Has anyone figured out what was behind the JH-2 with long serial numbers?
Has anyone figured out what was behind the JH-2 with long serial numbers?
I bought it back in Germany and the guy at the guitar shop told me the same story everyone was told (build from spare parts) but I doubt it. I do not really know if the 5 digit serial # are sequential for all explorer shaped guitars or for all ESP guitars that are manufactured. I actually found only 5 different JH-2 with the 5 digit serials so far, but with the serials spread over a range of 1000: 35140, 35689, 35719, 36137, 36168. It's hard to believe that those are the only 5 that were supposedly manufactured. Somehow you do not get any information on them.
Mine is the S/N 36137. Bought it in Germany too. It came with the COA saying it is one out of the 200 JH-2. There is a label on the rearside of the headstock "made in Japan". I heard that most of the JH-2 have been built by ESP in the US. Maybe the long S/N are for those which have been manufactured in Japan, but I am not sure.
Come on! Anyone?