My rg 7420 has a serial year of 99?

[screamingABA]

Production was supposedly from 2000 - 2002 (courtesy of jemsite.) I imagine this is normal, as the need to produce guitars before their actual selling year in order to have them available. Can someone please confirm this?
Thanks!

[giannifive]

Mine is a 2000 with an F99 neck. I'm pretty sure the RG7620 and RG7420 used exactly the same production of necks, so I'd guess in 2000 they just used leftover necks.

[screamingABA]

Interesting, I thought that the 420 used a single piece neck, while the 620 had a 3 piece. Is this correct?

[Drew]

The old 7620 I used to have (a '99) had a one-piece neck. They switched later on to a three-piece/skunk stripe neck, but I'm not sure when exactly.

As both are Japanese-made guitars, and I've heard of several 7420's with neck jointest stamped 7-620, this wouldn't surprise me in the least that the initia run of 7420's just used existing spare 7620 necks.

[Algiman]

It seems very common for the necks to be the same on different models - my 7421 has a 7621 neck.

[Drew]

Same deal, I'd imagine - they're both japanese in origin.

[Flobanez]

My first 7-string, a 7620 which I still have, has a 1997 serial # (F9756042) and it is a '98, the year they came out.