As I took a closer look at the vintage11.5" Gon Bops I bought recently,
I noticed that there was not any finish on it, you could feel the wood and the grain
very well. Unprotected wood? No, José, so I decided on giving it two layers of a good
floorboard lacquer, just like I finished my other two Gon Bops, which are also from
that International series.
But after I did it, I wonder why I did not think of a good layer of epoxy first ?
At least that is what they had done years ago at the Gon Bops factory, hadn´t they.
Now I am worried the wood will probably suffer - or do you think that will be OK?
Well, another thing I am wondering about is the production date:
Can the serial number provide some cle as th when the IT-4125 was manufactured?
It says 630xxx or probably 630xxxx, hand-written, in the inside of the shell. Is there a database or
something like that to track down the year?