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Is this one a fake?


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This is not a guitar that left the factory....notice all the fixed hack marks all over the body.

 

It looks like the body had to be altered because the neck is mounted in the 'wrong' place.

 

It MIGHT actually be a genuine vintage Gibson neck, but it has been hack as well....so it wouldn't be worth anything.

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It's fake. The headstock has no ears. The body is home made and not even a shape I have ever seen Gibson build. Cool looking guitar though. I might give $200 for it if it comes with the case which is real.

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It looks like something from a young up-and-coming luthier from the late 70s. Reminds me of Hagstrom and early BC Rich. It's as if there was a teenage KISS, Zeppelin, or Thin Lizzy fan who couldn't afford a real LP, and Epis weren't around yet, and the lawsuit guitars were starting to fade away from our neck of the woods. (y'know, after Ibanez got the big no-no from Norlin Inc....).

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I knew I'd seen that distinctive angled stop-tail 'back-in-the-day'.

 

It, the bridge and possibly other bits of hardware are from a mid-'70s Guild such as this one;

 

Guildad.jpg

 

The p-ups on the guit in the ad are one DiMarzio 'PAF' and one 'Super Distortion' so it's almost certain this is the donor instrument.

 

The neck on the OP instrument might be from a real Gibson but that's about it.

 

Looks pretty well made and the parts are worth a certain amount on their own.

 

It might even play and sound very good!

 

P.

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