karstennierhaus
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So it looks inside my ´58 junior
Best regards and happy new year,
Karsten
So it looks inside my ´58 junior
Best regards and happy new year,
Karsten
I got out three double cut Juniors yesterday, including my one with a soap bar.
I couldn't hear any tone differences that were major enough to attribute to the different pickup mounting.
In Karsten's photo, what is the mark in the cavity at lower right? FWIW there appears to be a corresponding mark on the pickup bottom:
Great thread...I still love the mystery stuff! lol
Does anyone have any ideas or theory's why these '58 Jr's never got the 8 in the serial number? I have no clue, I'm sure it could be as simple as a new employee forgot or the stamp was damaged....
I have heard several ideas and had several myself.
But they are just that, ideas.
No definitve info has surfaced.
Thanks Tom, I'm sure it's all conjecture but I'd like to hear your thoughts or ideas why....?
Thanks Tom! I have always assumed it was a similar stamper as you mentioned, I wonder if anyone knows what Gibson actually used to stamp serial numbers??I have never seen the ink stamp they used. I have seen several types of stamps [used a few in my teens at a grocery store]. They often have the numbers on a strip and you move the strip by hand to the next number. These always have blank spots on them, and it would be very simple to move the "year digit" to a spot that had no number at all.
Or it is also possible it was damaged.
I cannot think of a [good] reason why they might do this on purpose and I therefore think it might have been an oversight [of some kind] by someone new to stamping the numbers.
These serial numbers are quite different in font and font size than the FON stamps and also the stamps on the paper labels.
The strangest thing I have seen is that most [if not all] the 4 digit guitars have soapbars under the dog ear covers.
There are several noticable anomolies with the ink stamp numbers. I doubt we will ever solve some of them.
Old thread but here's another example:
Old thread but here is another '58 on eBay: