unusual combo of serial no. & binding
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:10 pm
some of you may recall I have started a data base of the serial nos. of 1965 - 1969 Jazzmasters and and Jaguars and plotted this against the years of manufacture and whether the neck had "dots and binding" or "blocks and binding".
So whenever I see a jm / jag like this I email the seller and ask for the serial no. Recently a Jag came up on GBASE which had "dots and binding" and this morning the seller responded telling me that the serial no. is : L12978
So ... has anyone ever seen an "L" plated Jag or JM which also has "dots & binding" ? I always thought that the binding on the neck came in when they went to neck plates with the "F " (obviouisly after the "L" series neck plates were finished)
Immediately I can see two possibilities: (1) given the guard is repro, the rest of the guitar may have more issues than what is initially obvious and so we cannot rely on anything (2) the seller has missread/missunderstood the serial no and thought that 112978 actually is L12978
any thoughts ?
http://www.gbase.com/Stores/Gear/GearDe ... em=1540226
So whenever I see a jm / jag like this I email the seller and ask for the serial no. Recently a Jag came up on GBASE which had "dots and binding" and this morning the seller responded telling me that the serial no. is : L12978
So ... has anyone ever seen an "L" plated Jag or JM which also has "dots & binding" ? I always thought that the binding on the neck came in when they went to neck plates with the "F " (obviouisly after the "L" series neck plates were finished)
Immediately I can see two possibilities: (1) given the guard is repro, the rest of the guitar may have more issues than what is initially obvious and so we cannot rely on anything (2) the seller has missread/missunderstood the serial no and thought that 112978 actually is L12978
any thoughts ?
http://www.gbase.com/Stores/Gear/GearDe ... em=1540226