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Unfortunally ESP didn't keep good records of old serial numbers. Many records have been lost during years and most of all were destroyed in a fire accident on late '90s in ESP Japan factory.

For old guitars we can only know the exact data reading the ESP warranty card when there is , or unscrewing the neck if the neck is bolt on and read under it becuse probably theres the data write on pencil. I keep record of this data in order to try to deduce other correspondences. They were made by Terada and usually have an Orange Epiphone label. The Aria Epiphone Japan models that were made by Matsumoku from the early s and ending before do not have a reliable serial numbering system but can be approximately dated using their Epiphone label colours.

The early Japanese blue labels were left over from production at the Kalamazoo factory and were used on Japanese-made instruments until supplies ran out approximately These labels say "Union Made" in the lower left corner and are sometimes hand-stamped with "Made in Japan" at the bottom.

We are currently delivering in The Netherlands and France. Prior to when the Kalamazoo, MI factory was closed, the numbers indicated Kalamazoo production.

Ranking numbers continued to indicate Nashville production through Ranking numbers for Bozeman start each day at and the electrics may start as low as the s. Examples: means the instrument was produced on Jan. The sixth number is now a batch number- batch 0 starts at the beginning of the day, and once we stamp , the batch number will change to 1.

The first 5 numbers remain the same, the last 3 numbers will remain the same. Click the red Contact Me button in the lower right corner of your screen to send me information about your guitar.

I'm looking forward to checking it out! The serial number is one of the first places to start for how to date a Gibson Les Paul guitar. It should be on the back of the neck at the top just between and above the tuning machines. If the Gibson Les Paul serial number is six digits or less then your guitar may be older than Gibson reused this serial number scheme for reissue guitars starting in the s, so check the picture below to compare vintage versus reissue serial numbers.

Is your serial number ink stamped like the Gibson Les Paul on the left? Gibson used 5 or 6 digit ink stamped serial numbers on Les Paul guitars from until The first digit of this style serial number indicates the last digit of the year it was manufactured. This is how to date a Gibson Les Paul serial number from the s.

Gibson reused this serial number scheme for reissue guitars in the past 20 years as well, so check to see that the style matches. Do you have a Gibson Les Paul with an ink stamped serial number?