is THIS a real gibson?!

[bandhro]

i found this last night and i don't know if it's just a fake... thank you.

 

[Mark]

YES its fake

[bandhro]

well, thank you. btw, someone is selling this right now as a 'real' gibson on ebay...

[MojoRedFoot]

LYNCH MOB!! That's a bad one.

[bandhro]

update: just sold for € 1000 on ebay. maybe it is an original after all? or the bidders just wasted a lot of their money. :)

[Mark]

Wasted their money, you can buy a copy/fake for $250.00.

 

I do know one think thats a fake theres no maybe about it.

[SamBooka]

guess it didnt get reported in time.f

Caveat emptor tra la la but when I see stuff like that I flag it.

[bandhro]

i told it ebay, but like you said, i guess it was too late.

[artmaker]

What a shame for whoever bought it....one of the worst fake jobs I have ever seen....

[spitball]

I would think anyone ready to pay that much for a guitar would recognize that as a fake, or do some research and ask around like bandhro did.

[lpdeluxe]

That's the truth. The local music store owner showed me a "Gibson" someone picked up in a pawnshop and wanted to trade in on a Martin -- he paid $600 for it (a flat-top acoustic) and expected about a grand credit toward the one he wanted.

 

It was a low-end MIC plywood beater, with a plastic applique that said "Gibson" slapped onto a decidedly non-Gibson headstock. It was such a POS that I was surprised to even find it at the store (the owner is very knowledgeable about guitars, and sold a couple of my more valuable pieces for quite a bit more than I paid for them, back in the day). It was what is called a "quarter-mile" fake: you could tell it was fake from a quarter mile away!

 

The dealer eventually convinced the guy it wasn't a "real" J45, and generously allowed him $100 on the trade in. I don't know what happened to it next: I never saw it again.