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If anyone who hasn't heard one previously wants to:
Absolutely it is the original pickguard! The F-40 had this pickguard until about 1957. So it could be a 1956 model. (EDIT: 54/55, see post #12 from Hans below).What's that flat-top he's playing?...pretty darn sure it's not the original 'guard.
Like the mythical check, "The brownie's in the mail."Absolutely it is the original pickguard! The F-40 had this pickguard until about 1957. So it could be a 1956 model.
Yep, that, with the "lips" and early "G" and bound fretboard with block markers were the identifying details.Good eye, Ralf - I can see the top of a ghost label in the last photo!
walrus
That's not a ghost label. Check Hans book page 28, it is the "guitar silhouette label" as used until 1959. The ghost label was introduced in 1959.I can see the top of a ghost label in the last photo!
That's not a ghost label. Check Hans book page 28, it is the "guitar silhouette label" as used until 1959. The ghost label was introduced in 1959.
Ralf
Thanks again. I just recognized "old" and I think some of us just habitually call 'em "ghosts".
Just comes to mind more readily than "silhouette", I think.
Since it was halloween you are forgiven... But they look quite different.......I think some of us just habitually call 'em "ghosts".
What caught me is:
What's that flat-top he's playing?
Got a virtual California brownie for the first correct answer.
Here's another shot:
And there's enough clues there to nail it down to one possibility.
And just to help out, pretty darn sure it's not the original 'guard.
Absolutely it is the original pickguard! The F-40 had this pickguard until about 1957. So it could be a 1956 model
Ralf
Thanks! Now I see that I missed the rounded fingerboard inlays. Not sure what else points to earlier than 56. The simple G started around 1955 I thought.It's earlier than that! Most likely a late-1954 or very early 1955.
Now I see that I missed the rounded fingerboard inlays. Ralf
O.k., now that I looked again on the large picture I found you are absolutely right...My bad.No, the fingerboard inlays on that model were not rounded!