50th Anniversary Serial Nos

[wallym]

Does anybody know what Serial Numbers have been used for this release?
There is supposed to be only 500 guitars made.
Mine is a Heritage Cherry Burst with the Serial No: 9 9152
I have seen a Persimmon with S/N 9 98??
Are ther gaps in the number sequence?
I'm guessing that maybe each colour has its own sequence range, if so does anyone know what they are?

[Es Paul]

Originally Posted by wallym

Does anybody know what Serial Numbers have been used for this release?
There is supposed to be only 500 guitars made.
Mine is a Heritage Cherry Burst with the Serial No: 9 9152
I have seen a Persimmon with S/N 9 98??
Are ther gaps in the number sequence?
I'm guessing that maybe each colour has its own sequence range, if so does anyone know what they are?

I'm pretty sure that the first 500 were the Gloss 50th Ann. were numbered from 9 9001 - 9 9500. They were only available in Heritage Cherry and Darkburst. These models came with a 50th Ann. gold cert.

Everything after that is up for grabs. Gibson came out with a dozen other finishes.

[Tim Plains]

Originally Posted by wallym

There is supposed to be only 500 guitars made.

There's "only" 500 finished in Heritage Cherry and Darburst. Realistically, Gibson will probably crank out 2,000 - 3,000 2009 R9s.
I've seen a Washed Cherry 2009 R9 and it had the typical 9912xxx serial number.

Originally Posted by wallym

I'm guessing that maybe each colour has its own sequence range, if so does anyone know what they are?

Good question!! Or how many different ones are there?
The artist models obviously get their own unique serial numbers. I recall seeing a hand-written "prototype" serial number somewhere, then the NAMM guitars had their own serial numbers. Man, I wouldn't be surprised if there were 3,000 R9s made this year.

wallym, let's see a pic of yours.

[wallym]

Here she is

[Sunbury les paul man]

Originally Posted by wallym

Here she is

very nice! howdoes she play?

I've got 9 9077, best guitar I've ever played

[wallym]

She plays good!!
I also have a '77(ish) Custom and a 2000 LP Classic, so the slightly thicker rounder neck profile of the R9 felt a little strange at first.

I'm real happy with her.
Like most of us I suppose this will be the closest we could ever come to owning a real '59.

The next one on my list is a Goldtop. I've wanted a Goldtop for 'so' long but for some reason have never got round to getting one.
So I'm a little jealous.

[slither]

Does anyone one know of, or have the numbers of R9's Gibson make in any given year? I'm just curious.

Or the other Historic models for that matter.