Steinberger bass serial numbers

There's a difference in serial number schemes for Steinberger USA instruments and the Spirit line. The latter uses the Epiphone serial number scheme, which you can check here.

Bernd

 

Well, the non-working link has to do with some stupid forum function censoring certain words with asterisks… I haven't noticed that when posting it. The missing part of the link is "…t a r d…" (I guess that's why it has been censored), the whole URL should read (without spaces in between) "g u i t a r d a t e r p r o j e c t . o r g".

 

I often wondered why it would do that when I’d try to help someone out with that link. Kinda funny actually in a demented sort of way

 

That link failed for me and I missed the follow-up posts explaining why (that's mad!). However, I found this which does the same job but less stylishly: http://www.epiphonewiki.org/index/Epiphone_Serial_Number_Decoding.php

 

That wiki list is somewhat flawed as it does not include a separate ‘E’ for Korean made Epiphone basses made at the Korean World factory in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.