Dating a PRS from the serial number?

[jazzedout]

How can you date a PRS from the serial number? How can you tell a '88 from a '98 from a '08 for example? Are there 4 digit, 5 digit serials etc?

[jim777]

http://www.prsguitars.com/csc/year.html

[jazzedout]

Doh... Thanks!

[John C]

I noticed that listing only goes up through 2006, so here's some additional information that will help to ID the year going forward:

Some time during 2008 PRS started using a "08" instead of an "8" on the serial numbers.

For example, I just got in my first PRS in about 4 years - a KL1812. It has the "08" on the serial number (although it didn't leave the factory until early January 2009).

In looking at some guitars on a few websites I've found 2008s with both the "8" and the "08", so I don't know when they made the change; all 2009s have the "09".