Hi Guys,
I created this thread to create some awareness of the fake guitars that quite commonly be found nowadays. Also to educate those less experience people(including me ) of how to differentiate the originals and the fakes...hopefully our guitar gurus in this forum would love to share their experience and knowledge.....
I'm sharing my experience now....I owned a Gibson Zakk Wylde camo copy....a friend bought it in China during his business trip....when I opened the softcase....I was like "wow"....but....
They put a lot of efforts on the cosmetic and will be able to fool a lot of inexperience people. But, when I checked it carefully, a lot of messy paint job found especially on the neck joint and behind the neck...The neck was made out of a lot of joints...including the headstock and the set in joint was made of 2 different woods as well...1 knock and you'll get a 2 pieces of neck already
Then I moved on...and plug the guitar to my amp....the sound is very dull, and when I on my distortion, very noisy and no note definition.
I brought the guitar to bro Cekikdarah and he helped me to install 2 duncan pups. When he opened the stock pups, we was surprised to see how messy the wiring is and a LOT of excess woods came off from the pups cavity.....
The sad thing is knowing the fact that this guitar is the hottest item that I ever sold off in this forum. only a few minutes after posting my ad, I received 3 sms-es and 2 pms and within an hour of time, one guy came to grab the guitar.
It's a pity that a lot of people still willing to buy and support these fakes...
I created this thread to create some awareness of the fake guitars that quite commonly be found nowadays. Also to educate those less experience people(including me ) of how to differentiate the originals and the fakes...hopefully our guitar gurus in this forum would love to share their experience and knowledge.....
I'm sharing my experience now....I owned a Gibson Zakk Wylde camo copy....a friend bought it in China during his business trip....when I opened the softcase....I was like "wow"....but....
They put a lot of efforts on the cosmetic and will be able to fool a lot of inexperience people. But, when I checked it carefully, a lot of messy paint job found especially on the neck joint and behind the neck...The neck was made out of a lot of joints...including the headstock and the set in joint was made of 2 different woods as well...1 knock and you'll get a 2 pieces of neck already
Then I moved on...and plug the guitar to my amp....the sound is very dull, and when I on my distortion, very noisy and no note definition.
I brought the guitar to bro Cekikdarah and he helped me to install 2 duncan pups. When he opened the stock pups, we was surprised to see how messy the wiring is and a LOT of excess woods came off from the pups cavity.....
The sad thing is knowing the fact that this guitar is the hottest item that I ever sold off in this forum. only a few minutes after posting my ad, I received 3 sms-es and 2 pms and within an hour of time, one guy came to grab the guitar.
It's a pity that a lot of people still willing to buy and support these fakes...