Hello everyone! This is my first post on any forum of any kind so I am truly a newbie. If I am not following protocol just let me know. I have just purchased a JP6 BFR Koa top gold hardware, ebony fretboard. I don’t see anything custom about it. My serial number is G49404. Any ideas? Thanks for any help. Dave.
Custom made on my neck plate
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Cenobyte
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It's a BFR so it should have a Ball Family Reserve inlay on the 12th fret... BFR's tend to have the best of the best figured woods, and tops/paint jobs that are limited in nature, a little extra attention to detail etc. They aren't custom made per-say, they're just fancier versions of regular production runs at the end of the day.
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Pete is pretty good at decyphering these things:
Serial # G49404
Manufactured September 27th, 2011
Build Code 962-KB-J8-00-BB-GD
Model BFR Petrucci
Color Island Burst Koa
Pickguard No Pickguard
Hardware Gold Hardware
Glenn |B)
Serial # G49404
Manufactured September 27th, 2011
Build Code 962-KB-J8-00-BB-GD
Model BFR Petrucci
Color Island Burst Koa
Pickguard No Pickguard
Hardware Gold Hardware
Glenn |B)
Thanks everyone. Am I correct to assume that just because the neck plate is stamped “custom made” doesn’t necessarily mean that it was a special order 1 of 1 ? At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter. I love everything about the guitar and I’m not looking to sell or trade it. I was just wondering if it affects the value positive or negative. Dave.
spychocyco
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I've seen Custom Made plates a few times, and I'm not sure what it means. EBMM doesn't have a custom shop, so any one-off custom order would have been either an artist guitar or for a special event. My 1-of-1 was a NAMM display and doesn't have the Custom Made stamp.
jones4tone
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The 20th Anniversary Silhouette offering featured Custom Made neck plates, and those certainly weren't one-offs. Sometimes I think it was just a marketing decision to appoint a special run that way. My son has a NAMM one-off from a few years back, and there's not any such special designation on it, so I wouldn't give it too much thought - just enjoy playing the guitar.
beej
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I believe when you could choose the tops (quilt or flame), as was the case with the 20th and many others, the neck plate would say "Custom Made". So there are a lot of them out there.
jones4tone
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Ahhh. I owned a 20th for a time, but I wasn't the original purchaser, so that fills in a gap for me.
PeteDuBaldo
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This is correct.
Also,
When the BFR instruments first came out they had a special inlay at the 12th fret denoting "BFR" and the neck serial plates were stamped "CUSTOM MADE" - When the 12th fret inlay went away circa 2013 the "BFR" script took the place of "CUSTOM MADE"
I miss the 12th fret marker, I didn't like it at first, but once I had one I loved it!!
Glenn |B)
