The Secret Of Info About How To Spot Fake Epiphone Guitars
By chimi, june 13, 2014 in electric guitars.
How to spot fake epiphone guitars. Brand logo compare this to photos of. An easy first spot is the truss rod cover. Some tips and tricks to spot a fake (reuploaded)
Take a guitar that should barely sell for $100. The place i would look for obvious fakes is in the inlays and logo. The two companies most targeted for forgeries are gibson and fender.
It is of maximum importance that we all have the appropriate knowledge available to be able. The seller is in china or hong kong. Most epis made up until 2 or 3 years ago had.
Treat any seller from asia with caution. A genuine gibson les paul will only ever have 2 screws in the truss rod cover, and they should be vertically aligned, one at the top, one. On the fake it is almost directly below the middle, and on the real it is more to the right.
You have heard of a fake gibson, but what about a fake epiphone? Epiphone's factories have precision cutters and routers to do the inlays, they should be precise without. I doubt it is fake it's not worth faking an epi they fake guitar that cost 1000s and sell them for the price you would pay for an epi.
You can get an epi for 200 bucks, i don't see the difference between that and buying a real one for the same price, besides, there is a very small market for epiphone guitars.