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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2008, 03:46:30 PM »
Pinged the Gibson folks - they think that it is fake too...
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2008, 08:46:50 PM »
It just looks wrong, I'm not even sure the body shape is correct. It's not as funny as Mooney rising from the dead to sign a guitar though. £900+ ouch that's going to hurt.
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2008, 09:01:02 PM »
It just looks wrong, I'm not even sure the body shape is correct. It's not as funny as Mooney rising from the dead to sign a guitar though. £900+ ouch that's going to hurt.

Somebody want to write to the buyer and point that out ?
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #18 on: November 24, 2008, 11:26:27 PM »
That one you have Wez is WELL strange!  :?

Looks totally Gibson but that serial number is WRONG surely???

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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #19 on: November 25, 2008, 08:11:39 AM »
its certainly proving hard to pin down, which is weird for a relatively new guitar (going from the 2000 pot codes since the wiring appears proper and the guitar had obviously not seen a tech). 

anyway, it was in a right state when it came to me, covered in star shaped stickers, had a huge superglue run most of the way down the back and some chunks missing from a couple of frets.  thats almost more strange to me, the guitar is not that old and would have cost someone a lot when new, yet its been treated like cr@p

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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2008, 08:21:40 AM »
Definitely an odd one with a story!

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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #21 on: November 25, 2008, 09:27:22 AM »
i decided to ask at the gibson forum, gibson europe were helpfull to a point (the point where they had no clue!!) but i need to know.... these things drive me mad
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #22 on: November 25, 2008, 10:49:34 AM »
Wez - sounds like standard Gibson 'quality control' to me.....

Probably left the factory like that....


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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #23 on: November 25, 2008, 11:16:11 AM »
I wonder when the guitar will apear that has been played and signed by Jezus.
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #24 on: November 25, 2008, 01:22:41 PM »
I wonder when the guitar will apear that has been played and signed by Jezus.

Funny you should say that, want to buy mine?  Only £910
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #25 on: November 25, 2008, 04:49:42 PM »
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2008, 11:42:17 AM »
That 365 or 335 is still going up in price - I've pinged eVil Bay to tell them it is a fake and nothing seems to be happening! Someone is in for an unpleasant surprise...
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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #27 on: November 30, 2008, 12:55:21 PM »
well good news on the one i have here... still no definate age on it but its between 2000-2006 and appears to be #12/200  made especially for the japanese market by Gibson USA (not custom shop).. possibly commisoned by guitar centre who would then export them

no doubts on it being a genuine gibson from quite a few people in the know.

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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #28 on: November 30, 2008, 08:19:00 PM »
although i suppose i should post the otherside of the argument from the Gibson forum

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This just don't smell right. I'm still feeling like this is some type of fake, and maybe you are trying to get some idea of how hard this guitar would be to pass off as real.

Don't take it personal, but that's my take.

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Re: Question for Gibson Lovers Out There
« Reply #29 on: December 01, 2008, 09:42:15 AM »
Some people are just miserable gits.  Tell him not to take it personally, but you think he's ugly.
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