| l0-74 |
First commercial Stick(R) delivered to customer, made of ironwood
with ironwood pickup housing and ironwood belt-hook.
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| 4-75 |
Metal trapezoidal nameplate on headstock.
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| 9-75 |
Height adjustable individual bridge screws.
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| 5-76 |
Neck/fingerboard widened to approximate present width.
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| 5-76 |
All strings raised a whole tone to present standard tuning.
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| 1-77 |
Large size "jumbo" guitar frets.
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| 3-77 |
S-shaped sheet metal belt-hooks with black anodized finish.
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| 3-77 |
Black anodized sheet metal tailpiece protruding from tail end.
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| 6-77 |
Black anodized sheet metal pickup module replacing wooden module.
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| 1-78 |
Entire pickup module height adjustable.
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| 3-78 |
Rigid, spring tempered steel trusses of 1/2" by 1/4" bar stock
inlayed along rear neck.
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| 12-81 |
Detachable shoulder strap with twist-lock stud.
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| 1-82 |
Round-wound bass strings replacing flat-wound strings.
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| 4-82 |
Height adjustable individual nut screws replacing rectangular
wooden string spacer and zero fret.
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| 7-82 |
Curved design detail from nut to headstock surface.
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| 10-82 |
Injection molded plastic pickup housing with metal fiber
shielded interior and molded bobbins for pickup coils.
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| 1-83 |
Fur dampers replacing velvet ones.
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| 9-83 |
Injection molded plastic belt-hook replacing sheet metal version.
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| 10-83 |
Oval nameplate.
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| 11-85 |
First injection molded black polycarbonate Sticks with stainless
steel Fret Rods™ replacing "jumbo" bass guitar frets.
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| 11-85 |
Introduction of loop style damper with polycarbonate Sticks.
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| 6-87 |
First Grid(R) MIDI fretboard instrument with MIDI'd melody strings.
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| 7-87 |
The ten-string "dedicated" Grid with all strings uniformly
thin and tuned to the same pitch.
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| 8-88 |
Rubber-mounted pickup module, isolated from direct vibrational
contact with the instrument.
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| 10-89 |
Hardwood instruments with single adjustable truss rod and
stainless steel Fret Rods.
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| 12-90 |
First three Grand Sticks(R).
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| 7-91 |
First commercial production of Grand Sticks.
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| 7-91 |
Adjustable bridge/tailpiece unit for 3-dimensional adjustment of
individual strings, including a protruding "butt" for standing the
instrument on end.
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| 5-92 |
Headstock with modified round tip.
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| 1-93 |
Convertible interior nut screw to re-group strings from 5 melody
plus 5 bass to 6+4, and on The Grand Stick from 6+6 to 7+5.
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| 3-93 |
Larger Fret Rods with 3/16" dia. open-"O" grooves in fretboard.
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| 4-94 |
Injection molded Grand Stick pickup modules, elongated for the
wider Grand Stick instrument body, including molded pickup coil
bobbins for 6 and 7 strings.
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| 9-94 |
Adjustable belt-hook for elevation of instrument on the player.
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| 10-94 |
Shell inlay set of five sizes in paua, abalone, white pearl and black
pearl.
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| 1-95 |
Introduction of heavy gauge strings as an option.
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| 10-95 |
Introduction of the Roland GK-2A customized Grid pickup and
Roland guitar synth products for all Stick models.
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| 5-96 |
Mounting Wings™ height adjustable assembly for mounting bar
pickups on 7-string Stick Bass(R) and customized Sticks.
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| 7-96 |
Laminate hardwood construction.
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| 8-97 |
First NS/Stick™ prototype.
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| 3-98 |
SB8 with The Block(R) ACTV-2™ pickup module with 2 active EMG-FTs.
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| 9-98 |
12-string Block ACTV-2 pickup module on Grand Sticks.
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| 1-99 |
10-string Block ACTV-2.
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| 1-00 |
Rails™ 90 degree pointed frets in stainless steel.
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| 2-00 |
First NS/Stick dual role tapping/plucking guitar basses.
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| 6-00 |
Flaps™ dual nut with tripodal adjustment of each string group.
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| 1-01 |
First graphite long-scale 10-string Stick production with Moses Inc.
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| 2-01 |
The "Ten-String Grand" model with ten wider spaced strings
and matching aligned hardware on a Grand Stick sized fretboard.
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| 5-01 |
PASV-4™ model of The Block module for 10 and 8-string Sticks with
Villex's 4 passive single-coil pickups and versatile tone controls.
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| 10-01 |
PASV-4 Grand Stick pickup module.
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| 07-02 |
First graphite long-scale 12-string Grand Stick production with
Moses, Inc.
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| 01-03 |
First hardwood laminate long-scale 10-string "Stick X36" production.
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| 11-03 |
Linear fretboard inlays as optional markers in a broad
variety of acrylic colors.
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| 10-04 |
The "Alto Stick" with shorter guitar scale length, generally
tuned an octave higher on bass and melody sides.
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| 1-05 |
Bass guitar inlaid dot pattern introduced on the "SB8" Stick
Bass model.
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| 1-05 |
Bamboo material introduced on 8, 10 and 12-string Stick models.
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| 4-06 |
Graphite neck and new hardwood bodies for NS/Stick
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| 8-07 |
Half fretless option for NS/Stick
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| 6-07 |
Annodized aluminum housings for Block pickup modules, with dual mounted PCBs containing
circuitry and three in-line controls for the PASV-4.
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