Mouais, curieux qu'ils se soient emmerdés à mettre un H juste pour hardware. Tu te bases sur quoi pour affirmer que c'est Hardware ?
Et encore une fois, ça voudrait dire quoi sur les modèles se terminant par GM1 ou CF1 qui sont effectivement Gold et chevalet Maestro et l'autre Chrome avec un FLoyd Rose ?
Mais bon, comme apparemment il n'y aucune information/source officielle ... tu as peut être raison, je n'affirme rien, je constate simplement. Et comme à priori Gibson n'est pas super constant sur ce "codage", vas savoir !
En tout cas, voici une des discussions qui me fait dire ça :
https://forum.gibson.com/topic(...)oder/
edit: mouais, j'ai l'impresion que meme chez Gibson c'est pas super clair.
https://forum.gibson.com/topic(...)14343
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CH code: I also own several Gibson acoustics as well as Gibson electrics, and have seen many model numbers. CH is used on acoustics and it means Chrome Hardware. Similarly Gibson acoustics use GH and NH for Gold Hardware and Nickel Hardware. Note the hardware code is 2 letters in all cases. As for electrics, here's a Sweetwater listing page for a '61 SG Standard Vibrola which lists the model number/manufactures part number as SG61V00VENH1 where NH is the code for Nickel Hardware, NOT Nickel, Hardtail. As for a hardtail - here's a Sweetwater listing page for 61 SG Standard (hardtail) which lists the model number/manufactures part number as SG6100VENH1, ending the same way. Seems Gibson is again using NH for Nickel Hardware, NOT Nickel, Hardtail. For acoustics as well as electrics, this makes using C for Chrome and H for Hardtail obviously problematic, and I'm not sure it is correct.
1 code: In 1985 Gibson stopped labeling seconds, but many model numbers still end in 1. It appears that Gibson acoustic reassigned the number for the hand - 1=RH, 2=LH, and 3=RH with pick up, and 4=LH with pick up. Sometime after 2014 Gibson Acoustic began to drop the ending digit from model numbers and designate left handed guitars by ending the model# with "L". I don't know what Gibson electric division uses the 1 for, but it doesn't indicate the hand.
et un peu plus loin :
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But I can tell you that the H in CH is definitionally not Hardware. Find a Les Paul with a Floyd and tell me what the model number is? I can tell you it has a F, not a H. I have an ES with a Maestro that is ES456416SCGM1. And I've seen lots more examples too. So again, certain presumptions have been made that are just not true. Sometime one has to use counter-logic too. H really can't mean hardware. Gold, Nickel, Chrome means the hardware color. The second digit would be meaninglessly redundant if that were true. But it is not, as other letters do exist, but are relatively rare in Gibson models.
