Old_Ampeg_Guy

BUMPing this for newbies newer than me, or those who may not have seen it yet. Old Ampeg Guy

Yes, the Guitar Dater Project site identified the year as 1996 when I checked it Saturday. I pride myself on my memory, but it's been a while. IIRC, it may have been a Malaysia (or Indonesia?) sticker, but I'm a bit foggy on it because one thing I do recall is removing the sticker shortly after getting it home, so the sticker has not been on the guitar more recently than the purchase date if that recollection is correct. Thanks, Old Ampeg Guy

Yes, Guitar Center. This would have been early April, 1997 IIRC. It was at the beginning of Guitar Center's first stocking of the Juniors, and I believe they were $99.00. FWIW, it is an unbelievably good guitar for the money (the replacement pickups I put in later entirely aside). Old Ampeg Guy

I'll BUMP this. I'm guessing my "Y" serial number prefix for the LP Jr. is still an unknown as of now. Old Ampeg Guy

Sorry--I realize now my post was ambiguous. I meant to say that I figured out the factory for my Les Paul Standard Plus Top, and it's Quingdao. The guitar for which I cannot determine the factory, the Les Paul Jr., bears the following serial number on the neck plate: Y6120308 Thank you! Old Ampeg Guy

Bumping as my first non-introduction post. I figured my factory from the info from the OP--many thanks! (It's Quingdao.) I tried to get the factory info for my Epi LP Jr., but the Guitar Dater Project site told me the "Y" code is not yet in the database. Perhaps some day . . . Old Ampeg Guy