PC3 Chlorine : brown or blue back

[zebutcher]

Hi there guys,

I'm looking for a Chlorine Jackson PC3 but i find a weird thing : some have brown back and other have blue back.

Any information about this ? Maybe it's related to the year ?





They are difficult to find too ...

[toejam]

Did they make them with koa bodies, too, or just mahogany? That one is a later model since it's got the JT580LP Floyd. The first couple years had the Wilkinson.

[zebutcher]

I think they only made it with mahogany body. It's only Made in Japan so Koa is a bit too exotic for this import production.

[toejam]

Yeah, that makes sense. Weird about some having brown or black backs, though. I know the PC1 was also available with koa at some point.

[zebutcher]

Yeap pretty rare bird too.

It's brown mahogany or transparent blue back. Very strange for an import production ...

[rjohnstone]

I never paid attention to the backs of the PC3, but it appears to be the later models that had the natural backs.
This is just my observation based on a few searches through old pics.
The one with the natural back in the pic above is a 2001, which was the last year of production.

[zebutcher]

It make sense. I was thinking something like this.

[Mudlark]

There are some early Wilkinson bridge models with the natural back on google images.

[zebutcher]

Yeah with au natural it seems logical.

[Mudlark]

[zebutcher]

Oh ok. Same thing on green... Things getting weird...

[rjohnstone]

Interesting indeed.
I've only ever owned the Au natural and Solar versions.