Do any prs guitars have indented serial numbers?

[Russell]

I am about to buy a Tremonti Artist with an East Indian rosewood neck that has an indented serial number instead of the normal hand written one.

 

[HoovHead]

I have an Artist Package P245 with a rosewood neck and the serial number is stamped along with the year.

 

[Russell]

Thanks HoovHead! I pulled the trigger on it. It looks like that’s common to solid rosewood necks like artist and private stock.

 

[Bowtiefanatc]

All rosewood necks are imprinted

 

[Russell]

All rosewood necks are imprinted

Thanks. I was concerned. I wonder why they do that.

 

[Herr Squid]

That's totally normal. I think because the wood doesn't have a finish sealing the wood, they don't write on it with a pen and make a smeary mess.

 

[Russell]

That's totally normal. I think because the wood doesn't have a finish sealing the wood, they don't write on it with a pen and make a smeary mess.

Oh. That makes sense.

 

[dogrocketp]

Rosewood and cocobolo are very oily, the numbers won’t stick well or last long because of it. That’s why they don’t need finish.

 

[Russell]

Rosewood and cocobolo are very oily, the numbers won’t stick well or last long because of it. That’s why they don’t need finish.

That’s a good explanation.

 

[ViperDoc]

Any neck that is not film-finished, which usually means rosewoods as previously mentioned.