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Originally Posted by ledhedsymbols
I'm no expert, but it smells like a "Chibson" to me. Chinese knockoff I think.
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Ding ding ding! Chicken dinner!
According to the guy at the git store, it's a Gypson. Most likely Chinese, he thinks. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to make it look--and play--right. Has a great neck and a nice sound, but once he walked me through all the differences, it was clear. The Gibson decal is shaped funny, the neck is built up from a couple of pieces, and the body is shaped wrong. I pulled off the back panel and looked at the dash pots, and they were all messily soldered and marked wrong for a Gibson.
I was going to sell it on Craigslist but I wanted to know what it was before I did so. Now I'll give it to my son-in-law, who likes it. I only think in Fender,