mdvineng said:Sometimes the 3rd and 4th number indicate the factory, but which one?
Some of the Epiphone Chinese factory codes
12 = DeaWon or Unsung (China, uncertainty remains as to which factory)
15 = Qingdao (China, electric)
16 = Qingdao (China, acoustic)
17 = Unknown (China)
20 = DaeWon or Unsung (China, uncertainty remains as to which factory)
As to the OP, most certainly Chinese and that's enough really.
I thought it the first two digits were the year? The third digit is buffer 0 and then 4 model numbers for a total of 7 digits. My Love Rock Les Paul is 0104347. The owner said it was a 2001.Before this “earthquake” they all had 7 digits including Gibson clones which began with the year number digit, then a 0, then five more numbers. Y0xxxxx
So:
A 1979 would have a serial number of 90xxxxx.
A 1980 would have a serial number of 00xxxxx.
A 1981 would have a serial number of 10xxxxx.
Do you have pictures you can post? Hard to comment without more information.I thought it the first two digits were the year? The third digit is buffer 0 and then 4 model numbers for a total of 7 digits. My Love Rock Les Paul is 0104347. The owner said it was a 2001.
No, I can't post camera shots anymore. The number are branded in the back of the headstock 0104347. If you had a 10xxxxx how would you know if that was a 2001 or a 2011? It should be either 010xxxx or 110xxxx.Do you have pictures you can post? Hard to comment without more information.
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