What does the serial number on a gibson guitar mean. Gibson guitar serial numbers are like a lot of serial number systems from guitar manufacturers a complicated beast. Now the first five digits correspond the production date. For earlier guitars or if this tool fails you can use the pot decoder to get a date of manufacture for the pots.
The pattern is as follows. A serial number of 80196xxx means the production date is 11986 while 202857xxx stands for 10122007. Ydddyrrr yy is the production year ddd is the day of the year rrr is the factory rankingplant designation number.
Use the blue book of electric guitars available for free at gibsons website to date your instrument if it has a different type of serial number. But with a little bit of research you should be able to find out when your gibson was built and in some cases where. Enter your gibson guitars 8 or 9 digit serial number in the box below to find the date of manufacture.
Contact the gibson guitar corporation itself. For example the serial number 81449243 means the guitar was the 243rd instrument made on the 144th day of 1989. The serial number will be an 8 digit number impressed into the back of the headstock with made in usa below.
From 2014 onwards gibson changed the serial number format to a simplified 9 digit number which can still be used to find the year of manufacture. The sixth number is now a batch number batch 0 starts at the beginning of the day and once we stamp 699 the batch number will change to 1. Note gibson usa goes to a 9 digit serial number in early july 2005.
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