I’ll take some more pictures later when I’m back home. Thanks for the info so far on these! I’ve been casually searching for information for 10 years on this guitar with no luck. Google let me down ;). All I knew about it before is I loved playing it from the first time I picked it up and the action was perfect to the extent I don’t really have to think about what my left hand is doing. My other guitars all have different action’s and unique sounds to them, but I still always come back to the Series A when I just want to play.

The paint job on my guitar was actually the first paint work I ever did, even before I painted a sheet of drywall. It was a summer project when I was 21. After I sanded it down, it was many, many light and thin layers of the dark green flecked automotive spray paint followed by probably 15-20 very thin and lights layers of the clear-coat. I was pretty happy with the outcome, especially from less than $50 in automotive spray paint and spray clear coat 😉

Where did you come across both of your Series A’s?

EDIT: Double post

I have one of the strat style and have never been able to find any info. Your post here is the first pics of seen in my searches. I know my Series A was bought used out of a pawnshop by my old friend and room-mate out of high school around 1997-1999. I think he paid $100 for it. I bought it off him for $150 a couple around 2000.

It’s my favourite guitar to play in terms of action. The sound on the stock pickups is decent. Very light action, no buzz. It was originally black in colour. In 2002 I sanded the paint off and repainted it in a dark metallic green-fleck paint. It’s taken a lot of dings and scratches since then. If I ever want to take a guitar with me when I go camping, this is the one. Anytime I randomly pickup one of my guitars to play, this is the one 9 times out of 10.

Colin