In 2002, Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) controlled the Epiphone name. Its 5 lines on record were built at Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically), Other Korean contractors (Epiphone; unverified) and Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan) (Japan, South Korea and China).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
A Epiphone guitar from 2002 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 1908no source, 94 years before.
Epiphone China: a new era begins under Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024), built at Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan)[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Epiphone Korea: the 1986–2002 era ends (Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024), Samick Korea (Epiphone; city unverified))[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11]
Where Epiphone was built in 2002
Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan), Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically) 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.