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==General Information==
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===Disclaimer===
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'''This website is intended for educational and research purposes only in helping to accurately identify Epiphone brand guitars of the past and present.'''
'''This website is intended for educational and research purposes only in helping to accurately identify Epiphone brand guitars of the past and present.'''
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The information contained in this website may not be 100% complete or accurate and is a work in progress.
The information contained in this website may not be 100% complete or accurate and is a work in progress.
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We are the unofficial source of information for all Epiphone guitars and instruments. This website is not affiliated with the Epiphone Company or Gibson Guitar Corporation in any way. We do not deal in the buying or selling of instruments of any kind, nor do we offer evaluation services for your instruments.
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We are the unofficial source of information for all Epiphone guitars and instruments. This website is not affiliated with the Epiphone Company or Gibson Guitar Corporation in any way. We do not deal in the buying or selling of instruments of any kind, nor do we offer evaluation services for your instruments.
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===What the Epiphone Wiki does===
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* Provides a comprehensive list of Epiphone Intruments and other products.
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* Provides specifications for Epiphone instruments and products.
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* Provides Information to help identify Epiphone products.
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* Provides serial and model number decoding information for Epiphone products.
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* Provides images and accurate representations of Epiphone products.
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* Provides brief histories and facts pertaining to Epiphone products.
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* Links to arcticles on Wikipedia for related keywords and products.
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* We welcome informational contributions, corrections and additions to content.
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===What the Epiphone Wiki does NOT do===
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* We do not buy or sell musical instruments or products.
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* We do not help to locate discontinued parts or products.
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* We do not evaluate or set monetary values on instruments or products.
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* We do not run advertisements on the Epiphone Wiki.
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* We do not charge a fee for content or information.
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* We do not accept donations of any kind.
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* We do not allow registration or outside editing of content.
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==About the Epiphone Wiki==
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===The Original Epi-Wiki===
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The original "Epi-Wiki" was started in 2008 by two Australian teenagers with a love for Epiphone and a desire to make a comprehensive list of products and specification relating the the Epiphone company. As an open wiki, the original Epi-Wiki was available for editing to anyone that was a member of the related forum. Due to a lack of interest from most forum members, the Epi-Wiki didnt recieve much content but provided motivation and the basis for the current incarnation of the Epiphone Wiki. Despite this, the original Epi-Wiki recieved much praise as a potential source of information from Epiphone fans across the inernet. After almost two years with little in the way of content, an apparent lack of funding, as well as interest, forced the Epi-Wiki to close its doors sometime in 2010.
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===The Epiphone Strat & Telecaster Guide===
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In 2009, I began a project called the "Epiphone Strat & Telecaster Guide". Compiling information from the Epi-Wiki, catalogs, websites and other sources, I created a website specifically designed to catalog information about the Epiphone S-Series and T-Series instruments. Inluded in this was a spec sheet from the 1998 Epiphone catalog as a means to help support some of my information.
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At the time, there were many question on many different message boards asking about the Epiphone S & T-Series guitars. Many people had never seen them before and others thought that they might be fake or counterfeit Epiphone products. Queries about these models were cropping up on a weekly basis, and many people were left with questions unanswered. Realizing this, I decided it was time to research these models and put the information on a website for everyone to see. The Strat & Tele guide was a success and people started were able to gain information about their mysterious Epiphone Strat & Tele-like guitars. With nearly 100,000 hits, the Strat & Tele Guide went offline for good in November, 2013. Currently, the Epiphone Wiki covers all of the information in the Strat & Tele Guide with more accurate and updated specifications.
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===The Epiphone Wiki===
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Sometime around late 2009/early 2010 we started seeing signs that the Epi-Wiki was in trouble. The owner, at the time, was asking if anyone was interested in taking over and continuing the project. Myself and another person expressed our interest, but never got word from the current Wiki owner on whether or not he was ready to pass it on to us. Sometime in early 2010, the Epi-Wiki went offline never to return and without a word from its owners.
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Shorty after this, I painstakingly searched for, an saved, every cached page from the Epi-Wiki that I could find. My thought was that even if the Wiki was gone, I still may be able to answer some guitar related question with the remnants of the website. The Strat & Tele Guide was still going strong and saw an increase in traffic as the Epi-Wiki cached pages started to disappear from search engines. During this time I tossed around the idea of starting a new wiki where the old Epi-Wiki left off. Myself and fellow forum member & friend, Greg (R.I.P.), bounced ideas back and forth for several months before taking any actions. Greg had his own project of compiling a database of info and links to anything guitar related, but was instrumental in setting the direction of the wiki project and provided much encouragement to get things off the ground. We decided that the best course of action was to contact another individual (that previously showed interest in taking over the original Epi-Wiki) to partner with me for this project.
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Agreeing to take on the project, my new parnter Sjael and I quickly began to formulate a plan to create a new Epiphone related wiki. On January 14, 2011, I bought the epiphonewiki.com domain. Sjael provided the hosting and set up the wiki program shortly afterward. Our original idea was to use the information from the original Epi-Wiki as a starting point for the new Wiki. Quickly learning that the information structure was different than what we had in mind for our own website, we scrapped that plan and strated from scratch. Very little info from the original wiki ended up being used for the website you see today. Much of the info was readily available from other sources. As well, these other sources were more accurate and complete. The Epi-Wiki cached pages became mostly a supporting reference guide for cross-checking information and listing some specifications that we hadnt yet obtained from other sources. Today, little, if any, information from the original wiki can be found on the current Epiphone Wiki website. Much of it has been corrected, added upon or deleted altogther due to inaccuracies.
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On January 15, 2012, our good friend, confidante and inspiration & motivation for the wiki, Grag, passed away due to lung cancer. His project of compliled guitar and guitar-related information now takes up permanant residence here on the Epiphone Wiki.
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* '''''See - [[Animalfarm's DIY List]]'''''
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On January 14, 2013, on the two-year anniversary of the Epiphone Wiki, we suffered a major server meltdown and lost about 75% of the information contained in the wiki. Between old backups, cached pages and the Wayback Machine, we were able to recover about 80% of the info that we had lost. We spent a solid three months putting the pieces of the wiki back together. During this time, we decided to bring another friend onboard who is knowledgable in Epiphone guitars and related products to help expidite the recovery. This proved to be a good move and the recovery was mostly completed in a timely fashion. With few exceptions, the Epiphone Wiki is back to its original state. Some pages ended up better than they were previously, and other small details have yet to be re-included to the wiki. This does not, however, take away from the vast resouce of information that is the Epiphone Wiki. As the remaining older details slowly makes their way back to these pages, new information, corrections and additions are being disocevered all the time. We welcome any info that anyone wants to provide, but some info may take a little longer to add as we attempt to prioritize our duties.
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==Fair Use Notice==
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This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of Epiphone brand instruments. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of Epiphone brand instruments. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
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