I got a hand-me-down skeleton of one from my uncle. It's a '67, but it's nothing but wood and frets right now. I don't know how you found out the year, but mine had absolutely no markings on it left, since it had been spraypainted, stripped and then varnished with furniture stuff losing all plastic, metal and electronic pieces along the way, thus I had to take off the neck and look at the factory stamp there. It's my (too) slow developing project...I look forward to the day of playing it.