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Well, Well, Well, guess who makes fake LP's

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nickcarter2610|33

The new Guitar World on line mag, posted an article about MAX, the Elite insider that MAKES FAKE Les Pauls for the Big Boy and Girls. These are considered as good or better than REAL les Pauls. The PROBLEM is, He makes rare Vintage 1959 Knock offs. Worth 10's of thousands of Dollars. How is this any different than a Chinese Copy. Slash for one owns one, and condones it. So How can all the purists reconcile the fact that in 20 years, someone may pay 6 figures for a FAKE Les Paul. PLEASE don't say this is different. Sooner or later these fakes are going to make it to the streets. Virtually undetectable from the real ones. They even brag about how collectors pay premium prices for these fakes.

Dan

Check it out here. Check the description at 3:50.

boom762
boom762|12239 MODERATOR

I don't see the point in that. The aged wood of an old guitar is part of why it sounds good.

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1|41029 MODERATOR
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he MADE them, I don't think he's still at it since the custom shop started doing decent reissues... I could be wrong. The '59 copy was a real 70s/80s phenomenon and 1 offs like Max made are very nice guitars. The top of the line Japanese knockoffs by Toai, Greco etc are excellent guitars too. Chinese stuff isn't even in the same league. Also, Gibson wasn't making a proper 59 style les paul during the high quality replica boom of my youth. They started to attempt it in the 80s, but only with limited runs and mixed quality... there are rumors they consulted the Japanese and some of the best American replica luthiers as they went on and eventually the R9 resulted and its been getting refined every year ever since. The current R9 is also a very good guitar, and it oughta be for the money.

But the replicas are fake, yes, but they are legitimately great, vintage guitars from an era when you couldn't get a true reissue from Gibson. The Chinese thing is different.

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