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This thread is ranking in the Top #10 in China now 

They CAN make perfect Gibson copies.This thread is ranking in the Top #10 in China now![]()
hmmmm, good question. Perhaps Tom Murphy would be good to ask, he as experience with making a real gibson faked to look like a real 1959, I mean imitated, I mean replicating, actually....ahhhh, I just confused myself.This is a purely hypothetical question. I know, no one would ever want to do that, but just for argument's sake...
What could we do to a genuine Gibson to fool someone into thinking it's a fake?
For whatever reason, this crazy thought happened to pop into my mind, today, and I think there's no way to achieve this.
Let's say you wanted to have a Gibson appear to be a good fake. This means that it would have to look like some master counterfeiter was trying to make it look real, so it would have to have genuine Gibson components. If it was, hypothetically speaking, a great counterfeit, there would always have to be something that would not look right, so an expert would be able to tell it is a fake.
So, now, if we wanted to fool an expert into thinking that a real Gibson was just a good fake, what would we do to it?
I really can't think of anything that one could do.
It's hopeless, LOL.
Again... a target market that doesn't care whether or not it is real.Their target market doesn’t use English letters.
The Asian market is huge.
What could we do to a genuine Gibson to fool someone into thinking it's a fake?
Mask and tint the back of the headstock to make it look like it has a scarf joint.
The first thing I thought of was the bridge with screws which someone else said very early on. Another really easy thing would be an "off" truss-rod cover to say something like "Les Paul" in script, and then underneath that have "Standard" in block letters. Maybe even also mis-spell "Standard". How about adding some Chinese writing in the control cavity?
Put it in a big ass Styrofoam box wrapped in yellow tape then get a middle aged man with his ass hanging out of his jeans to slowly cut through the tape with a box cutter.
When unboxed get him to say 'this will be a great guitar once I have changed the pickups, wiring, tuners, bridge and nut'
Boom, instant fake looking LP
Are you saying my 1974 is a fake?!?!
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Pics of the whole guitar is going to make a difference?Pic of the whole guitar or you're an asshole!
Pics of the whole guitar is going to make a difference?
This is a purely hypothetical question. I know, no one would ever want to do that, but just for argument's sake...
What could we do to a genuine Gibson to fool someone into thinking it's a fake?
For whatever reason, this crazy thought happened to pop into my mind, today, and I think there's no way to achieve this.
Let's say you wanted to have a Gibson appear to be a good fake. This means that it would have to look like some master counterfeiter was trying to make it look real, so it would have to have genuine Gibson components. If it was, hypothetically speaking, a great counterfeit, there would always have to be something that would not look right, so an expert would be able to tell it is a fake.
So, now, if we wanted to fool an expert into thinking that a real Gibson was just a good fake, what would we do to it?
I really can't think of anything that one could do.
It's hopeless, LOL.
Edit--there was a guy in Nashville a few years ago who imported several (dozen +) good fakes and sold them to Pawn shops in Nashville. He managed to fool 11 (eleven) pawn shops--no small feat in Nashville.