Here's an early one

[Gino]

https://captain-guitar-lounge.com/produkt/1998-mike-shishkov-custom-57-korina-id-1593/

[soli'd]

would love to hear the story on this! @Northfield

[cynic]

2 minutes ago, soli'd said:

would love to hear the story on this! @Northfield

It's in the ad:

"Hey Captain.
Hamer employees were allowed to build an “Employee guitar” ( not a Hamer, of course ). This one was mine. And, except for the finishing part of it, it was built outside of our shop. I never planned on selling it, but at that point in time I had to let it go. It’s a great guitar, just like anything else I make. Very surprised it made it all the way to Germany.
Good luck on selling it, and I would appreciate it if you would not refer to it as being a Hamer, because it is not.
All the best
M"

[0054]

So we have 000, 001 up through 1xx so far. 

So this sits at -001?

Good Deal!!

It's beautiful

[cmatthes]

There are a fair number of “pre-serial” Shishkovs out there…

 

[gorch]

Very nice guitar! Located far in the south of Germany. To far for just driving up to it.

[0054]

9 hours ago, cmatthes said:

There are a fair number of “pre-serial” Shishkovs out there…

 

The Hello KItty!! I thought most were Jazz kinda boxes, ya know the real far out, not the mainstream Shishkovs!!

[soli'd]

12 hours ago, cmatthes said:

There are a fair number of “pre-serial” Shishkovs out there…

 

Doesn't @serial have a Mike-built lightning-bolt/half-reverse Vee-style?