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It had Terry Rogers's "Zorro" custom mark on the back of the headstock, and the clueless seller said he bought it from a friend who acquired it visiting Qingdao where the Epi factory is and I knew TR had spent some time in Asia so I thought maybe he made a prototype for them Jan 13, 8. Gibson trussrod cover screams FAKE to me.
Epiphone elitist no serial number?
TylerE , Jan 13, Jan 13, 9. The trussrod cover is not wrong for an Elitist. And it's the correct 2 hole version and not the 3 hole version. That flame and burst looks typical of the Elitist too. Pop out the neck pickup and see if it has a long neck tenon. Jan 13, OiRogers , Jan 13, So you would be buying a fake of a fake??????
Hefalump , Jan 13, Synex , Jan 13, Here is another one without a SN on the back of the headstock.
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Maybe some are just that way. I would check under the pickups and see if anything is scribbled in there and contact Epi in Nashville and see what they say. Looking more closely it appears there is a number imprinted. Ampedusa , Jan 13, I have a Elitist , the serial number is very hard to see. It's almost like they stamped the finish and not the wood. Maybe the camera had a hard time picking it up.
Maybe ask the seller??
JPIndustrie , Jan 13, Jan 15, Asked the seller and he said there isn't a serial number. CMI took great measures to keep the Gibson and Epiphone identities separate and housed the two companies in different buildings each with its own separate management team.
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Epiphone was Gibson's main rival in the archtop market prior to Stathopoulo moved to the United States in and continued to make his original instruments, as well as mandolins , from Long Island City in Queens , New York. Anastasios died in , and his son, Epaminondas "Epi" , took over.
After two years, the company became known as The House of Stathopoulo. The company produced its recording line of banjos in and, four years later, took on the name of the Epiphone Banjo Company.
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It produced its first guitars in After Epi died in , control of the company went to his brothers, Orphie and Frixo. In , a four-month-long strike forced a relocation of Epiphone from New York City to Philadelphia. After Epiphone became a subsidiary of Norlin Gibson's parent after , many of its instruments were later patterned after the more expensive Gibson versions.
Occasionally, Epiphone models are of such high quality that sales of those less expensive instruments actually cut into the Gibson's sales. Workmanship and manufacturing standards were so high that Gibson killed the model.
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To help distinguish itself from the parent brand, Epiphone also maintains its own line of archtop guitars and basses. This outfit was an amplifier, case and lap steel guitar stand all rolled into one unit [8] and was supplied by a suitcase manufacturer of the time. Gibson produced Epiphone amplifiers in the s.
These were basically copies or variations of Gibson and Fender amplifiers [ citation needed ]. They used a tube design, and some had reverb and tremolo. Gibson decided to launch a new line of Epiphone amplifiers in with many different models, including the So Cal, Blues Custom, and the Epiphone Valve Junior. The Valve Senior offers 20 watts of power, with a full equalizer, gain, volume, reverb, and presence control.
As of , Epiphone has ceased production of their line of amplifiers with the exception of the Player and Performance Pack practice amplifiers, available only in Epiphone's starter packages. These Amplifiers are under the Epiphone Electar moniker. Solid body guitars with flat tops and backs were made at the Elenor Street plants both Gibson and Epiphone in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Some of these Epiphone instruments were effectively identical to the relevant Gibson versions, perhaps made with same timber, materials and components as the contemporary equivalent Gibson guitars.
Epiphone also continued its production of world class archtop guitars using the same patterns and molds from Epi's New York era. The other Kalamazoo-made Epiphones had technical or cosmetic relationship with the similar Gibson version. Several Epiphone guitars have been produced in the United States after Contact Contents Privacy Policy Forum.
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