Don’t know if anyone still reads these since I’m replying eight years later, but my first electric was an epiphone strat. I recently replaced the pots, switch, and Jack and put some Texas specials in it. However, I noticed it has a hand carved serial number on the neck that won’t pull up in any serial number database searches. I was just interested to see what year and factory it’s from. Serial no. 248-35-5137