[quote=Liam;40228]Certainly were. But did all the reissues have them? I thought they were introduced in the late 80s maybe even early 90s - just wondered if anyone knew when. Similarly I gather the necks on early '59s were not as chunky as they became when the '60 reissue came out, so wondered if 1992 was the first year they bothered making the neck profiles "authentic".
(I've got a 1990 USA Standard that has what we would now call a 60s profile neck, but when the Classic came out they started making the Standard necks chunkier to differentiate. Or so it appeared to me.)*
Really? I'm sure in the UK we just got the "Heritage" models, which were basically a standard with different machine heads and curly tops. Little attempt to make them into a reissue.
Series 80 Heritage came stock with Grover machine heads and Tim Shaw pickups
The Bacon and Day book lists the first year of reissues as 1985. Bacon and Day have gone for 1992 for this, but if no-one can corroborate this I'll move it back into the late 90s.
Anyhow, thanks for the info, I've updated the list, and added a something I'd forgotten....
90 was the first year of the 60 Re Issues and they began to have smaller necks then, Some Standards and even slightly later 59s got 60s neck profiles
If you look closely at a Heritage 80s on the bout of the cutaway you can tell it was cut differently than Standards , One way to quickly eyball identify one without a pickguard
Heritage 80s also have a second numbering sequence below the Made in USA Stamp