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Grabbed this from a buyitnow on ebay like three hours after it was listed. Aparently it's a soloist custom, but supposedly it had a refret in 1990 and in the process of prepping the board, the serial was sanded off. Now the wood there is exactly the same level as the rest of the board, so no reason not to believe this.
here's that text: "Guitar re-fretted in 1990. When I reached the point when I need to refret the guitar, I took it none other than the highly regarded master luther, Carl McIntyre. Carl was mostly a builder of acoustic instruments and his fret work is immaculate. As a result of the fret job there are two things to point out. The “fretcaps” that extend from the binding on the neck around the each end of the frets were filed even/flush to the fingerboard(actually improving the true radius of each fret). Also, during the overall process the serial number indention in front of the 24th fret was sanded off the fingerboard. I was upset over this but it’s clear that this was a bad choice on Jackson’s part for “branding” the guitar in a area that’s known to require some maintenance. All said and done this guitar has fret work that far exceeds most any factory guitar. Since the new frets were installed some wear on the first 5 frets is noticible, otherwise none!"
Also supposedly the serial is/was J01976, but I don't think they had J with five numbers. It can't be j1976, because this one is http://www.usacharvels.com/charvel/n...ls/jfrank.htm. Maybe j0976 or u01976?
Anyway, I'm happy with this so far. I'm still in the process of cleaning it, but I'll let you guys know when I get to play it. In the mean time, any help on finding what year this was made and which factory would be cool.
The mandatory pics:
here's that text: "Guitar re-fretted in 1990. When I reached the point when I need to refret the guitar, I took it none other than the highly regarded master luther, Carl McIntyre. Carl was mostly a builder of acoustic instruments and his fret work is immaculate. As a result of the fret job there are two things to point out. The “fretcaps” that extend from the binding on the neck around the each end of the frets were filed even/flush to the fingerboard(actually improving the true radius of each fret). Also, during the overall process the serial number indention in front of the 24th fret was sanded off the fingerboard. I was upset over this but it’s clear that this was a bad choice on Jackson’s part for “branding” the guitar in a area that’s known to require some maintenance. All said and done this guitar has fret work that far exceeds most any factory guitar. Since the new frets were installed some wear on the first 5 frets is noticible, otherwise none!"
Also supposedly the serial is/was J01976, but I don't think they had J with five numbers. It can't be j1976, because this one is http://www.usacharvels.com/charvel/n...ls/jfrank.htm. Maybe j0976 or u01976?
Anyway, I'm happy with this so far. I'm still in the process of cleaning it, but I'll let you guys know when I get to play it. In the mean time, any help on finding what year this was made and which factory would be cool.
The mandatory pics:
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