Members monto Posted August 16, 2015 Members Share Posted August 16, 2015 greets all, i have some pics of a gibson sg, but cant get any more pics so dont really have much to go on unfortunately that said though, with the pics i have, are there any telltale signs on this gibson sg being a fake or not? ps. the owner suggests it may be something from the sixties, what should i expect on the back of the headstock (just a serial number?) thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted August 16, 2015 Members Share Posted August 16, 2015 well, that could be a great find if you can you should try to get the serial no (back of the headstock) the headstock looks suspiciously clean and the Gibson logo looks to be not placed right but I'm not an expert could be an early Norlin era Gibson, mid 60s is also possible but it appears to be one of those rare custom order Varitone fitted SGs like the one below (but the one in your pics has the small guard) but allegedly, there exist early to mid 60s standard SGs with small guard that had varitone fitted let's wait what the Gibson experts have to say on this there should be a Gibson expert here shortly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted August 16, 2015 Members Share Posted August 16, 2015 there's also a 2014 custom SG with varitone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jtr654 Posted August 16, 2015 Members Share Posted August 16, 2015 The big Heal is wrong for that era of SG and yes I've seen the varitone on a Sg before. Need more Pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted August 16, 2015 Members Share Posted August 16, 2015 It looks like a Gibson to me even with the frets over the binding (like the Epiphones are). It's not unusual to re-fret a Gibson that way and, from the photos, the frets look to be much newer than the guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members monto Posted August 17, 2015 Author Members Share Posted August 17, 2015 hi guys, thanks very much for the helpful repliesafter speaking to the seller, he has said that the neck/headstock has been replaced and is not original gibson (ie. fake) ...that's as much information i need to know to decide that i'm no longer interested in this 'frankenstein' item, especially as he is asking £325 ($500) for it!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191662203626 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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