CoolJoMark
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anyone know if over the past years if the number of historics produced per year has been consistent? anyone have that number?
I'm really looking forward to know this number, at least a near idea.
My R9 was made in the late March and it's 376 so I guess they produce something near 400 guitars per trimester. That would be a total of about 1600 per year. Probably a single model can go up to 2000 or maybe a little more, but as vintage58 already said it's more likely to be in the 3000 for the most productive years.
anyone know if over the past years if the number of historics produced per year has been consistent? anyone have that number?
According to Walter Carter's article "Keeping the Flame Alive" 1999 and earlier they were only making 500 or less guitars per year. I am not sure when the production started to increase but in recent years they have been making tons of them. In 2009 I played one R9 serial number 99238X that's over 2300 R9's alone.
Actually 1999 was the first year of over 2000 R9's produced. Prior to 1999 there were around 300 per year. In 2002 there was a limited amount of R9's, maybe 300-500 and they sold for $5500.00. There have been around 2000 or more in all of the other years since '99.
400 per Trimester....
400 X 3 = 1600????
...:hmm
I know I'm from a cow town, but I come up with 1200?
PS: I'm just busting your chops...for grins...:rofl
:lol
Well, a year has 12 months and a trimester has 3. So 12months per year/3 months per trimester=4trimesters per year
RIGHT?!
400guitars per trimesterx4trimesters=1600 guitars per year
:3zone
Just kidding bluesforstevie!
I always thought there were 3 per year...hence the word "tri" 12/3 = 4 months per trimester. Right? I mean I don't know...maybe its a business cycle thing??
Tri-mester...3 per year.
In a school year you have 3 trimesters and the fourth is holiday, isn't it?Least when I went to school...many, many moons ago...We had 3 trimesters per year.
Actually 1999 was the first year of over 2000 R9's produced. Prior to 1999 there were around 300 per year. In 2002 there was a limited amount of R9's, maybe 300-500 and they sold for $5500.00. There have been around 2000 or more in all of the other years since '99.
Well... :wah
A trimester is period of 3 months. Hence TRImester. 4 TRImesters make a year.
A semester is a period of 6 months. 2 semesters make a year.
Probably the error is that you have 4 trimesters in a year, so a trimester is a quarter of a year being indeed 12/3=4. A trimester is a quarter of a year, hence it's got 3 months.
In Italy we also have quadrimester, which is a period of 4 months, and it is logically a third of a year.
This causes the confusion! 4 trimesters in a year VS. 3 qadrimesters (I don't even know if this word exist in english language :hmm ) in a year
That's wrong because a you don't have 4 quadri-mesters in a year, that would be 16 months!
Or 6 sem-ester: you don't have 6 semesters in a year, that would be 36 months!
In a school year you have 3 trimesters and the fourth is holiday, isn't it?
Indeed in Italy we use the quadrimester and not the trimester at school.
:bike
Actually 1999 was the first year of over 2000 R9's produced. Prior to 1999 there were around 300 per year. In 2002 there was a limited amount of R9's, maybe 300-500 and they sold for $5500.00. There have been around 2000 or more in all of the other years since '99.
So that makes before 1999 around 2,500 R9s. 1999-2011 24,500 or so.
27,000 R9s and counting....how many original bursts were there again.....? eace2
I bought a 2001 R9 and I printed a short article off of the Gibson site that said either 400 or 500 were made that year- I don't remember which it was at the moment. It is in the case of the guitar and I'll check it later.
Well, here's #945 from 2001 and i know I've seen higher. So I'd say the article was wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
It just shows how killer these guitars are...That's a lot o Lesters!!!
However, this is one of the reasons I went for one of IA's guitars. Got tired of waiting for Gibson to go ahead and build one just like they did in the glory days. Each year they get closer...but that's part of the plan. I didn't like being a part of this plan...at least not for right now. I wanted something just a little different.