Pics of my artisan

[Tom O'Cull]

I have a artisan serial #1005. I got it about 12 years ago & allways thought Gibson should have made this design & just about fell over when I seen it the first time. I have put duncan pickups & sperzel tuners in it. I do have the pick guard but I think it looks better without it. The playability of this guitar is outstanding.
http://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/2748.jpghttp://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/2749.jpg
http://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/2750.jpghttp://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/2751.jpg
http://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/2752.jpg

[Tom O'Cull]

If anyone can tell me how to read the serial # like year, is it #5 or #105? & how many they made in each color that would be great.

[marty carr]

nice,lots of info here at the chat.i'd love to find a gold top.check out the one hagin behind Tom Tedesco in the classic images page.

[Dave Wintz]

That was the only one ever made..Billy Gibbons owns it.

Dave/Robin

[BCRGreg]

I had a Gold Top years ago, musta been a refin. It had all Gibson hardware and pickups.

[marty carr]

well tell billy to post some pics.

[BCRGreg]

Yeah, Dave.

Tell him.

[Ken Jones]

Hey Tom. Sorry for my tardy reply. I've been out of town for the last week or so and had limited access to the internet.

Every Artisan I have seen has the serial number hand written inside the control cavity - except for one, which has a unique history. See the thread here:

http://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/713.html


When I inspected the guitar in the above thread it had the same type of serial number on the back of the headstock as yours does. All of the Artisans with serial numbers inside the control cavity are numbered sequentially from 0001-???. I own 0072 and 0081, which can be seen here:

http://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/6/1488.html


You can do a search on this site fo rmore Artisan info, but here's an old post where I gave a brief overview:

http://robinlovers.com/discus/messages/1292/181.html

[Tom O'Cull]

I looked inside the control cavity & the same # 1005 was hand written.

[B Bath]

Ken will be getting serial # 80 up soon.

[B Bath]

Well here it is.

There is one major differance that you may notice, the four piece top which denotes that this was the NAMM show Guitfiddle for that year.

Thanks Dave will be intouch.

[Tom O'Cull]

Sweet guitar!

Dave sent me some info on my guitar a while back. Here is my email to him with his responce,



I have a Robin Artisan guitar & am looking for some info on it. I have had it since 1994 & this is a great guitar, no way I would ever sell it. It is sn#1005 which is stamped on the back of the head & hand written inside the control cavity. It also has written under the bridge pickup CS. I would like to know




what # built it is, -----------#5

CS...........NOT SURE

what factory---------JAPAN

year it was made. --------1985

LOOKS GOOD....ALL YOU NEED IS A PICKGUARD.

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

DAVE/ROBIN

[BCRGreg]

CS...Cherry Sunburst.

[Tom O'Cull]

Took some new pics outside this summer.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/cousingrandpa/My%20Guitars/2009_0915Robin0004a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/cousingrandpa/My%20Guitars/2009_0915Robin0003b.jpg

[Dallas]

Lord that's fine!