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Koubayashi wrote:I checked the serial carefully
It starts with either a 3, 5, 6 or 8.
I can't decide if it's a 3 or 8 or a 5 or 6.
There are good arguments for every number
The serial number looks a bit smeared which could be the result of a refin but I can't see any other signs of a refin. And I have seen smeared serial numbers on tonnes of Japanese Lesters.
And what is up with the one piece body???
Btw, no FEB after 95? We both know that the Japanese makers were seriously inconsistant so I don't take that as a truth
Which leads to another question: are all ObG supposed to be finished in nitro? I have read that they should but I have had both reissues and "Standards" which were finished in poly.
This is not an ObG. This is an Orville.villager wrote:talking about ObG and orvilles here,
show me an ObG with a 6xxxx serial number, or an orville with fret binding, and then I will believe it, until then I stick with my statement above.
UV for checking the finish and look for seems (not for nitro but for signs of refin).villager wrote:your missing my point, ObG with fret binding were not made after 1995, if this has evidence of fret binding, as you say, and a nitro finish, as you say you have already tested for, then it points to it originally being destined to be an ObG..... probably..... as no orvilles have ever been seen with fret binding to my knowledge, this supports the theory, and therefore the mention of ObG is surely relevent to the post isn't it?
why do you need a uv light? i thought you had alredy tested it!
we can only be more certain that it was originally intended to be an ObG/leftover if we get the serial right. So that's worth another try.Koubayashi wrote:UV for checking the finish and look for seems (not for nitro but for signs of refin).villager wrote:your missing my point, ObG with fret binding were not made after 1995, if this has evidence of fret binding, as you say, and a nitro finish, as you say you have already tested for, then it points to it originally being destined to be an ObG..... probably..... as no orvilles have ever been seen with fret binding to my knowledge, this supports the theory, and therefore the mention of ObG is surely relevent to the post isn't it?
Why do you need a uv light? i thought you had alredy tested it!
Since it has one piece body and nitro it most surely was to become an ObG.
But why the duce does it say Orville on the head
A factory leftover? Made for another brand but branded Orville by mistake? Perhaps it was supposed to become an Epiphone Elitist?
Just looking for marks in the woods. Also good for checking neck repairs.jacco wrote:we can only be more certain that it was originally intended to be an ObG/leftover if we get the serial right. So that's worth another try.Koubayashi wrote:UV for checking the finish and look for seems (not for nitro but for signs of refin).villager wrote:your missing my point, ObG with fret binding were not made after 1995, if this has evidence of fret binding, as you say, and a nitro finish, as you say you have already tested for, then it points to it originally being destined to be an ObG..... probably..... as no orvilles have ever been seen with fret binding to my knowledge, this supports the theory, and therefore the mention of ObG is surely relevent to the post isn't it?
Why do you need a uv light? i thought you had alredy tested it!
Since it has one piece body and nitro it most surely was to become an ObG.
But why the duce does it say Orville on the head
A factory leftover? Made for another brand but branded Orville by mistake? Perhaps it was supposed to become an Epiphone Elitist?
Please explain how do you check the finish for a refin with UV light?
So the Elitist is excluded from the list of "prime suspects" then.villager wrote:i think elitists were a fair bit later, orvilles i have seen as late as 97 but i am not sure when the elitists started, the original epiphones were orvilles through and through, they just changed the name, but they were poly, i think the elitists started in 99, and were in nitro, but theres a 2 year gap..
I am lazy to upload on botophucket.Udonitron wrote:What about pics Koub!? You always say you are going post pics and then forget LOL
