From myguitarguide.com RE: Epi335
For an example, let’s choose the serial number from the guitar on the right:
example:I04031245
This is what each character means:
“I” = Factory/Country
“04″ = Year of Manufacture (2004)
“03″ = Month of Manufacture (March)
“1245″ = Manufacturing Number
This is the factory/country code “cheatsheet”:
KOREA: I= Saein, U=Unsung, S=Samick, P or R=Peerless
CHINA: DW=DeaWon, EA=Gibson/QingDao, EE=Gibson/QingDao, MC=Muse, SJ=SaeJung, Z=ZaozhuangSaehan, BW=China
JAPAN: No letter or F=FujiGen,J or T=Terada
INDONESIA: SI=Samick
So this particular example axe was made in March of 2004 in the Saein factory in Korea.
My serial number leads me to believe, as I stated above, to be 2000, April the 6th guitar that month or day, for thaat matter.
Is it not possible to get a good "deal" once in a blue moon?
I'll put up pics, soon.