In 1999, Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) controlled the Epiphone name. Its 4 lines on record were built at Samick Korea (Epiphone; city unverified), Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically), PT Cort Indonesia, Ngoro, Other Korean contractors (Epiphone; unverified) and FujiGen (South Korea, Japan and Indonesia).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
A Epiphone guitar from 1999 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], 95 years before.
Nothing changed in 1999. Every era running that year carried on from an earlier year, so a Epiphone from 1999 is the same version as one from 1998.
Where Epiphone was built in 1999
PT Cort Indonesia, Ngoro, Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically), FujiGen, Samick Korea (Epiphone; city unverified) and Other Korean contractors (Epiphone; 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.