Ok, I'll go first.

[Phil Maneri]

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.

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?