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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.

From Ivan in Belgium;

“I was searching for fake gibsons and found this website. I would like to send pictures of a fake Les paul Premium, that I was given some years ago the opportunity to buy of someone I know. I live in the flemish speaking part of Belgium. The case looked allright, but when I saw the guitar I realised this could not be a true one.

I asked the man who sold it, if I could take it home with me to test it, in which he agreed. At home I looked closer, and searched the internet. Though it had a serial number (01433944, thus made in 2003, march 23 in Nashville, USA), I found different mistakes:

- the colour scheme of the body looked cheap
- the logo should say ‘premium’ but wasn’t readable (i believe there were only 3.000 made)
- the truss rod cover had three screws
- it said les paul standard, where it was a so called rare les paul model
- the bridge come out of the body
- the tuners didn’t lie flat on the back of the headstock, neither did they on the front of it

I don’t believe that the person who tried to sell it, didn’t know it was a real one. He told me he bought it on the internet.”

Thank you Ivan for taking the time to email us, there are plenty of fake Les Paul Supremes out there, they are nothing to do with the Les Paul Premium.