Hi everybody, I'm totally new here and trying to get some information regarding the above mentioned guitar serial Number 174425. A friend of mine (who is not a guitarist) is selling this guitar and I've been doing my best to get some information in order to suggest him a reasonable and acceptable price. I brought the guitar to my local dealer here in Geneva - Switzerland, but although at a first sight the guitar seems to be completely original apart from the fact that the frets and the nut have been changed, for the time being he's unable to come up with some evaluation, because of the following "weirdness" :
The inlays on the fretboard are not rectangular but parallelograms, but he doesn't think that the fretboard has been changed/replaced.
Would you guys know whether Gibson has built ES-330-TDs with parallelogram inlays, or what the exact config and infos on the Serial Number 174425 are.
I'm sorry for not being able to post pictures now (the guitar is with my dealer for the time being), but I will as soon as I can.
Thanks for any input or hints.
Have a nice day,
Taco