And this one appears to have a carved back with no cavity covers, like a real one.
Fortunately the “almost new” guitar would not have needed a re-fret so we shouldn’t see the frets going over the binding, but we do. Also the logo on the headstock isn’t quite right, it looks fine from a casual glance, but it isn’t right. The humbucker surrounds look pretty cheap as well and serial number seems to have been stamped in and then highlighted with white out/liquid paper/tip-ex, so yeah, fake.
Spotted by Peter Howard in the UK, this Les Paul Corvette is a lot more deceptive than the previous one shown on this website. For a start the headstock on this one is very close to the real one, the ‘Corvette’ inlay on the fretboard is almost in the same place as the original and the serial number is at least in the same ball park as a real one.
The truss rod cover on the genuine ones are a silver metallic with 1960 on them, there is also engraving featured on the pick up covers. The edge of the white area on the top of the body, (that is a slightly different shape to the fakes) should have a raised surround and the selector switch cavity cover should have special engraving.
Thank you Peter for your email and telling us about this newer copy of the Les Paul Corvette.
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