Serial no. identifying 90's Jackson Professional?

[freakmatt]

I've just bought a Jackson Professional guitar. From my back issue of the 1993 catalogue it looks undoubtedly like a Stealth EX. The seller of the guitar bought it new mid nineties but doesn't know the model, can I confirm the guitars model and age from it's serial number? Thanks all, Matt

[Newc]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professional?

Year only for the serial number.

[freakmatt]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professional?

Thanks that's useful to know. Next question - how do I tell the year from the serial no.?
Matt

[mstraughen]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professio

The first two numbers will identify the last two digits of the year, e.g. 93xxxx = 1993

[freakmatt]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professio

Thank you.
Matt

[Tekky]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professio

A common misconception of new users is that all it takes to identify a model is a serial number. This is not the case. To identify a model, details of the guitar in question need to be given.

[Newc]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professio

Does any guitar company out there have a serialization scheme that denotes the model, besides Jackson's RR serials? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

[freakmatt]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professio

Yeah I'm aware the serial no. alone will not give all the answers, just hoping for some confirmation. The hardware and design/construction of the guitar point very clearly towards the Stealth EX from the early nineties. At least the year confirms the era.

[Newc]

Re: Serial no. identifying 90\'s Jackson Professio

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The first two numbers will identify the last two digits of the year, e.g. 93xxxx = 1993

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Actually, there wouldn't be a 9 in there until sometime in 1996. Up to that point, the first number (0-5) was the year (1990-1995).