Serial Number

[Gorm Gorm]

I've removed the pick guard, got my flex shaft grinder out with micro tools (like the dentist uses) and lowered the grooves of my nut, adjusted truss rod and saddle/bridge, detuned half step and play .09 strings. Great guitar. Next planning on thinning the neck and invading the cut-away by an inch (basically moving the the cut-away distally, toward the knobs) to allow access to the upper frets...I have big hands. Also, smoothing the neck joint, making the neck have a 'ramp' transition (smoother) than the flat spot of the neck's back at the body joint. I'm a finish carpenter and I've had this guitar for years, and will reuse parts that I take off and match the stain and finish through trial and error. Love it. I put custom Amalfitano pick-ups in it myself, the lack pick-up covers, which is the look I like. He's a custom pick-up maker in Dallas, TX.

 

I'm just too lazy to look up the serial number. Huge articles on the whole process, would appreciate the date of this:

 

90800611

(Headstock of Les Paul Standard, cherry sunburst)

 

Thanks.

 

Les Paul Standard

JS1200 Ibanez (autographed and drawn on by Joe when I met him)

[stein]

you haven't even said what it is? just a number is not much good. and reading what you want to do, you might want to check that. if it is, say, a les paul, i don't think the guitar will take removing those areas of wood without the neck snapping off at the joint.

[pippy]

Hi and welcome.

 

It only takes about a minute to date a Les Paul but, then again, you do need to know where to look...

 

This is from the guitatdaterproject site. It's usually spot-on.

 

Your guitar was made at the

Nashville Plant, TN, USA

March 21st, 1990

Production Number: 311

 

P.

[Gorm Gorm]

Thanks.

 

I did have a problem with the volume pot. Instead of replacing it, I took it apart. Cleaned all the parts and wiped them down with denatured alcohol. Put it back together, and the volume knob did not make any noise and worked perfectly. I used 1000 grit flexible sandpaper and cleaned the areas where the metal touche metal.