Which Direction Does The Serial Number Plate Point?

LenMinNJ · Post by **LenMinNJ** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:42 pm

On your Rickenbacker guitar or bass, is the top of the jackplate's serial number facing toward the strap knob or away?

JakeK · Post by **JakeK** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:33 pm

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:38 pm

JakeK wrote:Away

Ditto, that is how it should be.

LenMinNJ · Post by **LenMinNJ** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:24 am

jps wrote:Ditto, that is how it should be.

Does anyone have a guitar or bass that has the jack plate's serial number pointing the other way?

Like this one:

Or this one:

: From the Rickenbacker Register: Serial Number DA98, a 1964 1998 (Rose Morris); Rick-Serial-Number-Plate-Backwards2.jpg (10.95 KiB) Viewed 465 times

Or this one:

LenMinNJ · Post by **LenMinNJ** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:38 pm

It looks like the serial number plates originally faced the strap knob, and at some point it turned around.

Does anyone know when it turned around?

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