| l0-74 | First commercial Stick® delivered to customer, made of ironwood with ironwood pickup housing and ironwood belt-hook. |
| 4-75 | Metal trapezoidal nameplate on headstock. |
| 9-75 | Height adjustable individual bridge screws. |
| 5-76 | Neck/fingerboard widened to approximate present width. |
| 5-76 | All strings raised a whole tone to present standard tuning. |
| 1-77 | Large size "jumbo" guitar frets. |
| 3-77 | S-shaped sheet metal belt-hooks with black anodized finish. |
| 3-77 | Black anodized sheet metal tailpiece protruding from tail end. |
| 6-77 | Black anodized sheet metal pickup module replacing wooden module. |
| 1-78 | Entire pickup module height adjustable. |
| 3-78 | Rigid, spring tempered steel trusses of 1/2" by 1/4" bar stock inlayed along rear neck. |
| 12-81 | Detachable shoulder strap with twist-lock stud. |
| 1-82 | Round-wound bass strings replacing flat-wound strings. |
| 4-82 | Height adjustable individual nut screws replacing rectangular wooden string spacer and zero fret. |
| 7-82 | Curved design detail from nut to headstock surface. |
| 10-82 | Injection molded plastic pickup housing with metal fiber shielded interior and molded bobbins for pickup coils. |
| 1-83 | Fur dampers replacing velvet ones. |
| 9-83 | Injection molded plastic belt-hook replacing sheet metal version. |
| 10-83 | Oval nameplate. |
| 11-85 | First injection molded black polycarbonate Sticks with stainless steel Fret Rods™ replacing "jumbo" bass guitar frets. |
| 11-85 | Introduction of loop style damper with polycarbonate Sticks. |
| 6-87 | First Grid(R) MIDI fretboard instrument with MIDI'd melody strings. |
| 7-87 | The ten-string "dedicated" Grid with all strings uniformly thin and tuned to the same pitch. |
| 8-88 | Rubber-mounted pickup module, isolated from direct vibrational contact with the instrument. |
| 10-89 | Hardwood instruments with single adjustable truss rod and stainless steel Fret Rods. |
| 12-90 | First three Grand Sticks®. |
| 7-91 | First commercial production of Grand Sticks. |
| 7-91 | Adjustable bridge/tailpiece unit for 3-dimensional adjustment of individual strings, including a protruding "butt" for standing the instrument on end. |
| 5-92 | Headstock with modified round tip. |
| 1-93 | Convertible interior nut screw to re-group strings from 5 melody plus 5 bass to 6+4, and on The Grand Stick from 6+6 to 7+5. |
| 3-93 | Larger Fret Rods with 3/16" dia. open-"O" grooves in fretboard. |
| 4-94 | Injection molded Grand Stick pickup modules, elongated for the wider Grand Stick instrument body, including molded pickup coil bobbins for 6 and 7 strings. |
| 9-94 | Adjustable belt-hook for elevation of instrument on the player. |
| 10-94 | Shell inlay set of five sizes in paua, abalone, white pearl and black pearl. |
| 1-95 | Introduction of heavy gauge strings as an option. |
| 10-95 | Introduction of the Roland GK-2A customized Grid pickup and Roland guitar synth products for all Stick models. |
| 5-96 | Mounting Wings™ height adjustable assembly for mounting bar pickups on 7-string Stick Bass(R) and customized Sticks. |
| 7-96 | Laminate hardwood construction. |
| 8-97 | First NS/Stick™ prototype. |
| 3-98 | Stick Bass® SB8™ with The Block® ACTV-2™ pickup module with 2 active EMG-FTs. |
| 9-98 | 12-string Block ACTV-2 pickup module on Grand Sticks. |
| 1-99 | 10-string Block ACTV-2. |
| 1-00 | Rails™ 90 degree pointed frets in stainless steel. |
| 2-00 | First NS/Stick dual role tapping/plucking guitar basses. |
| 6-00 | Flaps™ dual nut with tripodal adjustment of each string group. |
| 1-01 | First graphite long-scale 10-string Stick production with Moses Inc. |
| 2-01 | The "Ten-String Grand" model with ten wider spaced strings and matching aligned hardware on a Grand Stick sized fretboard. |
| 5-01 | PASV-4™ model of The Block module for 10 and 8-string Sticks with Villex's 4 passive single-coil pickups and versatile tone controls. |
| 10-01 | PASV-4 Grand Stick pickup module. |
| 07-02 | First graphite long-scale 12-string Grand Stick production with Moses, Inc. |
| 01-03 | First hardwood laminate long-scale 10-string "Stick X36" production. |
| 11-03 | Linear fretboard inlays as optional markers in a broad variety of acrylic colors. |
| 10-04 | The "Alto Stick" with shorter guitar scale length, generally tuned an octave higher on bass and melody sides. |
| 1-05 | Bass guitar inlaid dot pattern introduced on the "SB8" Stick Bass model. |
| 1-05 | Bamboo material introduced on 8, 10 and 12-string Stick models. |
| 4-06 | Graphite neck with rear beveled edges and flat surfaces (US trademark #2,138,101) and new hardwood bodies for NS/Stick |
| 8-07 | Half fretless option for NS/Stick |
| 6-07 | Annodized aluminum housings for Block pickup modules, with dual mounted PCBs containing circuitry and three in-line controls for the PASV-4. |
| 6-08 | First Stick Guitars® (SG12™), 12-string guitar-scale instuments produced. |
| 6-09 | Divided truss rod with 4-way push-pull operation in production instruments. |
| 8-10 | NS/Stick necks in laminated dark bamboo with smaller 1/8" "Rails". |
| 5-13 | Railboard® 10-string Stick model in first production with patented integrated fret (Rail) and beam structure of hard-anodized aluminum, injection-molded bolt-on headstock, and passive/active phantom powered R-Block module with low-profile Villex pickups. |
| 6-13 | All wood and bamboo laminate instruments with smaller 1/8" fret "Rails". |
| 1-16 | Same Railboard model plasma coated in gold, nickel or gunmetal colored zirconium carbo-nitride bonded to an underlying chrome layer. |
| 3-18 | First 8-string Railboard RB8™ produced. |
| 5-19 | First 12-string Grand Railboard™ produced. |
| 5-19 | 10-string guitar scale Alto Railboard™ produced. |
| 12-19 | Medium sized fret Rails 5/32" bar stock for all wood and bamboo laminate instruments. |