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Originally Posted by Michael Holden
yea that's where the controversy comes in to play. The neck stamp is like none anybody has ever seen. It's usually something like 10345-0442 and so on. Mine is 63-0244. I took it to a luthier and he said he THINKS it's a 1973. Just because the Tugbar is on the "G" string side. he said in '74 they switched it to the "E" string side. But he cannot decipher the neck stamp.
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He's right. That serial plate could be on anything from '72-'74. The tug bar moved in '74. The red stamping on the end of the early 70's necks are at this point still undecipherable. What are the pot dates?
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