Looking for some help / insight on my specific Les Paul and decoding the serial number.

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Hey everyone – Looking for some insight on one of my Les Pauls.

It is the first Les Paul I ever purchased and I’ve had her now for 15 years! I bought her from a local shop in 2006 when I was 21 years old.  She’s a 1996 Gibson Les Paul Standard (50s reissue) with tobacco burst and it gets a lot, and I mean A LOT, of attention.  I’m always getting comments about the paint job on it, and the wood grain of the top.  Most people comment saying that they’ve seen tobacco bursts before but have never seen one look so good, or done quite so well.  Others marvel over the grain on the top.

 I’ve had people offer to buy it from me outright for WAY more than I paid for it, and I’ve had someone try to walk off with it once.

I always took pride in the attention that it received when I took it out, but never really put much thought in to its history until recently, so I started where one would start.  With the Serial Number, I know the day it was stamped and obviously the year, and I’ve even deduced where it was built, but the production number is throwing me for a loop.

The Language on Gibson’s site says:

“Since 1989, all Gibson acoustics are built in Bozeman, MT and all Gibson electrics are built in Nashville or Memphis (Mine was stamped in Nashville since Memphis wasn’t opened until 2001).  Ranking Numbers for Bozeman start each day at 001 and the electrics start as low as the 300s.

Examples: 70108276 means the instrument was produced on Jan 10, 1978, in Kalamazoo and was the 276^th instrument stamped that day.

82765501 means the instrument was produced on Oct. 3, 1985, in Nashville and was the first instrument stamped that day.”

I am comprehending that although these examples pre-date my guitar, the logic states that if my guitar was the 1^st guitar stamped in Nashville on September 2^nd, 1996 then my serial number would be 92466301 because electrics start as low as the 300s, so if my guitar was the 89^th guitar stamped in Nashville on September 2^nd 1996 that my serial number would read 92466389.  If my guitar was the 215^th guitar stamped in Nashville on September 2^nd 1996 then my serial number would read 92466515.

So what if the production number is ‘300’, the lowest of the ‘300s’ you can start at?

My serial number is 92466300?

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