There are so many of these Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom guitars about, and many are thought to be genuine. If you’re going to buy one check the following: If the pickup selector switch has a surround, it’s not legit. If it appears to have a one piece maple neck, forget it, the real ones have a three piece. The volume and tone pots are speed dials, a lot of the forgeries have top hats with silver insert dials. It’s a custom shop guitar – it has a different type of serial number to the 9 digits you get on a Gibson USA guitar and it’s printed on, not stamped in, a real Zakk Wylde number starts with ZW.
Zakk Wylde Counterfeit Custom
June 29th, 2008
Suspect Supreme
June 23rd, 2008
This white guitar is supposed to be a Les Paul Supreme, the headstock shape is slightly off, though the inlaid “Supreme” motif may sway some into thinking it’s genuine. lf you’re looking at getting a Les Paul Supreme from an unknown source check that the back of the body is carved and not flat. The fake Les Paul Supremes that I have seen have a flat back with the usual Les Paul cavity covers where the pots and selector switch are wired in. A real Les Paul Supreme does not have these cavity covers as the back is all carved wood.
The Supreme motif looks reasonable and the truss rod cover isn’t an immediate give away but the shape of the headstock tells us that the name on it is the only thing this guitar has in common with a real Gibson guitar.
