Serial no. ID Help

[kingped]

Hello to you all.

New boy, Kingped, nice to find you lot whilst I await my AJ500M. Anyway I have a Casino VS - pretty sure its Korean, but can any of you learned Epi lovers shed some light.

 

NO:R04F0486....

 

 

thanks

KP

[epinder]

Your guitar was made in the:

 

Peerless factory

 

in 2004 during the month of June and it was the 486th built that month.

 

R = Peerless

 

04 = 2004

 

F = June (A=Jan., B=Feb., etc)

 

 

Hope this helps

[scarrabri]

Hello to you all.

New boy' date=' Kingped, nice to find you lot whilst I await my AJ500M. Anyway I have a Casino VS - pretty sure its Korean, but can any of you learned Epi lovers shed some light.

 

NO:R04F0486....

 

 

thanks

KP[/quote']

 

Hi epinder was right heres some more info ,best wishes scarrabri

 

 

Your guitar was made at the

Peerless Plant, Korea

June 2004

Production Number: 0486

 

 

 

Peerless Korea Co., Ltd.

Peerless Korea Co., Ltd. is a Korean-Japanese joint venture company headquartered in South Korea and has been in the guitar-manufacturing industry since 1970. With the core expertise in guitar manufacturing initiated from Japan, Peerless has provided 2.9 million pieces of guitars in the worldwide market so far. Peerless had once manufactured 30,000 pieces of guitars per month in the past in order to meet the order quantity, however have gradually changed their focus from quantity quality. With this in mind they have cut down their manufacturing capacity to 2,000 pieces per month just to ensure the high quality of our products. Peerless produces guitars via OEM for brands such as Epiphone by Gibson, Alvarez, Hoyer and Gretsch by Fender. Note: While not explicitly stated it is believed that Peerless is part owned by Aria of Japan.

[kingped]

lovely.

thanks for that guys.

 

kp