In 2019, Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) controlled the Epiphone name under KKR-led creditor group (Gibson). Its 5 lines on record were built at Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan), Gibson Qingdao, Other Korean contractors (Epiphone; unverified) and Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically) (China, South Korea and Japan).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
A Epiphone guitar from 2019 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, 111 years before.
Nothing changed in 2019. Every era running that year carried on from an earlier year, so a Epiphone from 2019 is the same version as one from 2018.
Where Epiphone was built in 2019
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.