Here is another picture of the 1980 F.100 (right) with my 2012 Tribute Legacy (made in Indonesia)
When I bought the F.100 in 1989 it had already been stripped and painted several times.
In 1992 I removed all the paint from the body and finished the bare wood with clear-coat.
Danley,
The F.100 body is three (or more?) pieces of poplar wood.
One piece has a slanted color change in the wood grain that is accented by the adjacent pieces (<right to left).
It looks like an attempt was made to match the wood grains even though this body was intended for a solid finish.
Formerly a Candy Apple Red Metallic finish or some other dark red metallic color.
I prefer the way it looks now but it really could use a professional refinish and reassembly (I'm no Luthier).
I've only had the SC-3 a few weeks so I haven't tinkered with it yet but I will inspect it some more and post photos.
The SC-3 is great guitar and it made the decision to order THIS reissue SC-2 last Sunday very easy
CLF59695 Black Reissue SC-2 with body contours, satin Maple neck with Rosewood fretboard, creme pickup covers and the DF Vibrato System
The only thing missing was the Trem Bar but I have a Tribute bar that fits just fine for now.
This was the used one on GCs website that had been additionally marked down but it appears to be brand new.
Black is good on any G&L I’d love either SC2 . Which JCM900 are you using - Dual Reverb, Mk iii, SLX? I’ve only recently got ‘into’ Marshalls after purchasing a ‘dreaded’ JCM2000 TSL 602 combo.
drjho7 wrote:Production of 1st body style SC-2 was summer ‘82 to winter ‘83
Thank you. I'm going by what the Reverb listing had as a date but I trust the members of this group to know true history.
I hope to get actual neck and body dates from this SC-2 and the SC-3 eventually.
Danley wrote:Which JCM900 are you using - Dual Reverb, Mk iii, SLX? I’ve only recently got ‘into’ Marshalls after purchasing a ‘dreaded’ JCM2000 TSL 602 combo.
I'll need to check on it.
I did try to price one on ebay after a few nights using it but found there were many versions of the JCM900 (duh)
and I needed to take note of the exact one I was using before I could get an accurate idea for prices.
I've since forgotten about it and haven't been to that practice space since November.
Here is a better photo of my SC-2 and SC-3 pair.
The SC-3 I bought last September and it really turned me on to this style of G&L.
I then found a used SC-2 reissue a month later and thought I was done buying guitars for awhile...
But all I did was OBSESS over SC-2s and had to rush to open a Reverb account when I saw this one last week.
I’d love either SC2 . Which JCM900 are you using - Dual Reverb, Mk iii, SLX? I’ve only recently got ‘into’ Marshalls after purchasing a ‘dreaded’ JCM2000 TSL 602 combo.
