As every Jackson serial number deciphering source will tell you. So the fact that the serial starts with that could be indicative of the year.or it could not. I want to say that on the basis of the yellowed headstock logo, the classic 'not particularly appealing printed top', and the plate serial I would be more inclined to say it's a 97 MF one.Ĭlick to expand.Well, that's not helped by the fact that sometimes the number it starts with is the year, but it's not a convention Jackson stuck to with any regularity. I don't remember off the top of my head what year they started doing quartersawn necks, so that may or may not be something that leans it one way or the other. I'm leaning towards the older one on the basis of the flaming looking more like the '97 ones, which weren't from a particularly desirable era. People do do it, but I have no idea why.Įver since they started doing the MF ones there are a bunch of ones out there that don't quite check out because the stock models didn't have those features, but the '97 Musicians Friend catalog ones pop up all the time. There are a lot of Jacksons out there with wrong years, but if you are gong to list a wrong year, 1997 is like, the least appealing one you could do. There are actually a lot of '97s out there though. And the MF variations are not in the catalogs and can throw people for a loop, but that definitely looks like an older one to me.

Click to expand.Yeah, it's really really hard to say, could go either way.

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