The ESP Guitar Company

jeff e. wrote:

Hi I have just purchaed a second hand LTD EC 1000 Deluxe in green. The serial number is W09070436, can you please enlighten me on how to read it, thanks in advance

Hello Jeff,

There are two major parts to older serial numbers that can be used to determine the production time frame and geographical origin. The letter prefix will indicate in which country the instrument was produced, in this case Korea. The first and second digit of the serial number will provide the year of production, in this case 2009. The remaining digits are not taken into consideration as each factory uses differing organizations of these remaining digits to track their production. 

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