Apparently, it clearly *isn't* a fake...

HarrySeven

This.

Legionreturns

But it's got a screen dump of the Gibson website so it must be real! 

TheMarlin

Hmmm. I can see a whole bunch of stuff wrong with it. Chancer!

Sporky

Ha ha - "paypal is playing up so COD only".

Funkfingers

Does this mean that you are looking for a new donor guitar for the Fender Floating Vibrato project?

tony99

unique

Sporky

tony99 said:

unique

Which is odd from a mass production company...

fandango

Ha, no strings or tuning pegs, so you've no opportunity to hear what it sounds like when you pitch up for a demo.

And why can't the seller be bothered to get the tuners fitted and restrung, so to sell it as a playable guitar? Because maybe it isn't playable and sounds like an Ancelotti and Anastacia duet. Lazy.

tony99

fandango said:

Ha, no strings or tuning pegs, so you've no opportunity to hear what it sounds like when you pitch up for a demo.

And why can't the seller be bothered to get the tuners fitted and restrung, so to sell it as a playable guitar? Because maybe it isn't playable and sounds like an Ancelotti and Anastacia duet. Lazy.

You'd still be able to hear the sustain I imagine.

TheMarlin

He's taken it down. 

fandango

TheMarlin said:

He's taken it down. 

Click on "see original listing" and scroll down ...

Funkfingers

At least, the Epiphone truss rod cover plate is genuine.

The only Gibson humbucking pickup that I have ever seen with twelve exposed non-adjustable slug polepieces is one I constructed myself from the working halves of an abused 498T/490R pair.

Sassafras

I've got cork tiles in my bathroom that look almost identical to the top on that.

Funkfingers

I cannot quite decide whether that top is a veneer or a photograph of a veneer - like the Fender Fotoflame series of the Nineties.

So many things on that guitar are incorrect for an American-made Les Paul. Not even the worst Norlin era tops exhibit a top carve as shallow as that thing.

prowla

The seller now has an Epiphone SG up - seems alright.

Teyeplayer

Amazed he didn't just go all out with some waffle about being hand crafted at Szechuan's famed 'Gibson' factory.

Funkfingers

The SG looks straight but the description is slightly erroneous. The neck/Rhythm position pickup is not Gibson USA. It is a standard Epiphone design - very probably their interpretation of the '57 Classic.

At the starting price, the listing could be regarded as a pre-owned (but unidentified) Duncan humbucker with a free Epiphone guitar attached.