I still have a few oddball questions with regard to my 1961 ES-345. First, I read somewhere that the 1961 ES-345 was the only one with the parallelogram in the first fret, but looking around the web, I found several 1961's which did not have that marker in the first fret. So what is the answer? Which ES models had the parallelogram in the first fret?
Second question. If I look really closely at the neck, it is possible to see (but barely), small, round wooden plugs between the two halves of the parallelograms. It looks like the fretboard was intended to be a dot neck, but that it just got repurposed in the factory for the parallelograms. I don't seem to be allowed to post attachments, unfortunately, or I would send a photo.
Second question. If I look really closely at the neck, it is possible to see (but barely), small, round wooden plugs between the two halves of the parallelograms. It looks like the fretboard was intended to be a dot neck, but that it just got repurposed in the factory for the parallelograms. I don't seem to be allowed to post attachments, unfortunately, or I would send a photo.