Matt4356

Read my reply... The Yamano-gakki are screw on neck, with a single black grommet on the heel commonly mistaken for a strap pin. This clearly isn't one of those.

Japan has made them with the clipped ear epi headstock. But they had a bolt on neck, not in the fender sense but it has a black grommet on the back hiding one screw and two screws under the fret board. Sometimes mistaken for a strap pin, there was a thread a while ago where someone bought one not knowing it was bolt on. That model is the only jap lp that was being made in 95 and the only one to ever have that headstock, it also had a flame top and a made in Japan silk screen on the back. This is no way that model. Its a standard to me, nothing else. I will say, the only real issue with that guitar is that the serial number is in too far off a location to have left most factoies, let alone Fujigen. Something doesn't seem right.

Nice to see, but needed the batwing headstock for me.

Interesting, thanks.

DW - DaeWon ( China) 06 - 2006 05 - May 1036 - production number

Parts for gibson will be imperial measurement, asian spec is metric. I put a gotoh GE103B Nashville bridge on my dot studio a few years ago, mainly for a little extra travel on the g saddle but it was a far superior bridge and a noticeable upgrade.

The ' I' indicates it was made in Saein in Korea, January 1998 production number 0727. The serial number doesn't tell you the model number. As kid has said it is a g400. Nothing at all to suggest its not real. Enjoy.

According to the owner of satellite amps, he acquired the trademark for the Coronet in 2016. If Gibson applied for a trademark and one exists, that's the lawsuit. He's pretty confident the law is on his side, as he should be if what he is saying is true. He apparently offered Gibson the trademark at lower than court costs and they haven't responded. Don't forget to 'play authentic'

So some more interesting details emerging on this one. Gibson don't appear to own the Coronet trademark in the US, Satellite have since 2016 and produce accurate spec reproductions, offered for a few years since epiphone wasn't offering them. Gibson is suing them them, so obviously want to make Coronets again. New faces same regime.

I just took 30 seconds of my life to look for you on Andertons. I found 6 left hand epiphone les Paul's, about £30-50 more expensive than right hand. Not really a drastic price difference, any price difference could be down to demand, which is going to be significantly lower.

The letters after the model usually refer to the colour on older epiphones, but that itself doesn't offer much help as i can't think what HSB stands for. I can't see the pictures. Heritage Sun Burst? Usually called sun burst or vintage sun burst.

Not sure how reliable a source it actually is but Instagram user Gueikian, who works for Gibson, responded to two questions about reissues of the coronet and the wilshire. Answering stay tuned to both. Hopefully Gibson follow the recent path and add more to the made in USA line, I could pass on the casino but a wilshire?

Nice, p 90's are the best pickups for me. Not sure if it's just the picture but i like the colour, it's not too yellow. The tuners do look good on there too. But for the love of God man, please get those stickers off, or at least the QC one. My OCD aaahhhh. But seriously, glad you like it, enjoy.

I've just seen that gueikian on Instagram posted a picture of an epiphone headstock overlay 3 days ago with the caption epiphone made in USA again. The post was liked by Mark Agnesi and the user has loads of shots from the gibson factory. They are being made, like said above they will be available soon.

I- Saein Korea 04- 2004 02 - February 1295 - production number Looks like a standard plus top to me.

It's a 'second'. It would have been sold by a company called MIRC, Musical Instrument Reclamation Centre. They add the gold sticker over the original number as it possibly says used on it. They add they're own serial numbers, they generally start 311. A lot of them come with USED stamped on the back of the headstock. It looks to be in good condition and they generally do a good job of refubing them, sometimes they didn't pass QC for small things. I think a lot of them came with Seymour Duncan pick ups, but I could be wrong. Sorry if you bought it not knowing the full story.

Nice, love the colour when they fade that way. Looks very clean. If it is from 75 it would have been for the Japanese domestic market I believe.

You may need to alter the slots on the nut. To be specific, the back angle leading away from the fretboard, DONT take any material of the fretboard side unless needed. You may or may not need to do this, impossible to tell from the pics, just a possibility. Also have you changed the head shape or finish?

I had a local engraver based in a hardware shop make me a custom made plaque for my dot a few years ago after fitting a bigsby, I couldn't find one for sale anywhere. I remember him saying it's not going to be cheap, him thinking it was a small peice of plastic. He charged about £3. Back to the point, I took the truss cover off the dot to him as i wanted a custom one, he scanned the original in and i emailed him my design for the front, again £3. Perfect fit. May be worth a try if all else fails

Hi, S- Sammick, Korea 93, 1993 2, February 3862, the production number. Usually the month is stated as two digits so would be 02, sometimes the years were one digit and would it would have started witha 3. That's why the problems reading them, especially if you use somewhere like guitardater.

1. Welcome 2. This is epiphone electric sub forum. 3. That's not an epiphone. 4. This thread you have found is nine years old. 5. Dont fall into the trap of thinking older and made in Japan = $$$, it doesn't always. Like everywhere they made some cr ap. 6. Sorry I can be of no help, I doubt you will get any here.

I've seen this on another forum somewhere years ago I think, similar circumstances and model, definitely muse factory as it was possibly the only other time I've heard it mentioned. Nobody had an an answer. So, its obviously not either of those years, most likely a mistake in the factory. My guess would be 02 with the first 2 being the mistake, but that's a guess, I dont even know the model variant you have. You could try contacting epiphone customer service with pictures, I doubt they will be of much help given the age, volume built and factory's not being used any more. But they should tell you when the model was available between to try to narrow it down.

Glad you like it, like Kid says and you now feel, these bigsby are fine. I have 3 'import' bigsbyed guits, no problems. They're not for dive bombs. Dont worry you got the wrong one, you will ALWAYS still want the other one as well, it affects us all. Enjoy

I've seen a picture of the back of a lp special headstock, the serial had a factory code 15. Quingdao China.

It would've been a bad break to need a different head, and like you say there seems to be no sign of repair. Maybe it was a first or last production run and they just used what neck they had? Or a gouge on the body meant it needed solid paint? Could have a flame maple veneer underneath, who knows?