


For example day "02" could be "2," and thus the serial would be only 7 digits long. For example, an "8" can indicate or Also note, some guitars may omit a leading zero. Like some other serial schemes, this one may require you to know something about the ESP guitars of the period because the "Y" digit could mean multiple years. So the serial number "" would indicate a guitar produced the 2nd day of November in OR and was the th guitar off the production line. They were made by Terada and usually have an Orange Epiphone label.
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The system uses running model numbers rather than a dedicated code for year, month, and place of manufacture. The ranking number may consist of any number of digits. A single digit month of manufacture may occur for some and earlier models. Happy hunting! Pre productions also frequently omit the factory letter codes and appeared as all digits, e. Dean's more affordable line made outside the US will indicate the country of manufacture, but production year requires looking at features and hardware and some knowledge of the line.Įpiphone Back to top of page Below appear some of the serial schemes that an Epiphone serial can use. If you see a seven digit serial number on the back of a Dean guitar, you can be sure that it was produced in United States. Century fc 90 welder partsĭean Back to top of page Every Dean guitar made in United States comes with a seven digit serial number that is printed on the back of the headstock some 90s models may be stamped on the fretboard.įirst two numbers in the sequence will tell you when your guitar was produced. MM Y NN.Rickenbacker - Schecter - Taylor - Washburn - Yamaha. They have a way of producing black again now so expect it to all go back to the way most of us prefer over time. The PRE system doesn't apply to early ESP's, some of which had no serial number tracking system at all and used random numbers. This has resulted in alot of confusion, and For this we apologize, and we are working to maintain a more consistent system going forward. I keep record of this data in order to try to deduce other correspondences. For old guitars we can only know the exact data reading the ESP warranty card when there isor unscrewing the neck if the neck is bolt on and read under it becuse probably theres the data write on pencil. Many records have been lost during years and most of all were destroyed in a fire accident on late '90s in ESP Japan factory. Unfortunally ESP didn't keep good records of old serial numbers. To have an exact dating of this guitars you have to unscrew the neck and look at the date could be written below. This is the reason why we can easilu find guitars with the bolt plate referring to a year or two before or after respect the serial printed on the back of the headstock. For example my MX have serial " " that means was made the number NOTE: Follow this reference may not be accurate because probably they printed a certain number of plates and then put on guitars in a random manner, without noticing consecutive numeration.

If you are lucky you can find a serial written on pencil where the body is bolted to the neck or in the neck also or in the pickup cavity. You have to look at the models in production that year.
