awaker Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 What´s up you guys?! My name is Mateus, from Brasil... I´d like to get information about my guitar... All I know is that it was built in '86, at a korean factory... Could someone tell me how good/bad could it be? I mean, about the wood used to built it, and the pickups and stuff... Is it better if we compare to the 2008 chinese ones, for example? All i heard was the late 80's were good, better than the ones made after '01... Thanks for the responses and sorry for my broken english... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suicidehummer Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 What´s up you guys?! My name is Mateus' date=' from Brasil... I´d like to get information about my guitar... All I know is that it was built in '86, at a korean factory... Could someone tell me how good/bad could it be? I mean, about the wood used to built it, and the pickups and stuff... Is it better if we compare to the 2008 chinese ones, for example? All i heard was the late 80's were good, better than the ones made after '01... Thanks for the responses and sorry for my broken english...[/quote'] Going by your avatar picture, it's not an '80's model. They had Gibson style headstocks until the '90's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awaker Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 But i got the serial number... The guitar dater project web site says it was built in may '86... The serial number is something like 6054421... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epilover9568 Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 There is a photo of an 89 epi lp in here: http://www.blah3.com/dieselblog/index.php?category=4 The headstock doesn't look exactly like a gibson... But similar... It certainly looks quite different than the avatar Here is anothre 80s epi les paul: http://forums.weebls-stuff.com/showthread.php?p=1849382 You may have a 1996 model... Numbers starting with 6 were built in 1996... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphone What is the exact serial number ? Does it start with a letter ? If yes, what letter ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awaker Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 The serial number is 6054155 ... No letters... Only numbers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awaker Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 Korea I = Saein U = Unsung S = Samick P or R = Peerless K = Korea China DW = DeaWon EA = Gibson/QingDao EE = Gibson/QingDao MC = Muse SJ = SaeJung Z = Zaozhuang Saehan BW = China Japan No letter or F = FujiGen J or T = Terada Czech Republic B = Bohêmia Musico-Delicia Indonesia SI = Samick Example: U8034853 U = Unsung, 8 = 1998, 03 = March, 4853 = manufacturing number." So, according to wikipedia, 6054155 would be a japanese (no letter) may 96´ guitar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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epinder Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Epiphone didn't start manufacturing the LP until 1988 in the Samick factory according to the book "Epiphone The Complete History" so it is not an '86 model. Also according to the book, the "Orville" line was started in '91 and produced in Japan. I think that these were the Epi's that had the Gibby headstock and this continued on to the MIJ LP's. The early Korean models had the tape serial number on them w/o the plant letter. I'm also pretty sure that the numbers were random so finding an exact build year would be difficult. You might say that this one is a late '80's or early '90's LP unless of course it is stamped "used" or "2nd" on the headstock. This would open up a whole new can of worms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindern Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Epiphone serial "F6110106" hand crafted in korea by epiphone.ewhays you're year crafted❓ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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