Trying to find out the year of a pickup

[Jeffg]

Trying to find out the year of the pickup and is it a real SD.

[ArtieToo]

It looks like a modern JB that someone, (other than the factory), installed the cover. Hard to believe that the factory would do that sloppy of a soldering job.

[jeremy]

the solder on the cover is pretty sloppy, the screw poles also look really short but it could just be the pic

[Mincer]

A good place to research and post about things like this is this thread.

[beaubrummels]

There's another thread also where member HSB (I believe, or maybe Eclecticsynergy?) laid out a bunch of information about base plate and label changes and approximating years. You might be able to get it down to a 4-year range if you find that thread.