Boss PH-1, a theory. WRONG !!!
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:09 am
For many years now I've been hunting first batch silver screws, only 3 are missing in my collection, a TW-1 (7200), a DS-1 (7100) and a PH-1 (6400???).
I saw a TW-1 7200 for sale only once, found it in a Canadian e-commerce, google searched the name of the store and using google maps even saw the store's facade at a small Canadian town. Don't remember the names of the store and the town, didn't save the pictures of the pedal, unfortunately.
Regret that I didn't buy it, but it was expensive and adding the shipment and taxes here in Brazil (60% over the price of the good plus the cost of shipment) it would became an absurd.
If you search google images "Boss DS-1 7100" you may find some "old" pictures of a first batch DS-1, not for sale, just a guy showing off his unit. I saved that:
Over the years, I saw a few SP-1 from November 1977, and some OD-1 too. Also saved these pictures of a pair for sale in their original styrofoam boxes, very, very, very expensive!
But I never saw a November 1977, 6400, PH-1.
So, I can be sure that there are all first batch silver screws as described in the Boss book, batch numbers are correct in all of them, all but the PH-1.
What if there is no 6400 November 1977 PH-1?
What if Boss began producing the "traffic light" models, the SP-1 and OD-1 in November 1977, but only started producing the PH-1 by December 1977 (6500)?
A 6500 PH-1 unit, I saw a couple times.
Boss probably aimed the release of those models to the year's end sales, Christmas sales.
Maybe those models hit the stores around mid December 1977, so Boss could have built the SP-1 and OD-1 models at first, in their small (at that time) production line, and only by December they began the assembly of the PH-1.
That would explain the fact that the PH-1 is the only traffic light silver screw model that I never saw a 6400 first batch unit, even being a mentally sick, madly driven, first batch hunter like I am.
That's my theory.
Please, if you ever saw a 6400 November 1977 PH-1, tell us your story.
I saw a TW-1 7200 for sale only once, found it in a Canadian e-commerce, google searched the name of the store and using google maps even saw the store's facade at a small Canadian town. Don't remember the names of the store and the town, didn't save the pictures of the pedal, unfortunately.
Regret that I didn't buy it, but it was expensive and adding the shipment and taxes here in Brazil (60% over the price of the good plus the cost of shipment) it would became an absurd.
If you search google images "Boss DS-1 7100" you may find some "old" pictures of a first batch DS-1, not for sale, just a guy showing off his unit. I saved that:
Over the years, I saw a few SP-1 from November 1977, and some OD-1 too. Also saved these pictures of a pair for sale in their original styrofoam boxes, very, very, very expensive!
But I never saw a November 1977, 6400, PH-1.
So, I can be sure that there are all first batch silver screws as described in the Boss book, batch numbers are correct in all of them, all but the PH-1.
What if there is no 6400 November 1977 PH-1?
What if Boss began producing the "traffic light" models, the SP-1 and OD-1 in November 1977, but only started producing the PH-1 by December 1977 (6500)?
A 6500 PH-1 unit, I saw a couple times.
Boss probably aimed the release of those models to the year's end sales, Christmas sales.
Maybe those models hit the stores around mid December 1977, so Boss could have built the SP-1 and OD-1 models at first, in their small (at that time) production line, and only by December they began the assembly of the PH-1.
That would explain the fact that the PH-1 is the only traffic light silver screw model that I never saw a 6400 first batch unit, even being a mentally sick, madly driven, first batch hunter like I am.
That's my theory.
Please, if you ever saw a 6400 November 1977 PH-1, tell us your story.