This had the advantages of availability and lightness but it is rather a soft wood and will easily split. Throughout most of the years of manufacture of the Rapier range, the guitar bodies were made of Jelutong wood. Logo on a guitar must be 1964 to 1968, WILSON is 1968 onwards *Sometimes the numbers seem to be completely random just to confuse everyone! Models started numbering again from zero e.g some Circuit 4 have low numbers Rapiers below #5000 "could" be 1960-64 especially if they have noĪ Rapier 33 bought new April 1960 is #1731 but another reader has a confirmed 1960 Rapier #5962!!ġ965 Rapier # 5650 (thanks to John Chadwick)ġ968 serial # were in the 15,000s but it looks as if Wilson started the new company name with this new number schemeīy 1972/73 a Wilson W type guitar had #18128ġ982 when production ceased, # were just over 20,000 Rapier manufacture started in 1959 with Rapier DeLuxe (I call them series 1) which looked completelyĭifferent from the usual Strat shape (see guitars page) which appear to have started in 1960. ![]() Please use the information below as guidance only because the numbering system is all over the place up until about 1968. Please contact me (e-mail address on Contact page). Only hope appears to be where someone has had their guitar from new andĬan remember the exact year they bought it. I am currentlyĬonducting research to try to help owners to date their instruments. Register or archive record from the factory which will help. Get many enquiries about dating the guitars. To the problems and peculiarities of Watkins guitars. ![]() On this page I hope to be able to show how an old guitarĬan be restored to a reasonable condition again with particular reference Site is dedicated to Watkins / Wem / Wilson Guitars and Wem amps
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