Kelly Professional STD question

[Cam1936]

Hey everyone,

I recently bought a Kelly Professional STD. The guy I bought it from said it was a 1994, which would make sense. The serial # however is J 0007XX which is a sticker on the back of the headstock.

This would make it a 1990 according to the information I have seen on this forum about the Professional series serial #s. However, I have also read that the STD professionals didn't start until 1993 and ended in 1995.

I checked the neck pocket and the neck is stamped "KE STD" and pocket "KL STD 3-1"

Pickups are "JH-2 10•8" and "J-50 N 10•2"

No date stamps anywhere.

Any thoughts?

[VeeMan]

According to the Jackson 1993 catalog

http://support.jacksonguitars.com/catalogs/us/JacksonCharvel1993_catalog.pdf

The Kelly was only available as a Custom Shop guitar before 1993.

Check out page 27 of that PDF.

[Cam1936]

According to the Jackson 1993 catalog

http://support.jacksonguitars.com/catalogs/us/JacksonCharvel1993_catalog.pdf

The Kelly was only available as a Custom Shop guitar before 1993.

Check out page 27 of that PDF.

Good info. If you look in the 90/91 catalog, the only guitars in the professional series are the PRO models, so it would make sense my Kelly STD is a 94, but I wonder why the serial # starts with a 0.

[Mudlark]

Those stickers weren't date coded and there's no way to de-code them to my knowledge.
They were used on models without a neck plate in the mid -90s, so it'd be one of the couple years the STD was offered.

[Cam1936]

That makes sense. Thank you!