:53:25 PM
...Or on the same date in more than one year?
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: the_bleeding on October 15, 2008, 05:39:57 PM
maybe its the 100th vh2 hes made?
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: Jonny on October 15, 2008, 05:44:13 PM
You do know someone has to order a BKP just to satisfy the statement that it was made on that day? :P
I'm up for that if I had the money (which I do, just no guitar)
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: ericsabbath on October 15, 2008, 07:48:03 PM
the date thing is correct
all the BKP's I own/owned have a model-date serial number too
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: il˙ti on October 17, 2008, 09:14:05 PM
That's kind of disappointing. I have a "TM707" and it's a 7 string Mule. I always thought that was deliberate on Tim's part, but I guess not.
Title: Re: BKP serial number?
Post by: Chris Rowberry on October 18, 2008, 06:01:38 PM
We ID them by month, so say VH1008 would mean VHII, 10th month in 2008...:)