Question about serials on a JS1200

mnit1965 · Aug 13, 2015

I'm a complete newbie regarding JS guitars.

I've found one JS1200 for sale for a good price and I have a question:
- is it normal that the serial on the back of the headstock to be different from the one on the neck plate? Should these be matched?

headstock: F060XXXX
neckplate: 015XXX

I was just wondering if this is a legit 1200 as the seller does not know much about it (and so do I, I'm just thinking getting my first JS

)

lerxst6 · Aug 13, 2015

Totally normal, headstock is the more meaningful serial number - so that is 2006.

Rich has the best info:
http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/reference/dating.htm

OCDemon · Aug 13, 2015

The neck plate number is called a J Plate and it says how many JSs have been made so that one is 15,000 whatever JS made since they started. Cool that they have that I think. They used to have a J before the number but they eventually abandoned that.

Sean777 · Aug 13, 2015

My JS6 has no serial but a J plate of 4065 I think.. What was cool is there was one on eBay that was 4066.... It's 'big brother!'

OCDemon · Aug 13, 2015

Oh yeah the earlier JSs don't have serial numbers. I have JS1 #214 and my other JS1 is 2 hundred something as well. That's as low as my J plates go.

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