Older Model Comparison

BASIC:

1/8” steel pot (thinner than today’s Boston)

Made of poplar (not mahogany like today’s Boston)

Slightly different peghead shape—lower bumps on the current peghead design were missing –it just went straight down.

There was no peghead veneer – the wood was just stained a reddish brown

The logo was burned in – no decal

Rosewood fingerboard ( ebony on current Boston model)

Dot inlays of mother of pearl

Cream plastic nut (ebony on current Boston)

INTERMEDIATE:

3/16” steel pot (like Boston today)

Model was made of mahogany like today’s Boston

Rosewood fingerboard

Peghead like Basic model above

Peghead was made of alder veneer

Burned logo

Cream plastic nut

Diamonds on the fingerboard

STANDARD:

Not much different from today’s Sierra

Some of them had SOLID Deering tone rings instead of the hollow ones of today

ADVANCED:

Similar to today’s Maple Blossom

Some of the earlier models may have had shoes on them similar to the Boston

Maple blossom shows up on price sheet in May of 1979

DELUXE:

According to the old price sheet, this one came on line in November of 1979

Chuck said it was created for the NAMM SHOW

Earlier pegheads were black veneer which had the peghead burned into the plastic then white filler was put it. Look pretty good just not as “clean” a line as we see on the decals.

Current Boston model is really a combination of the Basic and Intermediate.