This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
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eclecticsynergy
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
The horn looks slightly wrong to me, but it might just be the photo. I do think the headstock is too long to be genuine.
Kinda hard to tell but it also looks as if this one might have the wider Chibson-type bridge posts.
Don't all LP Supremes have highly flamed tops?
The horn looks slightly wrong to me, but it might just be the photo. I do think the headstock is too long to be genuine.
Kinda hard to tell but it also looks as if this one might have the wider Chibson-type bridge posts.
Don't all LP Supremes have highly flamed tops?
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beaubrummels
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
Not a match, and the board goes back. Next contestant...
Not a match, and the board goes back. Next contestant...
Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
The pictures are awful quality (maybe on purpose?) But the fretboard looks rosewood and it should be ebony. The fretboard inlays look like mother of toilet seat but they should be true pearl. The logo looks off (the little flat that says Supreme should be white pearl but it's abalone) and the circle part looks a little stretched out. The nut looks like a plastic epiphone nut. The gold hardware looks like the cheap epiphone "gold" hardware. The body shape does also look slightly off to me. Maybe if you'd have some higher res pictures it'd be easier to tell
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The pictures are awful quality (maybe on purpose?) But the fretboard looks rosewood and it should be ebony. The fretboard inlays look like mother of toilet seat but they should be true pearl. The logo looks off (the little flat that says Supreme should be white pearl but it's abalone) and the circle part looks a little stretched out. The nut looks like a plastic epiphone nut. The gold hardware looks like the cheap epiphone "gold" hardware. The body shape does also look slightly off to me. Maybe if you'd have some higher res pictures it'd be easier to tell
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RorySquier
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
The bottom of the head-stock has an Epiphone vibe to it.
;>)/
The bottom of the head-stock has an Epiphone vibe to it.
;>)/
NegativeEase
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
The throat of the headstock is too long -the are only just a smidge longer than the nut to first fret distance on a real Gibson.
The throat of the headstock is too long -the are only just a smidge longer than the nut to first fret distance on a real Gibson.
allbutromeo
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
As in the picture posted by eclecticsynergy, the G in the logo should almost be touching the D-string tuner, and the "Supreme logo should be a depiction of a globe, not just an abalone circle
As in the picture posted by eclecticsynergy, the G in the logo should almost be touching the D-string tuner, and the "Supreme logo should be a depiction of a globe, not just an abalone circle
Chistopher
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
For reference, here's a real headstock:
For reference, here's a real headstock:
Boogie Bill
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
I have two Supremes and this one looks off to me.
They did do these in the Desert Burst finish, but the guitars have a 5A flamed maple cap, front and back, on a semi-hollow body. No back control plate; electronics only accessible through an enlarged jackplate.
Mine are Root Beer and the HCSB. I know they also came in a Transparent Black, Natural, and solid Black and I believe White.
Pickups s/b 490R-498T. I swapped those for Seth Lovers in one of mine and those totally transformed the guitar into a very versatile guitar.
The neck has a unique rounded profile, not a '59, not a Slim-Taper.
Semi-hollow, but not lightweight...mine weigh 8.9 and 9.1 lbs., after subbing in LW aluminum tailpieces and Schaller Straplocks.
Cases must be extra depth to accommodate the additional thickness of the back cap, and all I have seen are white plush, with a satin blanket. It's a thicker guitar than the Standard.
Workmanship on my guitars is superb.
Bill
I have two Supremes and this one looks off to me.
They did do these in the Desert Burst finish, but the guitars have a 5A flamed maple cap, front and back, on a semi-hollow body. No back control plate; electronics only accessible through an enlarged jackplate.
Mine are Root Beer and the HCSB. I know they also came in a Transparent Black, Natural, and solid Black and I believe White.
Pickups s/b 490R-498T. I swapped those for Seth Lovers in one of mine and those totally transformed the guitar into a very versatile guitar.
The neck has a unique rounded profile, not a '59, not a Slim-Taper.
Semi-hollow, but not lightweight...mine weigh 8.9 and 9.1 lbs., after subbing in LW aluminum tailpieces and Schaller Straplocks.
Cases must be extra depth to accommodate the additional thickness of the back cap, and all I have seen are white plush, with a satin blanket. It's a thicker guitar than the Standard.
Workmanship on my guitars is superb.
Bill
redwine006
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Re: This Les Paul Supreme looks soooo fake, but I want to believe!
If my eyes are seeing right, the bridge looks like an epiphone one with adjustment screws instead of thumbwheels. Also, the horn is not right either. That is generally enough to convince me. I busted a guy selling a fake Gibson on Craigslist a few years ago. I started doing a lot of research on them after I almost got burned myself on a Les Paul custom replica when they first started surfacing everywhere. Most are relatively easy to point out, but there are some that if you don't get a good look or start tearing into it, you wouldn't be able to tell. Especially if they're using genuine parts and correct templates for the body shape.
If my eyes are seeing right, the bridge looks like an epiphone one with adjustment screws instead of thumbwheels. Also, the horn is not right either. That is generally enough to convince me. I busted a guy selling a fake Gibson on Craigslist a few years ago. I started doing a lot of research on them after I almost got burned myself on a Les Paul custom replica when they first started surfacing everywhere. Most are relatively easy to point out, but there are some that if you don't get a good look or start tearing into it, you wouldn't be able to tell. Especially if they're using genuine parts and correct templates for the body shape.
