Cats Eyes CE-400 Made in Japan

JohnStratele · Plucker Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 4 Location: UK

Hi guys,

Looking for help dating a CE-400 I'm suspecting 1977 but not sure they were made that early. MIJ CE-400 no suffix, ser no. 148577
Has a Tomiya Gakki guitar shop lable on the back of the headstock.
Any help or pointers appreciated

Thanks John Stratele

Pegcityrocker · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 7:16 am Post subject:

Could possibly be a 1981. I believe the first number from the serial number indicates the year' ie 1 = 1981.

I just bought a 1982 CE-500 from a fellow forum member - looking forward to receiving it. Here is the best Cat's Eyes sight I have found;

http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.cats-eyes.biz/&ei=Dtz6S7_lKJLcNZXO4YMI&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEsQ7gEwBg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcat%2527s%2Beyes%2Bguitar%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DJCz%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dv

JohnStratele · Plucker Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 4 Location: UK

Hi Peg City Rocker,

thanks for your reply and the link. Fantastic site I've not seen it before.
From that I think I can be fairly sure mine is a 77 as I first thought it might be. I has the block lower case logo 6 digit number starting 148 ending in 77. Nice guitar recently bought from Ebay needs the action sorting out but is otherwise fine. It would be nice to know what others think. I will try to post some pictures soon.

Pegcityrocker · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:56 am Post subject:

Cool, looking forward to seeing the photos.

greco_burst · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:03 am Post subject:

It is a 1977, the last two digits give the year, the format changed around 1980 to 1984, just to help confuse us all.

I know that 1983 and 1984 serial the year is identified by the first digit only.

eg 400xxxx is 1984 and has a 7 digit serial

eg 100xxx is 1981 and has a 6 digit serial

Yours is 1977 is xxxx77 6 digit serial

Of interest can you post a pic of the label inside? just wondering if it has the newer label or older label 'cat's eyes'

thanks!
mick

JohnStratele · Plucker Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 4 Location: UK

First posted an enquiry about this guitar in 2008, took me a while to get back but am here now hopefully with the pictures I had intended to load up, if I can fiqure out how to do it! Which I can't and is probably the reason I took so long.
I can see no way to attach images, so if anyone can advise I'll have a go pretty quickly.[/list]