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"The largest seizure of fake musical instruments in history." U.S. Customs seize $18 million worth of fake guitars with the help of Gibson.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/us-customs-siezes-3000-fake-gibson-guitars

Wild stuff
Wonder if anybody we know owns fake guitars.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Fake Chinese Gibsons, as opposed to Chinese made Epiphones (That's Gibson) of about the same quality. The line is getting a bit blurry there. And Chinese build quality has bettered itself over the last few years.
I have a few Chinese-made-and-that's-a-no-no guitars.
Simply put, if the guitar makes it through the evaluation of a decent body build, then all the "junk" the Chinese use to keep the price low like pickups, hardware and electronics can be replaced with quality parts.
And Wallah! - you have a decent axe that looks, plays (often better than the "real deal") and sounds great. And that's all at about 10%-15% of its "real" counterpart's price.

I've done this several times already with a different Chinese-made "fake" copy of another manufacturer. I don't see the 80%-90% value difference in the higher priced original after I've done my upgrade magic on the thing.

There may be storm clouds in trade with China soon.
So -
Get yours while you can.

J Mo'

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