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I'm currently having a '64 450/6 restored that was purchased as a husk from our friend Gibson Dependable. Some of you might remember it being on eBay before it was parted out...had that weird see-through pickguard (it's in the registry in all its glorious weirdness: http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... 6order%3D1). Anyways, aside from the body pretty much everything else will be non-original, so I thought I'd poll the audience on a couple matters:

1) The original serial number for this guitar was DI 268, before the tailpiece was pillaged and most likely lost for all eternity. Would it be wrong/fraud/horrible/whatever to have the original serial number stamped onto the replacement tailpiece?

2) When the resto's all tidied up, what exactly should this guitar be "called" - a 1964 450/6 (restored)? Is it even a 1964 instrument at this point? Maybe just 450/6 SPC, or something along those lines? Partsenbacker?? Just looking for an appropriate name for this little orphan (and no, not "Annie" )

Thanks all

Call it a '64 450/6. It's still a 450/6, and still originally from 1964...if you ever sold it, you'd qualify its age by saying it's been restored, and list everything that's been changed on it.

That's my opinion, anyway.