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lbanks
Junior
Username: lbanks

Post Number: 30
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 1:46 pm:   Edit Post

Where should the serial # for Series 1 be? I trying to check out a bass...
bsee
Senior Member
Username: bsee

Post Number: 424
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 1:51 pm:   Edit Post

Depends on the age. Very old instruments have it struck into the top of the headstock. Old, but not that old, have it struck into the fingerboard below the 24th fret. More recent instruments (definitely by 1990) have it engraved into the truss rod cover.

Not sure what they do when you go continuous wood plates - maybe on the back side of the truss rod cover? There should also be at least one number somewhere inside the control cavity.
lbanks
Junior
Username: lbanks

Post Number: 31
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 3:43 pm:   Edit Post

Ok, I don't find one in any of those places; I'm thinking of posting photos, to see if there anyone who recognizes it.
davehouck
Senior Member
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 969
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 - 8:54 am:   Edit Post

Apparently, with the instruments that had the serial number on the fretboard; when an owner would take one to a local shop to have the fretboard replaned, the serial number would be sanded away.
lbanks
Junior
Username: lbanks

Post Number: 32
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2004 - 11:32 am:   Edit Post

I think I found it on the headstock.

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