

There didn't seem to be much about it on this site and, not being able to find one particular site that has it all, I ended up collating information from all over the place. There are plenty of fake LP's out there and I had no idea on how to spot them. The obvious thing that confronts you is the question of whether or not the advertised guitar is the genuine article. Does anyone else have similar numbering out there? Cheers.This started from me having too much time on my hands this Christmas and just browsing for Epiphone LP's on ebay. A fake? It is Gibsons factory apparently so it could make sense they revert to their own sequence? Just a theory. So, is this possible? I can't make any other combo work. This puts my guitar at the 70th day of the year 2010, unit number 1266, (the 7th day would be 007 I presume, which could actually be quite cool to have a secretĪgent Epi, however, I digress). Understanding this was (is?) YDDDYBBBB (B being, lets say, Batch). Where I am at with it is that the current Chinese models coming out of China (which I'm pretty sure it was made)might have reverted to the old Gibson sequencing to my

Show anything up I went down that route, but even using that method the numbers don't follow the standard YYMMFFPPPP. My first question being, is that a 1 or an I? The label calls the guitar a Sheration II (as in WWII, doubleya doubleya eye eye), so when the numbers didn't Knowledge on it I'm new to Epiphone and archtops as well so will probably spend some time on this very forum mining the knowledge on here. I know the serial number threads has been done to death, but I have one that doesn't seem to match any of the classifications.at least I could do with some Hi all, I'm new to the forum having just recently bought a Sheraton II lefty VS - generally very pleased with it and already happy with my decision.
