Just picked up an old Kiso, Suzuki F-100 acoustic off CL, cheap. It's nothing fancy, but it's cute and it sounds OK. X-bracing, laminate, mother of toilet seat inlays.

1. Suzuki Acoustic Guitar Review

I thought Suzuki guitars were 70's creations only, and inexpensive student guitars at that. Some years ago I had a cutaway Nagoya acoustic. I can't remember the model number but the headstock as the same as the W 120.

Not a lot of overtones (but the strings that were on it were pretty old, so I'll let you know what it sounds like with new strings once I figure out a few. I think it'll be pretty good for slide though. Questions: Any way to date these? EDIT: Looks like 1972 Label reads (in English, so I'm guessing not a Japan only model): K.

Suzuki KISO, SUZUKI VIOLIN CO., LTD. F-100 JAPAN Serial#: 29034 It doesn't have the 'lawsuit' Martin ripoff headstock logo, so I'm guessing later rather than earlier. EDIT: 1972 (It has a zero fret, which were popular in the 80s with trashy guitars to try to fix intonation issues). One weird thing; I just took the old strings off to clean it and the strings go right through the top so the ball ends are inside the guitar! The strings are fed through the top, so you need to reach inside to remove them. I'm guessing at some point in its life someone drilled through the string holes in the bridge to do this.

Maybe the bridge pins weren't holding or something? Is this normal? (I've never had an acoustic with pegs before) EDIT: Thanks to, I found this with dates, prices, and model numbers. Looks like mine was made from Oct 1968 to Jan 1973 and sold for the princely sum of Y15,000 in 1968 dropping to Y10,000 for the rest of its lifetime.

So, an approximately $100 guitar woohoo Wonder how to decipher that serial #. Without others to compare, it's not possible. Might be meaningless to try anyway. I'm so tempted to use the Japanese calendar dates though: Oct Showa 42 to Jan Showa 48.

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The strings feeding through the top thing. OK, so I did some digging, using that spreadsheet as a Rosetta stone. I found a blog here: that has a lot of posts with models and serials. So, I've tabulated as much of the info from that page and my own guitar to try to figure out the serial number scheme.

I'm fairly convinced the first digit of the serial # is the last digit of the year. Beyond that, I don't see a useful pattern (see below) Also, the spreadsheet gives meaning for some of the letters: ※FH・F：ﾌｫｰｸｷﾞﾀｰ = folk guitar W・GR・GW：ｳｪｽﾀﾝﾀｲﾌﾟ = Western type NY：ﾆｭｰﾖｰｶｰ = New Yorker model# serial# Year Jp year Est.

Year W-65H -1975 Showa F-100 -73 Showa W150 -1980 Showa GA-100 50844???????? K-190J 902?????? Wos 260 BB 90431??????

T120 10903?????? W-300 -1980 Showa 50-55 Could this be 1974?

WT-65H 80614?????? W-65HS 80636?????? KW-150 -1980 Showa 9510 90218??????

Anyone else have a Kiso Suzuki and care to post the model and serial numbers? Although, the body shape on mine looks more like the F-90 than the F-100 from the 1971 catalogue /img. Yeah I have some Kiso Suzukis but they have a date on the label. Not unusual for a maker to use the price in the model number.-100 generally means 10,000 yen but that does not always apply. Some makes did in fact use the first number of the serial for the year, whether they did, I`m not sure. I own lots of old MIJ acoustics and have more questions than answers, just the way it is.

Evidently record keeping was not a priority with many builders and Suzukis underwent quite a few label changes over the years. None of mine have the same label as yours. Zero frets were uses well before the `80s. That trusee rod cover is very much like a `70s model. 10,000 yen today is more pr less $100.oo but do a search and you`ll find that didn`t work out the same at the time the guitar was made. I have a 1948 Suzuki and a 1950 Kiso Suzuki bit are still very playable and I love em to bits, bot are dated on the label.

Suzuki Acoustic Guitar Review

Other Suzukis I have are not and frankly I don`t lose any sleep thinking about when they were made.I just play em. Suzuki also built guitars under many brand names.