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Location: Lake Forest, CA | I'm setting the action on a guitar for a friend. It was originally a 1983 Collectors Edition that he bought new.
Along the way, the sound board got dinged up and a luthier replaced the body with one that has a super-shallow bowl, bolt-on neck, internal truss-rod adjuster, cut-away body, MOP rosette, OP-24 and A-bracing. The luthier pulled the original sticker off the inside of the bowl and stuck down the 1983 CE sticker in its place.
I know the Legend & CL used A-bracing, but did the Balladeer/Custom Balladeer use A-bracing?
Edited by DanSavage 2014-04-29 12:43 PM
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | Curiouser and curiouser...
In checking the action I found that my friends guitar needed a neck reset.
I pulled off the neck and found this underneath the fretboard extension.
It looks like either 1864-5 or 1867-5.
Underneath is, what looks like a serial number, 200241.
Both are written underneath the top finish and there does not appear to have been any sort of repair to the finish in this area. It looks like this was written, then the bare wood was masked off and the black finish and top clear coat was sprayed.
The serial number dates it to 1979. But, there was no 18XX anything in 1979 with a shallow bowl, OP-24, cut-away body and A-bracing.
Weird. 
Edited by DanSavage 2014-05-02 8:14 PM
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Location: Tennessee | If I'm not mistaken, the 1983 Collector was the first SSB guitar. So 1867-5 kinda makes sense.
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | Thanks.
It would except that this body was not the original body that came with the guitar. As I wrote, a luthier mated a different body to the 1983 Collector's neck.
The 1983 Collectors had what was known as a barn burst. This one has a black sound board.
Photos of the 1983 CE show an abalone rosette, like the CL and this one has a MOP rosette.
Edited by DanSavage 2014-05-03 12:08 AM
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Location: Utah | Could the serial number be a date code? The 41st week of 2002? |
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | Maybe. I hadn't thought of that.
Of course, it could also be 2002/4/1 or 4-1-2002. (April Fools!)
LOL!
Actually, the later date makes sense. I think they were using wood kerfing back in the late 1970s but, this bowl has molded plastic kerfing.
Also, whomever glued the top down was very generous with the glue as there is, what I would consider to be, an excessive amount of squeeze-out.
Edited by DanSavage 2014-05-03 5:39 PM
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