In 2004, 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), Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan) and Gibson Qingdao (Japan, South Korea and China).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
A Epiphone guitar from 2004 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, 96 years before.
Epiphone China: a new era begins under Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024), built at Gibson Qingdao[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan), Gibson Qingdao, 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.