Jay Delaney Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 I have 007 stamped on the fretboard above the 22nd fret. Does anyone know if there is significance or is it something personal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Jay Delaney said: I have 007 stamped on the fretboard above the 22nd fret. Does anyone know if there is significance or is it something personal? Didn't James Bond play one in one of the 300 movies they did? Is it the same stamp font as the serial number? And its a stamp (impression into the wood), and not an inlay? Edited August 10, 2023 by Sgt. Pepper 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 (edited) The sad emoji guy is back. I love this day and age we live in where its just to hard to type words to express what you want to say. Edited August 10, 2023 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 (edited) I don't know, but my research turned up this. A 3 ft man with a tiny guitar sitting on a chair. Edited August 11, 2023 by merciful-evans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 (edited) A young musician called Jimmy Page was a session player with the John Barry Orchestra and played on Goldfinger. He recalled in an interview with GQ: “The full orchestra sounded absolutely amazing, but then Shirley Bassey arrived. Edited August 11, 2023 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 Maybe instead of a factory 2nd its a factory 7th? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 I've never seen nor heard of a stamp on a fretboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 (edited) 16 hours ago, surfpup said: I've never seen nor heard of a stamp on a fretboard. This is the 7th one they did apparently. Maybe they let the new guy have carte blanche on the stamping machine and he confused the fretboard with the headstock. Or Gibson was trying out some variation of their ever evolving serial number system. Can you post a pic so we can see it? Edited August 17, 2023 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 Just now, Karloff said: meaning it got better or worse ? Its hard to say what Jimmy means. It was cool with her singing. I'm going with better? Mr. Page if your out there please expand on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 43 minutes ago, Karloff said: meaning it got better or worse ? if he's said "AND THEN Shirley Basse arrived" it would have implied she made it better. But he said 'but'. So .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 11 minutes ago, fortyearspickn said: if he's said "AND THEN Shirley Basse arrived" it would have implied she made it better. But he said 'but'. So .... It could go either way. And he did say the full orchestra sounded absolutely amazing . . . and then the rest of his comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvi Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 way to derail guys...amazing really sorry OP, no info on your inlay from me either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 Q Branch just called. They want their bloody guitar back.😔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, jvi said: way to derail guys...amazing really sorry OP, no info on your inlay from me either... This happens all the time. Someone comes in asks a question and gone like the wind. The OP made one post. Here is the best answer he is gonna get call 1-800- Gibson. Ask them they built it. See how helpful I am. Edited August 18, 2023 by Sgt. Pepper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 1 hour ago, sparquelito said: Q Branch just called. They want their bloody guitar back.😔 I thought Q was that older lady now that did a lot of British TV? No offence to old ladies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 On 8/16/2023 at 8:46 PM, surfpup said: I've never seen nor heard of a stamp on a fretboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 19 minutes ago, merciful-evans said: Darned termites.😔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 I looked up quite a few 1976 Gibson Explorers while researching this question. It seems that Gibson manufactured somewhere in then neighborhood of 1,800 or more Explorers that year. In Black, Natural, and White finishes. About half of those were Limited Edition Explorers. The Limited Edition ones had thick, baseball bat necks, but otherwise nothing special about them. And I cannot find a single one that had numbers pressed into the fingerboard above the 22nd fret. Which leads me to another possibility; Did Gibson allow factory 'seconds' to go out, with sales strictly to trusted vendors, employees and families? If so, maybe those guitars that failed QC might have been numbered like that. I don't know. Maybe I'm just blowing smoke rings here.🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 15 hours ago, jvi said: way to derail guys...amazing really sorry OP, no info on your inlay from me either... Oh, GIBSON Explorers ... I thought we were talking about FORD Explorers. But - it is always cool when someone replies "Sorry, I don't know either." On 8/10/2023 at 10:46 AM, Sgt. Pepper said: The sad emoji guy is back. I love this day and age we live in where its just to hard to type words to express what you want to say. Sad emoji guy - there's only two habitual offenders here. One isn't on this thread. Yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 Just now, fortyearspickn said: Oh, GIBSON Explorers ... I thought we were talking about FORD Explorers. But - it is always cool when someone replies "Sorry, I don't know either." Sad emoji guy - there's only two habitual offenders here. One isn't on this thread. Yet. Words just to hard type. Me use Emoji it easy. I are Millennial. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 Plus - I found Merciful's 3 foot classical James Bond theme guy much more interesting than the OP's question on a 50 year old guitar probably owned by 7 people before him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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