Korean Stamped Etched Impressed Neck Plate Serial Number Guitars

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1995 AST25 BB

SN 5110288

tokai limited edition Stratocaster manufactured in 1985?

 

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Fine Corporation, Korea/China? (that's a name I found floating around repeatedly in context with Epiphone, but never saw any evidence/factory website/pics, but I didn't look very hard)

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This would certainly seem to explain the F in most of these serial numbers.

 

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Capturing all of the pics full size for future reference.

SN F0101098

Gelöscht • Thinline Telecaster Tele Made in Korea 2001 im Epiphone Werk

 

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And this one that led Homer to make this connection.

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