Anyway what piqued my curiosity is that my serial no. It has the HSS pickup configuration with the split-coil bridge humbucker when you pull the tone knob.
Extensive research at other sites reveals that it was manufactured in 1988. All it needed was a little TLC with a Dunlop cleaning kit. What caught my eye was the pearloid inlay ' Epiphone by Gibson' in a big, bold font.
It has the 'hockey stick' headstock like your Explorer. The color is metallic black so it looks very stealthy. They had it marked incorrectly as an Epiphone Extreme? All original black hardware. I just picked up an Epiphone S800 at GC today(Labor Day). Its fitted with black hardware, and a locking tremolo, the humbuckers are split half white and half black, the serial # on a sticker on the headstock reads 880400161, I just played it end never thought of it really, but owning it for nearly 20 years now, it would be fun to know if this is a genuine thing or just some fake thing, as I have never really seen one like it, tnx in advance for any help! I own a black explorer, the headstock says ' Epiphone by Gibson', I bought the guitar second hand back in the very early 90`s sometime, so my guess is thats its built at least a few years ahead of that.
