The PRE-2015 system doesn't apply to early ESP's, some of which had no serial number tracking system at all and used random numbers. While it was thought at one time that these were somehow 'special' and had solid tops, based on current research and scholarship, an emerging school of thought dismisses this notion. For this we apologize, and we are working to maintain a more consistent system going forward. In the 70's Sigma produced a line of guitars with model numbers starting with 52S, e.g., 52SDM-5, 52SDR-7 and 52SGCS-7. you may still come across the occasional serial number that may conflict with, or doesn't fall under any of the listed categories. If you would like to send us the following information, we will do our best to help you with your request. And the rest of the digits is the number of the guitar that came off the assembly line. Try: email protected On ESPs site: FAQs How can I date my ESP, LTD, or Xtone guitar ESP maintains limited production records.
This has resulted in alot of confusion, and. The first letter is the factory the guitar was made in (W is the Korean factory). 3038467 or 338467 means number 467) - lot of old esps does not have any serial on the back of the headstock.
sometimes in old guitars (80s early 90s) 1st and/or 3rd digit is missing when is '0' and the result is serials with 6 or 7 digits (ex. ESP Guitar Company says: "Unfortunately the factories at ESP Japan have not kept a consistent and sensible serial number tracking system in place over the years. You have to look at the models in production that year. I keep record of this data in order to try to deduce other correspondences. For old guitars we can only know the exact data reading the ESP warranty card (when there is), or unscrewing the neck (if the neck is bolt on) and read under it becuse probably theres the data write on pencil). Many records have been lost during years and most of all were destroyed in a fire accident on late '90s in ESP Japan factory. Unfortunally ESP didn't keep good records of old serial numbers.
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