However, someone before me may have swapped a pickup or at least the covers in order for the screws not to match (silver rather than black).īut what pissed me off is the guitar, legitimate as it probably is, was not the same guitar in the guy's photos in the ad. To Daniel, let me clarify that I don't think the SG was a fake, in part due to the help I got on this board. I wonder how many guys on here have bought through Reverb and what the success rate is? I have nothing to compare it to. But you'd hope anyone repeatedly selling fakes would get the boot. No different than eBay, they have thousands of listings on there, so it can't be easy to stay on top of all of them, I admit. Thoughts appreciated.įair point - I didn't mean it as an accusation, but more of a question. When I asked some questions about provenance, the idiot seller threw a hissy-fit, eventually accusing me of trying to cheat him!Īnyway, wondering if I need to stay off this site before I get ripped off, and stick to the crappy-service big box stores where at least you don't have to worry about fakes. I've had one not-so-great experience with Reverb - the guitar (a late-model SG in Pelham Blue) looks great and seems to be authentic, but it didn't match the pictures exactly (different screws on the pickup covers). So are the closed b and o definitely an indicator of a Chibson fake, or could that have been the way it was done in 1991-92? And is Reverb really so lazy about policing their site that they would allow these guys to sell obvious fakes for three grand or more? Otherwise it looks good, minimal wear for an almost 30-year-old guitar, and a nice bit of fading from white to cream. On the back of the headstock, it's got Grover tuners, and I can only read the first few digits of the serial number, which begins "92" (which would seem to indicate a guitar made in 1992, not 1991?). Same with the diamonds on the headstock they look messy and not cut properly where the white inlay meets the black wood. On a 1991 one that looks very tempting, the headstock photo is a close-up (below), but it has a very dodgy-looking Gibson logo.- the "b" and "o" have no gap at all, and where the pearl inlay meets the black wood is not clean at all. Most of the sellers have hundreds of positive reviews, but on a few of them, the photos seem shot in a way to avoid showing the Gibson logo on the headstock. I've been spending way too much time drooling over used Alpine White LP Customs on Reverb.
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