stagekraft
New Member
Hey All,
I'm a noob to this site, I ran across it as I was looking for some info on an SG that I have.
I'm more of an LP guy, and I came across this SG quite by accident.
I don't really have any questions at this point, but I thought it would be fun to share this story.....
About 10 years ago, my son was a senior in high school, and he was hanging around with a girl (just friends) who lived with her mom in a rented house about a half mile from me.
Seems they had to move, and were selling some things to come up with some cash.
One evening my son brought this girl over to the house, and she had a guitar body that "one of her mom's boyfriends" had left in a closet (and it was just that, a body, no hardware, no electronics, no covers, etc),
my son had told her that I might buy it as I was into guitars.
Well, one look and I knew what it was, but I looked it over as if I really wasn't interested.
The neck looked straight, hardly any fret wear, but the body had a few dings in it,
I had no clue what she thought it was worth, so I told her I could give her $50 for it.
Obviously she thought that was rightious bucks and took the fifty.
(hmmm, was that wrong of me??)
At the time I really didn't have the cash to get the "right parts" for it, so I cobbled it together with some tuners, pickups, tune-o-matic parts and wiring I had lying around, I bought an aftermarket pickguard and truss rod cover off ebay, fab'd a cover for the wiring cavity out of a piece of stainless steel sheet I had.
I strung it up, seemed to play pretty good, but I really didn't have a need for it at the time, so I packed it away with my other closet guitars for future evaluation......
So I recently dug it out and started doing some research on the year and model.
A lookup of the serial number, 82018584, tells me the guitar was made at;
Nashville Plant, TN, USA
July 20th, 1988
Production Number: 84
And comparing the body style to others I've found at this forum and others websites, it seem that what I have is a 1988 '62 Reissue.....
And from what I've read, that seems to be a well respected model to have....
I think I'll start looking at finding some period correct parts for it.....
Regards,
John
I'm a noob to this site, I ran across it as I was looking for some info on an SG that I have.
I'm more of an LP guy, and I came across this SG quite by accident.
I don't really have any questions at this point, but I thought it would be fun to share this story.....
About 10 years ago, my son was a senior in high school, and he was hanging around with a girl (just friends) who lived with her mom in a rented house about a half mile from me.
Seems they had to move, and were selling some things to come up with some cash.
One evening my son brought this girl over to the house, and she had a guitar body that "one of her mom's boyfriends" had left in a closet (and it was just that, a body, no hardware, no electronics, no covers, etc),
my son had told her that I might buy it as I was into guitars.
Well, one look and I knew what it was, but I looked it over as if I really wasn't interested.
The neck looked straight, hardly any fret wear, but the body had a few dings in it,
I had no clue what she thought it was worth, so I told her I could give her $50 for it.
Obviously she thought that was rightious bucks and took the fifty.
(hmmm, was that wrong of me??)
At the time I really didn't have the cash to get the "right parts" for it, so I cobbled it together with some tuners, pickups, tune-o-matic parts and wiring I had lying around, I bought an aftermarket pickguard and truss rod cover off ebay, fab'd a cover for the wiring cavity out of a piece of stainless steel sheet I had.
I strung it up, seemed to play pretty good, but I really didn't have a need for it at the time, so I packed it away with my other closet guitars for future evaluation......
So I recently dug it out and started doing some research on the year and model.
A lookup of the serial number, 82018584, tells me the guitar was made at;
Nashville Plant, TN, USA
July 20th, 1988
Production Number: 84
And comparing the body style to others I've found at this forum and others websites, it seem that what I have is a 1988 '62 Reissue.....
And from what I've read, that seems to be a well respected model to have....
I think I'll start looking at finding some period correct parts for it.....
Regards,
John
