Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 I've looked everywhere and I can't find where they are made? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 16, 2013 Author Share Posted December 16, 2013 They don't have serial numbers ..... they have numbers up to 1,962 Â Â All Epiphones are made in Indonesia, even the top flight ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) Mine only has a number 424. This is a mystery, maybe they are made in different factories? I'm trying to upload a photo but I have no space left. Â I'm also wondering how they got a serial number, because the one in the picture has the same blue label mine has and it doesn't have a serial number on it it has an "x of 1,962" on it. Can you find the serial number from anywhere else than the label inside the guitar? Edited December 18, 2013 by Shonita & Los Gatos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6string Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Mine has the blue label with X of 1962 and an imprinted SN on the back of the headstock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 Mine has the blue label with X of 1962 and an imprinted SN on the back of the headstock. Â Â Â SN Do you think that's the factory? Mine just has the quality assurance label on the headstock. The lettering on the blue label looks like someone Chinese might have written it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 see post #2  and pics would help alot  whole guitar, front and backside of the headstock inside label  :o   Can you speak to me nicely? I respond better.  Hope this is big enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott0 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 What's up  I answered your first question in the second post  I answered your next question in the 4th post and told you how it should be, proved it with links to look at and told you where Epis are made currently  Nobody can tell you more without the requested pics  I'm sure you will get lots af 'nice' replies from now on       Wow, just wow.  I'm sorry, but you seem to be mistaken. 50th anniversary Sorrentos don't have serial numbers. The other Sorrento owner on the board has confirmed this. If I'm frank, I think Sweetwater made up the one on the link you provided. Mine has neither made in Indonesia nor set up in the US on the headstock. If they are all made in Indonesia, why not? I've seen a pic of the blue label for a special Casino and it does have a serial number on it. The label is different to the special 1962 ones.   I've posted a pic of the label, maybe you could have a look, as you don't seem to have seen one like it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 What's up  I answered your first question in the second post  I answered your next question in the 4th post and told you how it should be, proved it with links to look at and told you where Epis are made currently  Nobody can tell you more without the requested pics  I'm sure you will get lots af 'nice' replies from now on       Wow, just wow.  I'm sorry, but you seem to be mistaken. 50th anniversary Sorrentos don't have serial numbers. The other Sorrento owner on the board has confirmed this. If I'm frank, I think Sweetwater made up the one on the link you provided. Mine has neither made in Indonesia nor set up in the US on the headstock. If they are all made in Indonesia, why not? I've seen a pic of the blue label for a special Casino and it does have a serial number on it. The label is different to the special 1962 ones.   I've posted a pic of the label, maybe you could have a look, as you don't seem to have seen one like it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I don't have a dog in this fight, but I have had a burning in my loins for a Sorrento, so I've looked at quite a few. Each had an "x of 1962" inside the secret chamber, and an imprinted serial number on the back of the 'stock. I have been offered a choice of serial numbers, I think in CO they have a half a dozen, and all of them come with a serial number. Â rct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott0 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 i had one, it didn't have a serial # on the headstock  here's an ebay one without a serial #  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aster1 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Your right it doesn't have a S/N on that but it also says it's a 2nd I believe. Don't they remove the S/N from factory 2nds with the repairs? At least that's what I thought. Use to stamp a "2nd" or something like that into the wood on the back side of the headstock too. Â Aster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott0 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Your right it doesn't have a S/N on that but it also says it's a 2nd I believe. Don't they remove the S/N from factory 2nds with the repairs? At least that's what I thought. Use to stamp a "2nd" or something like that into the wood on the back side of the headstock too. Â Aster mine was not a 2nd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott0 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 here's another, non 2nd without serial # Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 here's another, non 2nd without serial # Â Â Â Thank you for all the interesting replies. It seems they're all different. Here's my headstock, I don't think it's a second, if it is I'd like to see a first :) Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 Wow, just wow  all the ones sold by Wildwood and Sweetwater do have serialnumbers     Really, can you show a pic? The pics on the links you showed me didn't show a serial number. I downloaded them and looked at them large, but you couldn't see the serial number.   By the way for antone reading this, the conversation doesn't make sense because Midtowner has retroactively edited most of his posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 I don't have a dog in this fight, but I have had a burning in my loins for a Sorrento, so I've looked at quite a few. Each had an "x of 1962" inside the secret chamber, and an imprinted serial number on the back of the 'stock. I have been offered a choice of serial numbers, I think in CO they have a half a dozen, and all of them come with a serial number.  rct   Ah, thank you. It seems mine is different. I'm in Europe, are you in the US? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Ah, thank you. It seems mine is different. I'm in Europe, are you in the US? Â Yes, I am in Americur. Both Sweetwater in Indiana and Wildwood out there in northern Colorado have offered me a choice of serial numbers. Most dealers use the weight of the guitar and the serial number to try to sell you a decision when they have a few of something. Â Odd that yours do not, to me. I don't own one, may or may not ever own one, but have looked at lots and they all had a serial number along with the sequence number inside on the blue label. Â rct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aster1 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I see several of them not having any stamped S/N on the headstock and accept this may be the case. Did any of you Sorrento owners make a C/S call to Gibson about where the S/N is on these guitars then? Just curious as I've always had excellent help from C/S when I've called with questions/issues that I needed answered or resolved. Â Aster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott0 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Thank you for all the interesting replies. It seems they're all different. Here's my headstock, I don't think it's a second, if it is I'd like to see a first :) Â Â Â you're welcome, this thread kicks asses, would have hated not being a part of it since i actually had a non-serial # sorrento in my possession for several weeks, bought from sweetwater, my guy there, dylan, hooks me up with 12% off everything when i call him too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 you're welcome, this thread kicks asses, would have hated not being a part of it since i actually had a non-serial # sorrento in my possession for several weeks, bought from sweetwater, my guy there, dylan, hooks me up with 12% off everything when i call him too! Â :) I asked customer service, and they said that the Sorrentos should have both, but some got out without the serial number by mistake. They also said that they couldn't disclose the factories anymore because of pirating. If it says on the headstock "made in...." that's ok, if not... I take that to mean mine was made in China :). Unfortunately, I also seem to have a problem with the COA, which is both empty and the wrong one (CS provided some pics :)) Â Â Â So mine might be a fake :P I've asked if they think it's possible, although I bought it from THE Gibson Fender dealer in Paris (I've no idea what it's real name is, everyone just calls it the Fender shop) Â Do you recall if the SN was on the COA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6string Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Do you recall if the SN was on the COA? Â I just looked at mine. The SN that's on the headstock matches the SN on the COA. There is no SN on the blue label, only the "X of 1962". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6string Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 my guy there, dylan, hooks me up with 12% off everything when i call him too! Â Will you please PM me with Dylan's contact info? I've been dealing with Sweetwater for years and am always getting bounced between reps. When I ask for a discount, most of the time I'm told they don't do discounts at Sweetwater. I'd really like to deal with one rep that offers me the same discounts as others get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 Yes, I am in Americur. Both Sweetwater in Indiana and Wildwood out there in northern Colorado have offered me a choice of serial numbers. Most dealers use the weight of the guitar and the serial number to try to sell you a decision when they have a few of something.  Odd that yours do not, to me. I don't own one, may or may not ever own one, but have looked at lots and they all had a serial number along with the sequence number inside on the blue label.  rct  There aren't lots here, only one shop had them in Paris when I bought mine, and they had only one. The big internet dealer in the UK also had very few. Fascinating, in a world where we expect even guitars to be normalized, they aren't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonita & Los Gatos Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 I just looked at mine. The SN that's on the headstock matches the SN on the COA. There is no SN on the blue label, only the "X of 1962". Â I think you have a real one :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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