> "I guess that the Koreans, unlike the Japanese, didn't go much on keeping records which is sad for 'Anoraks' like me."

There aren't good records for either!

The thing about MIK E numbers especially is that some of these necks were MIJ and sent to Korea to get production going there, just as parts were sent from the US to Japan to get early production off the ground there.

> "The pickups may be a bit down on output (certainly compared to the 'S' serial one I have ,which I know is 1988/9),"

Maybe down to ceramic pups in the S, as opposed to alnico pups in the E.