Originally Posted By: Larry Kehl
But Mac - Gibson claims to have a record of shipping for that SN in '68 (can't mfg in '69 if it shipped in '68).


Back then, it was customary to release next year's model line around the end of the previous year, in time to be in stores for Christmas shoppers. Just as with new cars.

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So even if the Gibson supplied shipping info is in error (aka B.S.), and it probably is, I like my enigmatic story of walnut finishes better! grin


Which is what I was trying to say.

If you think Gibson is bad, Fender was worse. They would dump all the serial numbered neck plates into one steel drawer and the builders would pull 'em out at random. And when the drawer looked like it was getting low on plates, they'd order up a new batch - and dump 'em right on top of the remaining old numbers. That's why we pull the neck on old Strats and Teles, Jaguars, etc. and see who actually wrote in pencil there, a much better dating method. And, of course, those few guits that happen to have Leo's handprinted sig inside go for inordinately higher prices these days.


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And Danny

I do love her a lot. She gets better care now, in her older age, then when she was young and brash!

Larry


As well she should.

I've an old Air Force buddy who always broke his new cars in HARD. Ignoring all that jazz in the manuals and even conventional wisdom, he would pick up a brand new car from the showroom and immediately head out on leave, a cross-country highway trip with the pedal to the metal all the way home.

I was with him in '72 when he picked up a brand new Toyota Corolla and pulled that stunt all the way to his home in Arkansas from Colo Springs. Coming down Raton Pass, he kept the poor thing in the red all the way. Ditto. That car ran like a top for years. I did convince him to change the oil when we got to Arkansas, though.

His cars seemed to outlast everybody else's, with far less drivetrain problems along the way. Go figure.


--Mac

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