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has crown inlay ----- BUT : acc. to LSLP the crown inlay was changed in mid June `68. So any crown cannot be made in August...!?
LP on TRC
pots are 6745
Caps are Black Beauties
heel is big , not too round, not as square and small as later
BUT: the serial is beginning with 970... ...
hello,
I am doing a little research about the dates of early ´68 Standards .
I also own a very early one and I want to find out when it was made.
So please allow some question :
Why do think it's made in August ´68 ?
Do you know the first two or three digits of the serial-no?
Is there a...
Yes you are correct. Short guards. On most clips Jorma Kaukonen played the one with the black reflectors, on "oncle sam blues" both had 345´s , but switched.
Paul K. is playing the one with the black reflectors here. That one (black r´ s) seems to have fox ears, what is mostly seen in 1967.
So...
In Woodstock Jefferson Airplane performed with two (!) black ES 345 . Both with Bigsby´s.
Are there any Information about those guitars ? One seems to have the lower Crown Inlay and Grovers and gold reflector knobs.
The one from P. Kantner has black bonnets.
Are black 345´s known in the sixties...
Just a quick question.
Is it possible that 1967 ES guitars had no shielding cans around the pots ?
Was the use of those cans stopped at any date ?
Thank you !
Mine is not a second.
The one in the OP picture, I can`t tell . The seller did not respond to my question concerning the back story of the guitar. His picture of the back of headstock is not of good quality, the ser.-no. hardly visible. I cannot make out any appearance of a "second" mark. My...