Celebrity CC059 - trying to get a general manufacture date
Randy22
Posted 2022-11-29 11:35 AM (#557874)
Subject: Celebrity CC059 - trying to get a general manufacture date


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Just purchased a used CC059 nylon. It's shallow bowl but doesn't have the Op-20 electronics (has a separate battery compartment and a 4 slider electronics unit, no tuner). Any idea when they changed the electronics? Did the Op-20 come first, or later?

Randy
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DanSavage
Posted 2022-12-08 4:24 PM (#557886 - in reply to #557874)
Subject: Re: Celebrity CC059 - trying to get a general manufacture date



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Looking through the catalogs on Jerome's site, the CC059 doesn't appear until the 2002 MY.

In all the catalogs I saw that had the CC059, the catalogs say these guitars got the OP20.

The 2000 MY catalog shows several types of preamps. The only one with a 4-slider model is the DJ-4, but that catalog doesn't have the CC059 guitar.

The 2001 catalog still shows the DJ-4, but again, no CC059.

The CC059 was introduced in 2002, the same year as the OP20.

Because the factory probably still had DJ-4 preamps in stock, or the OP20 was not yet delivered to the factory, they probably put the DJ-4 into the earlier CC059.

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say yours is a transitional model, probably 2002.

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DanSavage
Posted 2022-12-08 4:32 PM (#557887 - in reply to #557874)
Subject: RE: Celebrity CC059 - trying to get a general manufacture date



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My Dusty Guitar has a photo of the DJ-4.

Is this your preamp?

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Randy22
Posted 2023-01-01 2:33 PM (#557923 - in reply to #557874)
Subject: Re: Celebrity CC059 - trying to get a general manufacture date


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I think so, but actually I returned it to use the money toward a 1996 Collectors.
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2023-01-02 3:20 PM (#557924 - in reply to #557874)
Subject: Re: Celebrity CC059 - trying to get a general manufacture date


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Good move.....
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