With this in mind you can divide the early Blades in 3 sections: Thanks for your email and for playing a Blade guitar.According to the serial your guitar is and end 1991 produced Blade RH-4, handmade in our Japan workshop and it looks like the original pickups have been swapped.Attached you will find the catalog from that time for the original specifications. As stated by Christian, they were all hand-build in their shop in Japan: But why and where does the rumor come from? Well, these 'Switzerland' guitars had a small (easy-removable) sticker on the back of the neck that stated 'Made in Japan', But the iron baseplate of the neck stated 'Switzerland' or labelled "designed in Switzerland" or "Blade Designs of Switzerland" or finally "Gary Levision, made in Switzerland".īut these 'Not so much Swiss-made' guitars are actually the desirable guitars you are looking for. So it is very unlikely someone has a real 'Swiss-made R(H)4/R(H)2. What we can conclude here is that there are no 'Swiss-made' Blades, apart from some prototypes and customs. Early R-2/RH-2s have been made in Japan and later in Korea.īest regardsLevinson AGChristian Hatstatt There have only been a few prototypes and custom models that have been made in Switzerland, The RH-4s out there have been made in Japan. Well there are a lot of myths and it seems like that people do not seem to believe what we are telling them. Can you clarify once and for all which types were actually build in Switzerland, and if so, how to recognize them? Or is it a mix of manufacturing locations used for the same series in the early days? According to these rumors mine ticked all the boxes to be a Swiss made blade. Do these Swiss made rh 2 or 4's actually exist? Or were they all build in Japan, apart from custom and prototypes? I know mid 90's manufacturing moved to Korea, but some people say they actually have a 'swiss-made' RH4. Let me share the conversation i had with their Product developer (and owner of 'Magneto guitars') Christian Hatstatt:ĭear Christian,Thank you for you kind reply, very helpful! However, when searching the internet about serials, dating and country of manufacturing I've found some rumors about how to recognize a real 'swiss-made' blade ( r/h 2-4). So with that in mind i wanted to clarify once and for all, so i contacted Levinson-Blade. There are a lot of contradictions out there and it didn't make my own research any easier. While researching my own pre-fender-lawsuit Blade RH4 i stumbled on a lot of rumors on the elusive 'swiss made' series, how to recognize them and how to date them.
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