I tried to make a funny by saying that Casinos made at that factory were better than Casinos made at other offshore factories. I thought that qualified as valuable information (to me, as an owner of one of these - possibly even some 'lore' that surrounds that instrument.) It was apparently made at the Unsong factory, judging from the factory code list posted earlier.

My 2005 Epiphone Casino is IMHO a high quality instrument made in Korea.

I feel I have misled and perhaps offended. I do think it's cool that my guitar was manufactured in a land where elephants live though! And Indonesia certainly has a woodworking tradition that goes way, way back. In other words, I'm more interested in Gibson and Epiphone than Samick, who just set their machines to _ specs. The Les Paul is an American guitar with a specifically American history, no matter where it's made nowadays. It's the design that counts, and the name. This is just me, but what makes me feel good about my Les Paul is sitting down and reading a book about the Gibson and the Epiphone companies. wherever) is rightly shot down as snobbery. Nor am I going to try to find proof that the Indonesian models are better than the Chinese or Korean ones, when that kind of thing (when it concerns US models vs. I'm not going to attach any lore where there isn't any though. Which is not to say that I don't love my Indonesian Epiphone LP 100, far from it. I just don't see it being a very rewarding pursuit when you're looking at guitars that are licensed copies made by factories that crank them out for all comers. I fully understand the interest you speak of, having been under its spell for a long time.

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