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Originally Posted by targa911S
well. I'm waiting to do the clear pending my decision on the serial number debacle. I'm trying to decide what to do about the serial number. The break went right through it, so it was destroyed. 1976 was the only year that gibson used a decal on the t-birds. I called the repair and restoration dept. and they told me that they don't do decals anymore. They also said that they have no way a of verifying the number so I was S.O.L. I asked what they would do if they could verify it and they said they would just stamp the number in like all the rest of the T-Birds. Well hell I can do that. I have the same size and font number stamps. The a few days ago I got an e mail for the head of the same department saying they could do it, if they could verify the number some how, for $75.00 + shipping both ways. That would be $80 round trip.+ insurance. So I'm torn between doing it myself and them doing the same thing for a lot of money with no guarantee that they could verify the number.
Shielding? Maybe.
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You just have to ask yourself what is a COA worth on this instrument. (I guess that's what you're doing.) A naive thought - would a copy of this thread with all pictures accomplish almost the same thing?
PS Thanks for sharing your labor. I love this kind of stuff.