S500 Lost Years - '88 - '90 ?

Every website says something like: 'The S500 switched to a more Strat-like body after 1988.' There's even a pic on the Greg Gagliano site of a 'rare' exception S500 made more recently than 1988 still in the old style.

What I can't find online are any pictures of a Strat-bodied S500 , labeled as being between 1988 and 1990 . You go straight from the Skyhawk-esque '87s to the '91 Signature S500 (with Fender style body.) My question is:

• Would an '88 - '90 S500 have used the SC3 or Skyhawk Signature style body, immediately after the earlier metal plate body guitars were made? Or did the S500 leap straight into the more Strat-like body, while the Skyhawk made at the same time used the smaller but still Strat styled SC3 body with pickguard and no plate?
  
• Were any S500s even made between '88 - '90 , aside from one-off earlier style guitars? Were they all Signatures during that period?

Highlighting the differences:

S500 Signature:


Skyhawk Signature:

See this post in our Knowledgebase forum : viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2038&hilit=Gabe+S500 .

Hope this helps.

Thanks Craig- So if those three generations are the only ones that exist, the S500 never shared bodies with the later 'Strat Style' SC3/Skyhawk? Break-down is: Early era ('82 - '90 ) with typical early G&L shape & control plate, middle era ('91 - '96 ) where the Legacy style body was used, and late ('96 - Present) with the four bolt etc.

Bought an '88 S-500 off the wall in Dale Hyatt's office. He said if you took the body to fender and the measured it out, they wouldn't be able to tell it wasn't a Strat.

I recently bought an '88 1st Gen S500 off of Reverb. The body date on that one is July 14, 1988.
I put some photos up in this thread.

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