Why not? My MIK SATF is as nice as my US made Studio. Had to replace the pickups in the SATF but otherwise they’re fantastic. Oh, you just bein snobby?
What does that matter? Group think is a disease. Way to think independently despite the hisses from non thinkers as that makes the world a better place.
I'm another who is curious about dates and who actually manufactured the import series. I happened to bump into Hamer with a used MIK SATF that I found sitting on a shelf and was so impressed by it (as a GIbson player) it started a little Hamer obsession with me. Interestingly there's 2 Indonesian Hamers at a local shop, one a bucker and the other a gold top P90. The P90 model is so shodily put together it's almost hilarious (and disappointing since I'm looking for one) but the bucker one is right up there with my MIK one. Would be interesting to see if there were different shops involved or if someone was just having a Gibson day.
^ I would think that this would spill over to other brands and have the same style stickers which I’m not seeing. I have a MIK sunburst with a sticker mounted horizontally (as it sits on a stand) with the serial on it with MiK under. The 9 number sticker that starts with 3 is an enigma?
What does the 9 digit serial on a vertically placed sticker mean? Starts with a 3 like the above example. Saw one of these recently but it doesn’t appear to have a country of origin on it.