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Old 10-26-2009, 03:48 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Re: FAKE Gibson Les Pauls (Chinese Copies)

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There's a local shop with a ZW bullseye hanging in it, which confused me because they had no other Gibsons and only a used Epi LP100 hanging among some Vintage Icon series LP shaped guitars. Couldn't figure out why they had a few thousand dollar signature fiddle next to the rest of them until I asked.
I guess it's MIC fake on consignment, so I asked to play it. The neck was terrible (back was painted and sticky feeling), the fake EMGs were terrible (I doubt they're even active, looks like EMG covers but instead of having stamped EMG painted logos they were just painted on) and it played worse then any of the other LP type guitars in the place. I made a passing remark inquiring about what the guy was asking for it, for curiosity sake, and it was somewhere in the 4 digits...I just laughed, got some new strings and walked out.
Ran into a similar thing at a local pawn shop in Indiana (EZ Pawn 38th street - Indianapolis). I mentioned to a salesman that their ZW was fake (they have $2300 priced on it) and I was asked to leave the store. I really thought I'd have a chance to educate them, but nope.

I sent the info to Benton Cummings at Gibson, and he forwarded it to their legal dept. Perhaps the pawn shop got duped, but they need to take their lumps and chuck that piece of garbage!
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