Ok, it’s not a real Gibson, the price is so low it’s ridiculous, (mid $300′s), it has the usual bad headstock, a truss rod cover with “Les Paul Standard” printed on it, no case, a rosewood fretboard, a pickup selector switch surround with gold print (real ones have white) which overlaps the “This bourbon…” statement on the body, which is not obscured on the real ones. Also the description states;
“This a brand new guitar. The sound quality of this guitar is absolutely marvelous. I believe this instrument will please most discriminative professional player. This style professonal guitar is compelely new and nice. ”
And I didn’t edit that to sound like I was putting on my best Charlie Chan voice, that was copy n’ paste from the website, spelling mistakes n’ all. These are rare guitars, they are not available new and they are expensive.
The real Les Paul Jim Beam (above), was part of a corporate sponsorship program, a bunch of companies had some Les Paul’s done; Jim Beam, Budweiser, Indian Motorcycles amongst others. According to Gibson about 75 were made of the Jim Beam model and there are some obvious differences between the real and the fake.
The real Jim Beam Les Paul is basically a Les Paul Studio with an unbound ebony fretboard, top hat control knobs, chrome hardware, Jim Beam insignia on the headstock and a plain truss rod cover.
