

But, it's the 128th guitar made in either 1985 or 1995. Epiphone was Gibsons main rival in the archtop market prior to 1957. was purchased by Gibson and relocated from New York to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The Epiphone Acoustic Guitar was in its early stages during this period. Les Paul, yes, the man himself worked nights at Epiphone on a guitar he dubbed the log,s apologies.
#EPIPHONE SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP LES PAUL SERIAL NUMBERS#
So, as Your Uncle Bob stated in the comments, this is an Epiphone Les Paul made in November by the Samick factory in Korea. Epiphone is an American musical instrument manufacturer founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Type your serial numbers into the decoder below and youll get all of Epiphones data on the device. The ranking number may consist of any number of A single digit month of manufacture may occur for some 1997Īnd earlier models. The serial number letters used by the Terada and Fuji-Gen guitar factories are: J Terada. Note: There may be no factory designator for some 1993 and earlier Y Year of manufacture MM Month of manufacture PPP Production number. 9803113 01 Last two digits indicate the guitars position in that days production sequence. I found the below decoder (among other Epiphone decoders) on this handy Gibson forum:Įxample: 3021234 = Samick Korea / 1993 / February / unit 1234Įxample: S3021234 = Samick Korea / 1993 / February / unit 1234Įxample: S93021234 = Samick Korea / 1993 / February / unit 1234Įxample: SI01021234 = Samick Indonesia / 2001 / February / unit 1234Įxample: SI010212345 = Samick Indonesia / 2001 / February / unit 12345 Serial numbers with 9, 10, or 11 digits are decoded differently. With that bit of info, you can simply google " serial number decoder." started looking at Les Paul s too, that should double my chances. (look like yours, but in black letters) dub-setter, 6. Since you have a serial number, it's quite easy to identify this guitar. Does anyone know when epiphone stopped using serial number stickers.
