brians356 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 (I posted this under "Other Gibson Electrics / Archtops" by mistake yesterday. No interest over there, and it belongs under "Acoustics" anyway.) Anyone heard of Super 400 knock-offs out there? I've heard all about Chinese Les Pauls, some Gretsch, etc. but never Super 400s. I saw one the other day that was obviously fake, laughable, really, from closer than 10 feet. But I can't find any anecdotal evidence about fake Super 400s specifically on the Internet. I got some pictures of the "Super 400" from the owner and sent them to Gibson Service. A chap there replied: "Thanks for sending the pictures. The instrument in question does not appear consistent with a real Gibson. There have been a lot of counterfeit instruments come into the USA from internet auction sites. They are illegal to sell or resell here in the USA. Thanks." So my dream find, a Super 400 for $900, turned out to be a curio, like a Hong Kong Rolex. I gave the bad news to the owner. "Caveat emptor" for you collectors, not that anyone on this forum would have been fooled. What amazes me is that some factory in China (presumably) would think a Super 400 acoustic worth knocking off, seeing as how they could sell 100 times as many Les Paul or 335 copies. What 16-year-old garage band hopeful on the Internet would be tempted buy an archtop acoustic from their great grandpa's era? Put another way, no one who appreciates archtop acoustics from the Golden Era could possibly have been fooled by a crude fake -- could they?:) Anyone curious about pics I will e-mail a couple on request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchabalk Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 i'd love to see the pix. you could post 'em here? i'll pm you my email too. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 When I was a 16 year-old garage rocker delinquent I was a big fan of the Nuge, Malcolm Young, Izzy Stradlin, Scotty Moore... anybody who ripped on big, hollow, SINGLE-cutaway gibsons (to me anyways) was/is cooler than cool. Killer players also played 335s (Chuck Berry) but as a kid I saw so many ******s with backwards newsboy caps playing double-cutaways.... ruined the 335-type for me. Long story short, I'd have scooped one up on the cheap, fake or not. And being a delinquent I mighta liked a counterfeit just fine. Somehow I doubt that I was the last 16 year-old garage rocker delinquent who looked at it like that. I hope so anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brians356 Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 I hear you brundaddy, but is this is a non-cutaway acoustic, not an electric. About as useful in a garage band as teats on a boar hog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Yeah, if'n you can post the pics here, we'd love to see them. While email works, There is a certain risk to receiving emails form vertual unknown persons. While I like your style, Brians356, but, we only just met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 If it's too good to be true...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brians356 Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 ... it probably is. But you'd still have to see for yourself. "Never up, never in." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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