Serial Number Check?
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Should be from around 2000. Basswood body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard. Licensed Floyd, Duncan Designed pickups.
You can find out more from the catalog: https://dk1xgl0d43mu1.cloudfront.net/user_files/esp/downloads/000/000/084/ESP-2000-Catalog.pdf?1392144605 -
Definitely 80s, retains a lot of the look of the Kramers they were building then. Separate HS and body serial numbers were common. Necks were made at different times than bodies.
Don't get worked up about "custom shop" because what that would have meant in the 80s vs what that means today are two completely different things. They were just putting bodies from one area together with a neck from another area and maybe painting them ordered colors. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's a very nice guitar, but there wasn't a separate "custom shop" making higher quality guitars in those days. -
It's a 2016. ESP didn't start with the model number on the truss rod cover until late 2017, when they removed the model name from the 12th fret (which was the case on most models.)
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Hello.
I just bought ESP LTD SC-20 See Thru Green Stephen Carpenter signature model and it has been as a model guitar in a shop, so I'd like to know a little bit of a background story of this beauty. What would be the year of manufacture and if you could tell me some other factory information? These are basically stupid questions, cause this model was re-issued last year as a 20 year celebration of Stephen's first signature model, but thank you beforehand.