#MARTIN GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS NQ5461 SERIAL NUMBER#
#MARTIN GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS NQ5461 MAC#

Serial number 8349 for example, would be the first guitar built in 1899. The number in the left-side column is the year, and the number following the year is the last serial number used in that given year. How can I tell how old my Martin guitar is? What does the E stand for in Martin guitars?.What does the L stand for in Martin guitars?.Where are Martin Backpacker guitars made?.What is the most expensive Martin guitar?.Do all Martin guitars have serial numbers?.How do you read a guitar serial number?.What do the numbers mean on Martin guitars?.When did the Martin Backpacker come out?.How do I find out what year my guitar was made?.How can I tell how old my Martin guitar is?.If this poster is sincerely interested in getting real information about his guitar he simply must find a way to post pictures. Changing or adding to a serial number makes no sense to me. In my admittedly limited experience, luthiers who perform conversions of any sort usually indicate that with glued in paper labels or hand written notes on the underside of the top, or don't bother to note it at all. Either that or you could change the neck and the body, and just keep the tuning machines that's a conversion that would work! I guess you could do it with a neck replacement, but you would end up with a ridiculously long scale length and a top that was very under-braced for the tension that such a long scale would produce if it were tuned to standard pitch.

It concerns me that the 'real pro' this new poster talked with apparently didn't seem to realize that the difference between a 12 fret and a 14 fret is as much in the body, as the neck, and that therefore a conversion makes absolutely no sense. Kovacik Guitars and Fretted Instrument Repair With regard to the D guitar, I am suspicious of what seems to be an unconventional numbering scheme that you have described. Otherwise, without pics it is hard to say what you have. If this was the case with your guitar though, it would say '000-28G' on the neck block. There were precious few 000-28Gs ever made (17 as counted by Longworth, and Matt Umanov currently has one ridiculously clean example of these in his shop) and it would not surprise me to see that some of them were converted. In that case, the conversion can be accomplished very sucessfully and seamlessly, but would still require the replacement of the top with a top braced for steel strings in order to be structurally stable. THE ONE exception is IF the guitar in question was originally a 000-28G, which had a 14 fret BODY with a 12 fret neck. This would end up putting the bridge in a location that would in all liklihood totally miss the bridge plate beneath, and likely result in drilling through the X brace on either side when drilling for bridge pin holes. If you put a 14 fret neck on a 12 fret body the biggest problem issue would be bridge placement, as the 14 fret neck (even with the same scale as the original 12 fret neck ) would move the bridge placement closer to the soundhole. And it is not possible to convert a 12 fretter into 14 frets if the 12 fretter has a true 12 fret body. How do you read a Martin guitar serial number The number in the left-side column is the year, and the number following the year is the last serial number used in that given year.

#MARTIN GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS NQ5461 MAC#

Mac is right about the 000-28 info he offered.

Martin guitar serial numbers nq5461