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Duplicate serial numbers
I've been trying to date my mate's ESP M-1 but with little success. The banana headstock puts it mid-late 80s, I think these were repurposed Kramers which ESP were manufacturing for them at the time but there's not much info on the M-1 itself.
Here it is (yes, it's pink)
http://i.imgur.com/2219W9g.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bwqWwfz.jpg
I found this post over on the ESP forums from 2 years ago featuring a similar M-1 and it's even the same pink.
But look! Look at the serial number on it... it's the same as the one I have but it is definitely a different guitar as I have been looking after my mate's one for about 3 years and he had it before that.
What gives?
http://cdn.growassets.net/user_files/esp/user_images/001/991/890/large.jpg?1424017330 http://cdn.growassets.net/user_files/esp/user_images/001/991/888/large.jpg?1424017313
Here it is (yes, it's pink)
http://i.imgur.com/2219W9g.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bwqWwfz.jpg
I found this post over on the ESP forums from 2 years ago featuring a similar M-1 and it's even the same pink.
But look! Look at the serial number on it... it's the same as the one I have but it is definitely a different guitar as I have been looking after my mate's one for about 3 years and he had it before that.
What gives?
http://cdn.growassets.net/user_files/esp/user_images/001/991/890/large.jpg?1424017330 http://cdn.growassets.net/user_files/esp/user_images/001/991/888/large.jpg?1424017313
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Just to add to the confusion . . .
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-esp-m1-electric-guitar-424888713
Reading the post, that one has a serial on the neck plate and it turns out my one does too I just hadn't noticed it.
That one is 01791 and my one is 01794.
Do others put serials on the neck plate?
http://i.imgur.com/C1FaYuG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4BccpeX.jpg
Don't know if any of you can decipher those codes but might be of interest to some.
Found a tasty pickup too and gave it its own thread here...
I've only found a couple online and they are all different - Floyds, set necks, one pickup, two pickups etc.
The one I had (it got collected by its owner tonight) was a bolt-on with vintage trem and had two humbuckers, one a zebra Seymour Duncan JB.
Yours is a right mix-up! Mint headstock, white/cream body, single humbucker... and still a 6246.
I saw somewhere that they may have only done a run of 2000 on the M-1.
Makes a change from trying to date girls, I guess.
At least with a guitar you can pull the g-string without risk of getting slapped in the face. Oh, but since you had no success, don't tell me the ESP gave you the bird. Did you wring it's neck or something?