Gibson’s Guitar Of The Month program had come out with some great pieces, some have been so popular that they have gone on to be reissued, Reverse Flying V anyone? Most of these interesting and sometimes quite experimental versions of Gibson’s best will never be repeated and in most cases go on to be very collectable due to their limited numbers.
I was therefore very surprised to find a Gibson SG3 for sale on a Chinese site selling fake Gibson’s. This is going to be painfully bad, I thought to myself, until I saw the pictures. Absolutely spot on in every detail, I couldn’t see anything wrong at all. How could they get away with that? Well, a closer look revealed the eBay watermark in the right hand corner. Beware sites selling Gibson guitars at $363.20 plus postage, usually the fakes are obvious, but now they use pictures that they have lifted from legitimate listings to coax you into buying, then they send you the 山寨 (Mountain Village – Definition: Forgery).
