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It’s all in the headstock, the person selling this is sure they are selling the real thing but seriously, would you buy it?
It’s called a Zakk Wylde Les Paul CUSTOM dude, like with the Les Paul CUSTOM “Split Diamond” inlay on the headstock, you know, the one that’s MISSING from your guitar.

Also, and this is a picture worth remembering, the back of the headstock has a fake serial number,

notice that it is in the style of the regular Gibson guitars, a real custom shop guitar has a completely different style of serial number, printed – not stamped in like this one, and for the record the Zakk Wylde ones start with ZW. Oh, and the silhouette is also incorrect

There are so many of these Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom guitars about, and many are thought to be genuine. If you’re going to buy one check the following: If the pickup selector switch has a surround, it’s not legit. If it appears to have a one piece maple neck, forget it, the real ones have a three piece. The volume and tone pots are speed dials, a lot of the forgeries have top hats with silver insert dials. It’s a custom shop guitar – it has a different type of serial number to the 9 digits you get on a Gibson USA guitar and it’s printed on, not stamped in, a real Zakk Wylde number starts with ZW.