Which Direction Does The Serial Number Plate Point?
Posted: 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?
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Re: Which Direction Does The Serial Number Plate Point?
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:33 pm
Away
Re: Which Direction Does The Serial Number Plate Point?
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:38 pm
Ditto, that is how it should be.JakeK wrote:Away
Re: Which Direction Does The Serial Number Plate Point?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:24 am
Does anyone have a guitar or bass that has the jack plate's serial number pointing the other way?jps wrote:Ditto, that is how it should be.
Like this one:
- From the Rickenbacker Register, Serial Number FD1117, a 1966 360-12
- From the Rickenbacker Register: Serial Number DA98, a 1964 1998 (Rose Morris)
- Rick-Serial-Number-Plate-Backwards2.jpg (10.95 KiB) Viewed 469 times
- From the Rickenbacker Register: Serial Number 2R063, a 1960 365
Re: Which Direction Does The Serial Number Plate Point?
Posted: 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?
Does anyone know when it turned around?