Chibson Time!

HarrySeven

Here

xmrchi

Spalted veneer top, emgs... Classy Chibson!!!

GazLion

:-&

chrisj1602

Awful.

Sassafras

Is it my imagination or do all those Chibsons have the exact same serial number?

OilCityPickups

Blurrrrrgggggggg 

axisus

What are the black bits below the bridge?

I wouldn't mind a Chibson to mod to be honest.

bingefeller

axisus said:

What are the black bits below the bridge?

I wouldn't mind a Chibson to mod to be honest.

I think they might be the thumbprints of the nice man / lady who put the finish on it.  

hobbio

Reported, but I doubt eBay will do anything. I might start emailing details of the stuff I report to trading standards too, including the fact that I've reported to eBay and no action was taken.

Bastards.

WezV

bingefeller said:

axisus said:

What are the black bits below the bridge?

I wouldn't mind a Chibson to mod to be honest.

I think they might be the thumbprints of the nice man / lady who put the finish on it.  

on a burl it would be a bark instrusion.  here it was probably a bad bit of spalt that crumbled away completely and needed to be filled.   I has some beautiful splated maple, but most of its texture was like sponge and it crumbled when touched.  I have had good results stabilising small areas of crumbly spalt before, but sometimes its just too far gone

ToneControl

hobbio said:

Reported, but I doubt eBay will do anything. I might start emailing details of the stuff I report to trading standards too, including the fact that I've reported to eBay and no action was taken.

Bastards.

http://www2.gibson.com/Support/Report-Counterfeits.aspx ;

Sassafras

To be fair to the seller, he's not touting it as a Gibson but he's a bit naughty by showing the peghead logo.

hobbio

ToneControl said:

hobbio said:

Reported, but I doubt eBay will do anything. I might start emailing details of the stuff I report to trading standards too, including the fact that I've reported to eBay and no action was taken.

Bastards.

http://www2.gibson.com/Support/Report-Counterfeits.aspx ;

Thanks, reported! Do Fender have the same sort of thing @MattFGBI?

MattFGBI

ukqueries@fender.com 

You can let us know there and we will try and take stuff off eBay etc. It's quite tricky, we have to jump through many hoops. 

hobbio

Thanks mate, I shall bear that in mind.

p90fool

That really is terrible. I can understand them cutting corners on small details, but why cant they even trace the outline of a Les Paul successfully?

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they don't because it means you can spot them a mile away, but it seems odd to me that they work on some of the details but can't even be arsed to draw a line around the nearest Epiphone.

Is it just one factory producing these things, and why hasn't anyone found it? Always the same out of proportion headstock, logo in the same incorrect place, same serial number, split diamond always too small, same old stuff.

This isn't some worldwide forgery industry, this is a factory churning out the crappy design of one man. It must be possible to track it down, surely?

Phil_aka_Pip

That body looks like I've tried to draw a LP outline freehand

Maynehead

Aww, you gotta give them some credit for trying to draw Sid from Ice Age on the bottom though...

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/theiceage/images/4/4a/SIdSloth2.jpg

ElectroDan

p90fool said:

That really is terrible. I can understand them cutting corners on small details, but why cant they even trace the outline of a Les Paul successfully?

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they don't because it means you can spot them a mile away, but it seems odd to me that they work on some of the details but can't even be arsed to draw a line around the nearest Epiphone.

Is it just one factory producing these things, and why hasn't anyone found it? Always the same out of proportion headstock, logo in the same incorrect place, same serial number, split diamond always too small, same old stuff.

This isn't some worldwide forgery industry, this is a factory churning out the crappy design of one man. It must be possible to track it down, surely?

Probably be able to track down the factory relatively easily. But I wonder how much Gibson or anyone else could do about it after that.

XWulfhere

There's blueprints all over the internet for guitars, plans commercially available especilly for the 59 Les Paul with a ridiculous degreee of accuracy. It always amazes me when these obvious fakes come up, like they can't even get the body shape right!

guitargeek62

ElectroDan;515935" said:

p90fool said:

That really is terrible. I can understand them cutting corners on small details, but why cant they even trace the outline of a Les Paul successfully?



Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they don't because it means you can spot them a mile away, but it seems odd to me that they work on some of the details but can't even be arsed to draw a line around the nearest Epiphone.



Is it just one factory producing these things, and why hasn't anyone found it? Always the same out of proportion headstock, logo in the same incorrect place, same serial number, split diamond always too small, same old stuff.



This isn't some worldwide forgery industry, this is a factory churning out the crappy design of one man. It must be possible to track it down, surely?





Probably be able to track down the factory relatively easily. But I wonder how much Gibson or anyone else could do about it after that.

There's easily more than one factory, and it really isn't hard to find them. The problem is that counterfeiting doesn't fall under the same protection laws in China, so no action can be taken against them there.