Marlin lever action 357 mag/38aol. With serial # k118448 what year was it made?
Hi Shane.  

  

 Referring to this resource site,   

[Marlin Serial Numbers Dates Of Manufacture](http://www.gunvaluesboard.com/marlin-serial-numbers-dates-of-manufacture-1664.html)   

the single 'K' at the start indicates your piece was manufactures in 1953 - almost old enough for Social Security now :-)  

  

Cheers  

D
357 they have stopped the production this year, but there could be availability in selected showrooms or aftermarket see owners manual. it looks like he plays two different types of basses. both are fender precision basses but slightly different models.

one is a fender precision deluxe:

http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0194160750

the other is an reissue of the orginal fender precision (which is not only available as the sting model, but before the sting model, there was a normal 1950's precision:

http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0194160750

the one with the white pickguard and the black finish (shown here: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.punknews.org/images/bands/anberlin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.punknews.org/bands/anberlin&h=225&w=300&sz=23&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=xn\_yr8lok2pesm:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3fq%3danberlin%26svnum%3d50%26hl%3den%26lr%3d%26safe%3doff%26sa%3dn)
is a version of the 1950's precision

it could be a 1951 reissue like this:
http://www.rocknrollvintage.com/proddetail.asp?prod=2003fender51pbassri 218 105 mpa 450 k answer: `1.8706 xx 10^(11) " erg", 4477 cal` 187 334