Guitar Story
Guitar Story
In 1987, Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) controlled the Epiphone name. Its 3 lines on record were built at Samick Korea (Epiphone; city unverified) and Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically) (South Korea and Japan).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
A Epiphone guitar from 1987 belongs to whichever era was running on its product line that year. An era is a stretch when the company that controlled the name and the plant that built the line both stayed the same. If you know the line, the table below tells you which version of Epiphone you have. The name dates from 1904[S355], 83 years before.
| Line | Controlled by | Parent | Built at | Era | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epiphone Japan | Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) | — | No plant on record | 1987–2018 | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] |
| Epiphone Japan special models | Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) | — | Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically) Japanno source | 1987–2018 | unverified[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] |
| Epiphone Korea | Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) | — | Samick Korea (Epiphone; city unverified) South Koreano source | 1986–2002 | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] |
Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically) and Samick Korea (Epiphone; city unverified). See every brand each plant built for, and every plant in the same country:
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
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