Freuds_cat Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 For those wanting to know more about the date and sometimes place of manufacture: The Epiphone serial number decoder currently supports 11 serial number formats from 25 factories. Vintage numbers from 1932 to 1970 are now supported. Serial numbers from 70' and 80's era Epiphone guitars made in Japan are not supported. The reason for this is that there is no reliable documentation from this time period. http://www.guitardaterproject.org/epiphone.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerxst1281733995 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 That always seems to be the case with Japanese guitar manufacturers... The SNs are meaningless... I tried to date/locate a Yamaha guitar that I have.. Even the dater on the Yamaha website couldn't tell me when or where it was made.. They recycle SNs every 10 years, so it could have been made in 1965, or 1975, or 1985, or... etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicledbetter Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 does anybody know if there is a way to distinguish between the 1961 single pickup Newport and the 1962? i've tried the guitar dater project and it gives me a year range. thanks in advance for any assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santi1281734009 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 My Epi Ripper (superb buit) has the L97XXX... code. It is from Korea, and I think it was made in 1997. But, somebody knows in wich factory? My Rivoly and my JC are from Peerless (Pusan, Korea). But the facotory of my Ripper is a mistery for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freuds_cat Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 I'm only aware of Shine http://www.saein.co.kr/ Un-Sung http://www.unsung.co.kr/index.html and Peerless http://peerlessguitar.com/ Anyone else know about the "L" prefix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santi1281734009 Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Yes, thank you... but the mistery continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freuds_cat Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 SANTI, its not an "I" for Saien is it? Can you take a pic and post it here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santi1281734009 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 No, it is a "L", sure. I hope to post some pics soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santi1281734009 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Sorry, my camera don´t work... I have tried again, but it is not possible for now. The Serial numbre is L97. . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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