Standard Fake Les Paul Standard

July 15th, 2009

Ho hum, amazed these are still being chucked around as “genuine made in the U.S.A.”. From a distance you have to say, hmm, ok, that’s a Les Paul, but then look at the inside of the case lid, hmm, that looks a bit different to the one I saw for sale at the dealers, kinda sunken in a bit, funny coloured/colored lining too and there’s no shroud.

Weird, it says it’s a Gibson Custom, Art, Historic case, maybe that’s it, though surely that comes with the top of the line stuff, not a regular LP Standard!

Still, it must be a real Gibson Les Paul, look, it has Gibson on the headstock and… on the truss rod cover… with possibly three screws hidden from view by the way the photo is cropped… Aww crap, it’s a fake.

3 Years In The Slammer

July 12th, 2009


Old news but good news. For those not acquainted with paylessguitar or musoland here is a quick summary; Fakes, fakes n’ more fakes. These were two of the names that were selling, (through several websites) a lot of fake Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, Gretsch, PRS and Ibanez guitars, many of which have been featured here on fibsons.com. Well after years of work by Gibson and the EGACC the websites that were selling these knock offs have been shut down and the person behind them, Li Dan, has been sentanced to 3 years jail time.

Read Ellen Mallernee’s report over on Gibson.com here.

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