What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

[man-in-moon]

A guy is wanting to trade me this and is arguing that it's real. But I've never seen one before.

[MetalManiac]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

It's a real fake.

[dystrust]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

A guy is wanting to trade me this and is arguing that it's real. But I've never seen one before.
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I haven't either. The fingerboard & binding are wrong for one. Gibson didn't do 'Custom' appointments with rosewood fingerboards until the Classic Custom series a few years ago, and none of them have the backs of the bodies bound. Without more / better pictures it's hard to tell, but the bridge looks like an import and the headstock size & inlays are questionable.

Taken collectively, I seriously doubt that it's real.

[man-in-moon]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

Yeah it screams fake to me. I'm trying to get him to send a pic of the serial number.

[BriGuy1968]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

Don't Gibsons usually have traps for inlays? (Real question there, cuz I'm not sure).

Nice looking guitar though, real or not. I guess to me it would depend on what he wants to trade for.

[AlexR]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

Don't bother with the ser#

There is practically no element of the construction of that guitar that is accurate.

Hang on, after a second look you can drop 'practically' from the above sentence.

[dystrust]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

Don't Gibsons usually have traps for inlays? (Real question there, cuz I'm not sure).

Nice looking guitar though, real or not. I guess to me it would depend on what he wants to trade for.

A Les Paul Custom should have blocks on an ebony board. LP Standards (and some Studios) have traps on rosewood.

[PFDarkside]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

It looks like one of those Gibson knockoff brands from the 90's.

[2ndhandband]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

It's a fake. Sadly that means it's probably a better guitar.

[beaubrummels]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

I'll trade him my used Squire Mini for it, only if he pays me the difference in value.

[man-in-moon]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

I'm just seeing how far he will take it. He said he will get me more pics in the morning. That it is at his house in a safe lol. He wants to trade it for my charvel pro mod San Dimas I just got.

[BriGuy1968]

What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

He wants to trade it for my charvel pro mod San Dimas I just got.

Hmmmm.... let me think....


NO!!!!!!

[MetalManiac]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

It's a fake. Sadly that means it's probably a better guitar.

Aren't you supposed to put a smiley face next to an absurd comment like that? Probaby reflects on your ridiculous knowledge of guitars to insinuate a cheap Chinese knockoff is better than a USA Gibson.

[beaubrummels]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

I'm just seeing how far he will take it. He said he will get me more pics in the morning. That it is at his house in a safe lol. He wants to trade it for my charvel pro mod San Dimas I just got.

Real quick get an Alibaba strat and spray paint it slime green and put a couple Epi buckers in it. He won't know the difference. Tell him it's just as authentic as his Gibson. Which literally will be truth in advertising.

[Wattage]

Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content

Yeah I be hard pressed to figure a way to call that a real Gibby

I'd also try to find something besides a Crate SS practice amp to put behind it