There were some doubts about how real the new Gibson bumblebee caps were. I was told by a friend the caps that Gibson installs these days in its Historic Custom Shop guitars weren't real bumblebees at all. We wanted to find out for sure so my pal ( who is a vet ) x-rayed one and opened one from his R9 LP. This is the result:
Photo of both caps. One is real and the other one is a modern cap labeled as bumbleblee cap by Gibson :
We x-ray the real one and this is the result:
We x-ray the new one and ... What the heck is this?
My friend got his pen knife out and found a decent ( yet plastic ) Wesco capacitor within the fancier bumblebee clone:
Isn't that outrageous or what??!!