Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:29 pm
Not sure, I think it was around 1995...
3 Z coil PUs, G&L's 2 point trem system, silver sparkle ASAT body, and a neck similar to my Comanche prototype
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yowhatsshakin wrote:Great story Craig. Congrats and what a score
BTW, the neck and body of myy JJ Sig are even further apart, by almost 2 years.
At least I have the stamp but now looking at the picture, I also see black paint residue in the pocket. Were all of the bodies really refinished by Marty instead of finished?
- Jos
Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:40 pm
blargfromouterspace wrote:Very cool, and a great story. Does it play as nice as I imagine?
Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:22 am
Craig wrote:I'm going to query Dave about yours and mine. Perhaps I can find out more about them. Where did you get yours from?
Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:06 pm
yowhatsshakin wrote:BTW, is that one of the chromed JJ neckplates on your JJ Sig? Some months after I purchased mine, I got an unfinished one from Thumbs. It is just a nice little appropriate additional thing to have :
- Jos
Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:12 pm
Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:22 pm
Craig wrote:Your's looks to be Alder
as well, don't you think?
Craig wrote:Yeah, when Dean went to the factory to photo document the Leo and George's blueprints, he
came across these chome JJ neckplates. Dave let him have a couple and Dean gave me one for
my JJ Signature ASAT. Mine is JJ0005 and I replaced the neckplate with the chrome one. Just
kinda completes it.
Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:54 am
Craig wrote:yowhatsshakin wrote:Great story Craig. Congrats and what a score
BTW, the neck and body of myy JJ Sig are even further apart, by almost 2 years.
At least I have the stamp but now looking at the picture, I also see black paint residue in the pocket. Were all of the bodies really refinished by Marty instead of finished?
- Jos
Interesting, Jos. So, I removed the neck on my JJ Signature and this is what I found!
The body date looks to be Nov 25, 1986 and I do see a bit of black on the outer edge of the neck pocket.
The neck date is March 11, 1996, so they are over 9 yrs apart! This guitar was one of John's personal guitars which he got directly from the factory. When I got it from John
it still had the hang tags on it and did not appear to have been played, so it likely lived in the case until we did our trade in 2000. I don't remember whether or not I had to
remove the plastic on the pickguard. Given the body date I immediately thought that the body wood might be Maple, but it looks to be Alder, oh well. Your's looks to be Alder
as well, don't you think?
I checked the G&L Registry and yours and mine are the only ones which have build year dates different on the neck and body (of the ones with dates listed, of course).
I'm going to query Dave about yours and mine. Perhaps I can find out more about them. Where did you get yours from?
yowhatsshakin wrote:This kind of stuff is what makes this forum such a fun place for me. Thanks Craig! Your observations on date stamps in the Registry are indeed intriguing. The body date stamps all are '95 (except for yours) and then our necks seem to be an exception. As I wrote in my entry, it might be that this a repair job. I bet that given there were only about 190 JJ Sigs produced, they might have had a couple of left over decals so it would not be impossible to have such a late neck. On my neck heel you see that some stuff got crossed out and I cannot really make out what it originally said. But again, the neck on mine id of extraordinary quality. And I hope Dave gets back to you about these guitars.
- Jos
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Craig wrote:Given the body date I immediately thought that the body wood might be Maple, but it looks to be Alder, oh well. Your's looks to be Alder
as well, don't you think?
Craig wrote:On mine, Dean pointed out that the body date might just be an error in setting the year on the stamper.
I agree that this could be the case and that would make the build date as Nov. 25, 1995 or 1996.