Hagstrom Serial Number Lookup - tradersoftwares43’s blog

In the beginig there was only accordions. From january 1925 until the summer of 1958 the main business of the Hagstrom company was based on accordions. There was some acoustic guitars produced in Oslo, Norway and a couple of Hawaiian lap steel guitars built in Falun, Sweden in the late 1940 s. After a journey to the US in 1958 Albin Hagström s oldest son Karl Erik Hagström came back to Sweden stating that the accordion era was comming towards an end and that the future was rock n roll and that Rock music demanded electric guitars insted of accordions. After some research, witch included taking a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop apart Hagstrom was the Scandinavian Gibson distributor at that time, the head designer Holger Berglund and his right hand man Arne Hårdén started to design the first Hagstrom electric guitar.

During the end of 1958 there was a pre-production batch of guitars built. Those instruments probably have their serial numbers stamped in their perloid covered bodys starting from P-001. The first official batch of Hagstrom electric guitars is batch 449. The first part of this batch is Hagstrom De Luxe small model and the last part is the large model witch later became the Hagstrom De Luxe 90. In this first batch there was 200 guitars built from 1958 to 1959. The last batch of Sparkle Pearloid guitars was batch 540 built in 1963.

Guitar models built in the Sparkle Pearliod era

De Luxe smal model, 1958-1959. Basically this is the same model that later became the Standard 80. One big differes is that the small model had the binding on the middle of the side of the body. Known colors: white perloid plastic.Standard Sweetone, 1959 probably the same type of guitar as the Standard 80. Sevral Sweetone guitars have other colors than the white perloid. Known colors: white, red and blue perloid plastic, mahogany front with white perloid plastic back and sides, white pearloid front with blue pearloid sides, back and neck.

Standard 80, 1959-1962. The most common of the Sparkle Pearloid guitars. The finish with white perloid body and neck or white body with black neck. The Standard 80 was built with or without the Hagstrom Tremar tremolosystem. Known colors white perloid plastic, red and blue sparkle front, all black body and neck, mahogany front.

De Luxe 90, 1959-1962. Probably the very first De Luxe 90 guitras were those named Big model in the last part of the first official produced batch, 449 from 1958-1959. Known colors: red, blue some turns more to purple than blue, gold and sea foam green sparkle front, all black body and neck, mahogany front.

Goya 80, export USA, 1960-1962. Same specifications as the Standard 80. The US distributor of Hagstrom considered Hagström to be a hard-to-sell brand name on the US market and therefor used the name Goya insted. Due to the fact that the custom fees were lower on acoustic, or in this case non electric guitars, most of the guitars were delivered without electronics and then assembled in teh US. There was four different electronic units to chose from, P12, one pick up and two buttons, P24 two pick ups and four buttons, P26, and P46. Known colors white perloid plastic, red, blue, gold and champagne sparkle front, all black body and neck, mahogany front.

Goya 90, export USA, 1960-1962. Same specifications as the De Luxe 90, the rest of the story is the sama as for the Goya 80 above. Known colors: red, blue, gold and champagne sparkle front, all black body and neck, mahogany front.

De Lux Batman, 1962-1963. Also nick named Duck s foot. This is the only guitar designed by Karl Erik Hagstrom himself. The Batman has set neck and came with or without Tremar tremolo. Known colors: red, blue some turns more to purple than blue sparkle front, all black body and neck.

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Originally Posted by WAB74

Can you date a hagstrom from the serial number. I read recently that the first two numbers are the year, but this seems wrong to me at least sometimes. Is there a rule governing this. Do new Hagstroms follow the same numbering system.

No, Hagstroms can not be dated by the number alone. Hagstrom do publish a serial number book, but if my memory serves the money from the sales of the book goes to the Hagstrom workers pension scheme or something - so I think they ve asked for it not to be reproduced. no idea where I read this - might be wrong in the details.

If you tell me a number I can give you a year

Sorry got not information on the numbering scheme of current Hagstroms

Originally Posted by jules

Originally Posted by fjabjr

serial 873164

873- is a batch of 250 Swedes from 73

You can t tell anything from just looking at the numbers; you have to look this up

Thanks for the reply. So you re saying this could possibly be from 73. Interesting. I m not exactly sure what you mean by have to look this up. How, where. I ve found some websites most already listed in earlier postings in this thread but it s hard to figure out where to go. I ve emailed some folks over in Sweden who seem to know much about Hagstrom so hopefully they ll get back to me.

I haven t taken any photos yet. Will do so soon. The shop I bought it at said there was only one previous owner. The guitar definitely has its fair share of dings and scratches and finish issues. But because the neck just plays so nice and the beast its heavy sounded so great, I didn t care what it looked like. And how can you resist that cool Hagstom headstock and those awesome tuning keys. The orignial owner replaced the hagstrom bridge pu with a Dimarzio have no idea what model but it sounds very sweet. There is also a missing part or twothe string holder cover that I see on most photos of old Swedes is not there and the pu and tone selector switches are missing the plastic caps

I traded in a 2003 Epiphone Dot and 50 for the Swede and couldn t be happier.

Hagstrom Swede, G L Legacy, Fender Telecaster MIM

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Re: how to date a hagstrom

Wow 75. I would love to know the tale of how this got to the states. I m guessing I bought it in 79 I do remember they sold Ampeg stuff

Thanks jules

Hello Jules,

I just bought a Hagstrom II serial number 652770. Would love to know what year it was produced and any other info you might have. Thanks very much in advance.

Originally Posted by seamus27

Hagstrom II serial number 652770.

This is one of a batch of 1000 Hagstrom IIs produced in 1965. Got a pic you can upload.

Thanks very much, Jules. I didn t think it would be that old. Thinking more 67-70.

I ll get some pics and upload as soon as I can.

hello everyone, I like a lot of u lov my swede, big time, pulled it out after some years of dust collecting, doin other things and wow,how nice is that. my only complaint is the guitar is a little heavy for an old rocker like me but will never part with her. what was the weight of the hagstrom swede. also since i hav this new lov affair im mighty curious as to the date of her birth. serial 826088,the guitar is cherry red,and some close to mint, i lov the fretboard big time,sooo smooth,im going to try and send u all a foto of the bb, oops i guess the upload needs a smaller file,will send the jpg shortly sincerely Bill gulf islands,bc,canada

Originally Posted by uncle bill

serial 826088

Hi Bill,

This is from batch of 350 Swedes made in 1972

Yes, please attach a picture

I bought my Swede second hand many years ago, around 79 I think looking to date it, serial number is 868205

Thanks,

Scratch.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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