Otherwise we'll waste eachother's money! I'm only willing to go to about £330! If you want to bid on it let me know and I'll back out. not consistent with the peerless plant at all.

Serial number on headstock, square label on inside, small italic looking logo on pickguard. It's not that' date=' it's that I'm highly unsure that it's 1994 Korean and not a Japanese. The Aria Epiphone Japan models that were made by Matsumoku from the early 1970s and ending before 1987 do not have a reliable serial numbering system but can be approximately dated using their Epiphone label colours. They were made by Terada and usually have an Orange Epiphone label.įor Example 34784 = 3 4784 = 1993 SHERATON. For example 903584 is dated March 1999 and was made by Fuji-Gen, J903584 is dated March 1999 and was made by Terada, F505693 is dated May 2005 and was made by Fuji-Gen, T505693 is dated May 2005 and was made by Terada.įor Yamano Gakki Epiphone Japan semi acoustic models from 1987 to approximately 1997, the serial numbers are in a YCPPP format. The serial number letters used by the Terada and Fuji-Gen guitar factories are J = Terada, T = Terada, no letter = Fuji-Gen and F = Fuji-Gen. The Yamano Gakki Epiphone Japan serial numbers from 1998 onwards (after the Orville series was discontinued) are in a YMMPPP format. Gibson and Yamano Gakki ended their relationship in late 2006. The same Terada and Fuji-Gen guitar factories that made all of the Orville by Gibson and Orville guitars were used to make the Gibson/Yamano Gakki Epiphone Elite and Epiphone Elitist series with the Terada guitar factory mostly making the semi acoustic models and the Fuji-Gen guitar factory mostly making the solid body models. The Epiphone Japan open book headstock guitars were produced for the Japanese market only. The Epiphone Japan guitars that were intended for export do not have a Gibson style open book headstock.

Some of the Gibson/Yamano Gakki Epiphone Japan guitars were exported. After Gibson and Yamano Gakki ended Orville production in 1998, Gibson and Yamano Gakki produced an expanded Epiphone Japan model range including solid body as well as semi acoustic models. The Terada guitar factory in Japan was used to make the Yamano Gakki Epiphone Japan guitars. In 1987 Yamano Gakki obtained the Epiphone Japan dealership and produced a limited range of Epiphone Japan semi acoustic models in cooperation with Gibson. The Matsumoku guitar factory in Japan was used to make the Aria Epiphone Japan guitars.

Epiphone Japan was first established by Gibson in the early 1970s with the dealership mostly being managed by Aria in cooperation with Gibson.

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