Hi Palmer. The info on the ST Special S I have is the following: body: Californian solid maple; bolt on one-piece Canadian rock maple neck; 22 nickel silver frets; colour: black; 3 HP single coil pickups GS-1; 5-way switch; vol/tone/tone; gold hardware; graphite nut; deluxe machine heads; USA-Wings strings.
The model with the serial number 8723440 was made in 1987.