Ventura guitar serial numbers8/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This effort was cut short by the decision to disassemble the acoustic guitar business after the 1978 model year. The reason for this is that there is no reliable documentation from this time period. Serial numbers from 70' and 80's era Epiphone guitars made in Japan are not supported. Vintage numbers from 1932 to 1970 are supported. The Epiphone serial number decoder currently supports 12 serial number formats from 25 factories. The JV is loaded with three Fender X-1 pickups which read in the region of 7 ohms, it was quite common with early JVs to install X-1 pickups and this can be verified on the 21frets website. As seen in the pics the serial number is in the 300's and corresponding neck date of 15th April 1982, only days after manufacture of these guitars started. The prefix is the last one or two digits of the production year, and it applies to all models below. All guitars and basses have serial numbers which start with a year prefix.
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