jeramydavid

For those following this thread... I was able to confirm with Gibson customer support that current serial numbers use the 1st and 5th digits for the year(2xxx0xxxx=2020). YDDDYBNNN so for example.. SN 122290122 would be the 122nd guitar built of the 222nd day of 2019 (August 10th) SN 215701088 would be the 588th guitar built of the 159th day of 2020 (June 5th) They did not tell me when they switched to this method, but I am sure pohatu771 is right that it has been since 2018. Thank you all for your input on this mystery. I do hope Gibson adds this info to their website soon. mrichard27 and I can not be the only ones confused by this.

This is great information. Do you have a reference or source? In my opinion having partial or incomplete information on the website is worse than having no information.

Great. Well i emailed customer support. Hoping for an answer soon.

everything I have read on the gibson website says the new USA models will have the year for the first two digits. I have been shopping for a les paul standard 60s and there are several on reverb with 22xxxxxxx serial numbers. Am I missing something?