Jackson DK2 MBS / Assembly Year ?

[aberndt]

Hiho @ all,

after some research in this forum i found that my beloved Jackson (i call it excalibur for it was my first guitar in 2001 and all my band mates wanted to play on it) is a Dinky DK2 with MBS (Midnight Blue Sparkle) finish. The serial number is 9629491. So i am very interested in the information in which year my baby was build. So can i get any information from the serial number or from anyone here on the forum ? After reading some old catalogs i think the MBS finish was only available in the year 1998 and 1999 but i am not sure.

Best regards from Germany
Andy

[Mudlark]

Those sequentially numbered serials can be tricky, but according to my list of numbers that were confirmed with neck pocket date stamps 9629xxx should be '98-'99.

96289xx was date stamped 1999 January 7th. You can remove the neck and check your stamps if you like.

[aberndt]

Hi Mudlark, thank you a lot for this information. So according to my guess about the MBS finish i think it must be a 1999 model. In August i will have my next guitar check up (i don't feel save enough to remove the neck for i never done it before and i am afraid, that i turn the screws to hard or do some other dumb failure). My guitar-check-up-master will remove the neck and check the stamps, i will post it so you can complete your list
Do you know if this MBS finish was rarely used ? I checked a lot of Dinkys on Ebay and other selling places but never found another Jackson with this finish.

[Force]

It's pretty hard to do any damage removing the neck, nothing to worry about there. DK2's are awesome fiddles.

[Mudlark]

According to the catalogues MBS was only available during the DK2's first two years of production..'98-'99.

Catalogues contain errors, but it'd be safe to say MBS wasn't used for more than 2-3 years.

[Number Of The Priest]

Would love to see photos of this finish/guitar. I couldn't find any pictures on Google.

[aberndt]

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[aberndt]

Sorry, images are not sooo good, it's just a mobile phone cam.

[Kompis]

just found this post awesome! It's kinda funny we managed to flake of a spot of our finish almost in the same place also. must be a weak spot :P

https://www.jcfonline.com/forum/equipment/import-jackson-guitars/2541133-help-to-identify-model-color