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Hey, cool pics EpiphoneFan!

I lived in Korea for 3years +, back in '96-'99. At the time I got my first Epiphone at Nakwon Sangka, but it was what we today would call an unauthorised guitar, I think. I was looking it over (a semi-hollow, maybe a sheraton) and pointed out that there was no serial number.

 

The young sales guy looked like I had caught him trying to steal from my mother, and then told me that in exchange for making all the guitars for Epiphone, Samick had a "deal" where they could use the Epi parts on some un-numbered guitars for the local market.

 

The first 2-3 guitars I looked at had problems or things falling off them, and I made him pull another one from storage. That one was pretty good.

 

Oh, and once I called his bluff about the serial numbers the price went down by about half. I was also able to combine that with a pretty sweet deal for a gig bag, long cable, free chromatic tuner (that I still swear by today), and an amp. I traded it to a Canadian guy for some cash and his Ibanez acoustic shortly before I left, and then gave the acoustic to one of my friends. When I got back to America, though, I started buying the first of my many "real" Epiphones.

 

FIGHTING! :-

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Hiya EF' date=' I checked out the site but sorry can't understand it '](*,) is there a english version, I did understand the pics though. 8-[ :D/

 

 

Cheers

 

 

RR

 

Ken.

 

Sorry but only Korean.

We support epiphone and catch the fake in Korea.

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Hey' date=' cool pics EpiphoneFan!

I lived in Korea for 3years +, back in '96-'99. At the time I got my first Epiphone at Nakwon Sangka, but it was what we today would call an unauthorised guitar, I think. I was looking it over (a semi-hollow, maybe a sheraton) and pointed out that there was no serial number.

 

The young sales guy looked like I had caught him trying to steal from my mother, and then told me that in exchange for making all the guitars for Epiphone, Samick had a "deal" where they could use the Epi parts on some un-numbered guitars for the local market.

 

The first 2-3 guitars I looked at had problems or things falling off them, and I made him pull another one from storage. That one was pretty good.

 

Oh, and once I called his bluff about the serial numbers the price went down by about half. I was also able to combine that with a pretty sweet deal for a gig bag, long cable, free chromatic tuner (that I still swear by today), and an amp. I traded it to a Canadian guy for some cash and his Ibanez acoustic shortly before I left, and then gave the acoustic to one of my friends. When I got back to America, though, I started buying the first of my many "real" Epiphones.

 

FIGHTING! 8-[

 

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That time, Epiphone couldn't buy and sale in korea.

We had no distributor, that time.

but, Nack-won was sale unofficial Epiphone and sample-test Epiphone.

sample-test Epiphone was no serial or experimental model for OEM(Samick)'s first product.

so it be very inexpensive but existed good model.

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That time' date=' Epiphone couldn't buy and sale in korea.

We had no distributor, that time.

but, Nack-won was sale unofficial Epiphone and sample-test Epiphone.

sample-test Epiphone was no serial or experimental model for OEM(Samick)'s first product.

so it be very inexpensive but existed good model.[/quote']

 

Yup, I know that now, but back then I didn't. They were trying to pass it off as the real thing, though. It only went down in price when I began to ask questions and demonstrated it wasn't my first guitar.

 

Glad there is an official distributor in Korea now. I may visit Korea next January for my father-in-law's birthday, but I am not sure yet. If I do, hopefully we can meet up.

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That is the late great Cliff Burton. He was the original bass player in Metallica.

 

Yup, even if you don't like Metallica, if you heard what he did on those 4 strings, you would bow your head too. He upped the ante for bass players the same way Hendrix, Van Halen, Rhoads and Page did for guitarists.

 

I live in Dresher, in Upper Dublin Montco. I have been in the area about 7 years. I am originally from Albany, NY.

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