Speaking from experience, the first thing you have to do is change the nut. Put on a good set of strings, and don't expect the tuners to last any length of time. However for the money, it is still worth buying if you are only an amateur player. I bought three chibsons and with a bit of work, they are a good value. Don't listen to the Gibson snobs. Not everyone can afford to buy a Gibson.
Jim really? Cause I just got a Chibson (why I’m here) and my tech said the nut isn’t going to effect the sound (maybe my Chibson came with a good nut not sure) …but is that really the first thing that should be done? he said my frets were good and set up well He recommended pickups and tuners …I decided to change electronics also Wondering if I shouldn’t have let him talk me out of changing but now!?
@@pejmanEntertainment also speaking from experience here, yes the nut, it’s literally just a bridge at the other end of the guitar, so a good quality one is essential to stay in tune. I will say though I’m happy I bought a Chibson. My old man and I fixed up and made playable a Ace Frehley three pickup sunburst Chibson. We wanted to learn how to work with fret tools and how to properly set up a guitar so it was the perfect test specimen.
@@pejmanEntertainment fair enough haha, hey sometimes they may come with a great cut one out of the box, I’ve seen people have a fully playable one right of the box. Then again I feel like those are farther and fewer in between, because when we got ours, the fret ends were sharp, uneven, needed a whole new bridge, couldn’t intonate it and a few other problems. If your tech said you don’t need one, you probably don’t. In my case I definitely needed a new one. Thing was cut horribly and slipped all the time even with graphite powder in the slots.
@ReviewOasisa bad cut nut on a guitar causes 99% of tuneing issues, so if they installed a properly cut bone and or graph tec nut on a very inexpensive chibson that's a rarity count yourself lucky.
I recently acquired a "Chibson" Les Paul Junior Double Cut in TV yellow and it has perfect intonation all the way up and down the neck. The stock P90 screams too. I bought it from the original owner and not online.
The only Chibson I have I bought nearly 10 years ago. This was back before people really knew you could ask for different logo's etc. However, I liked the color the photo had which was kind of a vintage burst but on quilted maple, but I asked for the fretboard to be Ebony w/ the "supreme" inlays. Which they did for me, took a little longer to get, but it looked great. It's gone through a few changes over the years but now it has a roller bridge, original tailpiece, cause it's still looks great and is doing its job, a Tusq nut, locking tuners, and EMG 57/66's. It's been one of my most played guitars in my collection and I have 2 actual Les Pauls.. it just looks, feels and sounds amazing.. I'm kinda interested in how they are today
I did some upgrades to this guitar (first was repaint the headstock and remove the logo) and for about the last year it’s been my most played guitar, just feels good when you pick it up. Thanks for watching!
Chibson are still great I don't own any Gibson style guitar but I have one Fender copy stratocaster with a squier tele and mim strat the Chinese one is the most played instrument in my list and other two haven't that much because Chinese strat is so cheap even if it got damaged I can replace the whole thing the Chinese copy strat is been for four years now it's still one of the best instrument I have had. It costed me almost 100 usd and came with roasted maple neck. I Have modified it with Wilkinson bridge pickups and tuners. It's one of best sounding guitar in my collection.
I have something very similiar I got from a friend. Its a cream color quilted top with custom supreme inlays and a wide head stock. Roller tailpiece. Locking tuners. Who ever had it before him did all the changes. Very nice playing/sounding guitar.
I picked up the Slash Chibson 3 years ago. The thing is stunningly beautiful and sounds great. Im a huge Gibson Les Paul fan. Of course i prefer my Standard Gold Top. But i will say the Chibson is pretty sweet. I dont have a problem with the quality. I dont know for sure but, I'd bet these guitars are pirated at an Epiphone factory in China. The bridge says - Im an Epiphone!! I say get one- I'm glad I did.
I own 2 gibson Les paul custom shops, epi matt heafy, epi 1959, and about 10 other esp japan PRS USA Jackson schecter syn custom-s Etc.. i decided to see what all the fuss was about in 2024 with the "cant believe its almost a Gibson", chibson.. i did a deep dive and landed on a seller that i heard was making some of the best.. i ordered a LP Custom Zakk Wylde Bullseye (metallic Silver and Black bullseye, looks like Raiders colors) for $260 Landed on my doorstep.. i am telling you right now that if you find the right seller, you can get a great one.. i talked with the builder and he put mother of pearl inlays on it.. it also came stock w epiphone grover tuners, a bone nut, a Richlite fretboard, a pretty good chrome bridge that reminds me of the SG bridge i had on my old 61 reissue.. the pickups were fake Emg but honestly after some adjustments sounded pretty good, not pristine but they were producing some good gritty passive tones.. before i plugged it in or set it up, i tuned it and played it for 30 seconds and could imstantly feel the same vibrations and resonance that a gibson produces.. its all mahogony , maple cap, with binding.. jumbo stainless frets( not so polished).. it weighed in at a 9.2 lbs, all the measurements were pretty much exactly to scale( the headstock was off a little but not like some of the bad ones ive seen) .. the point is, that i couldnt believe the 30-40 ppl on youtube hyping these up.. but why would they lie, big chibson isnt paying them.. i must have gotten extremely lucky or Gibson is a complete Ripoff... you shouldnt be able to make the guitar i recieved for $265.. if i put 490 pickups in and took the pepsi challenge i wouldnt notice the difference i guarantee it...the chibson i dare say has more sustain than the custom shops... there were a few small cosmetic imperfections but im talking very small glue or a 1 mm paint bleed in a corner type stuff... one thing for sure is the chibson wont last 20 30 or 50 years.. but today it plays and soinds just as good, for $260, Smh i feel like i jist foind out santa isnt real..
In 2017 I got gifted the ''LP Custom'' version, It actually has a one piece Mahogany Body, Mahogany Neck, Ebony Fret Board and about a 3/16 Maple Veneer. I put in an Epi Pro Bucker quick connect Harness and Pickup set and a Graphtec Nut for the hell of it. Crazy as it may sound,... It's been on 5 Official Recordings since then, and gigged quite a few times with zero issues. Headstock Logo covered of course.
If you look you may be able to find actual Chibson headstock logos. I reciently watched a video on a guy in Chigago, whose sister is a graphic artist, who made up the logos, in the gibson script. Check E-Bay.
You can buy whole headstock veneers with MOP crown and logo inlays all in ready to go... of course you have to delaminate the OG headstock and glue and tit around but its possible. @@jimkirby1799
Guitarists are learning what watch collectors learned years ago. The early fakes were intant-tell. Five yeas later they could pass casual inspection by untrained eyes. Five years after that, people start putting genuine parts on them and the differences are minimal. What's scary is that unlike watch movements the most important parts of guitars can be replaced without making the end result prohibitively expensive. Folks are going to have to educate themselves or people will spend thousands on "les pauls" with decent setups, USA pickups, biriges and tuners without knowing they've been ripped off until they try to resell to a knowledgable buyer.
I bought a Chibson a few years ago. I replaced the tuners, and I’ve been thinking about replacing the nut. I got lucky with this one though, it has all the Perl inlays etc. it’s gorgeous.
I think that finish looks really nice for what it’s worth. It’s easy enough to change the bridge parts, pots, even the nut etc. with what you paid for the guitar you could go Gucci on the electronics and still make out with a steal of a deal.
If you want one thats closer to being made playable get a Firefly w/serial # starting with 06. Otherwise with these you have to expect to install a Tusq or bone nut and do a complete fret level minimum. I get both Fireflys and Chibsons to do full upgrades, the finished body is worth the $200 to me to make a particular project based instrument
@@3vmusicstudios I got one in a trade. Put a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and it screams. After a lot of time on the bench it plays as good as anything else and stays in tune about as well (or not) as any other LP. But I've been doing my own work for more years than I care to count. My 2002 Gibson LP Stnd hardly leaves the case for fear of scratch or a nick. The Chibson you can play with ease of mind as it really doesn't matter.
I bought one from Ali express and I absolutely love it of course I had to change the tuners(grover) bridge and put emg active sauderless pkups, l would never try to pass it off as a real lp but I really do love it ;)
The way you need to look at this is with the cost of the guitar and the upgrades you need, bridge, nut, tuners maybe pickups you could buy a decent secondhand Epiphone which you can then sell on if you want. Something you cant really do with a Gibson fake. When you look at it that way it isnt really worth buying a Chibson unless you want a copy of a rare signature guitar, the the blue Ace frehly 3 pickup for example.
You can take a Chibson and add Guitarfetish PAF clones for 50 bucks, a wiring harness for 25 bucks, a bridge with brass saddles for 25, a graph tech nut for 30 and a set of Wilkerson tuners and have a great guitar with the open book headstock that everyone lusts after. I know because I've upgraded many imports, and I play upwards of 70 plus paid shows a year, never for less than our $1,000 minimum. I've always gotten compliments from sound men and fellow guitarists on how they sound. In fact, my latest uploads show me doing a show on a $160 set neck hollow body (ES335 clone), with all stock parts.
@@freepressright If you're going to dump that kind of money into a knock off guitar because of the headstock, you might as well spend a couple hundred more and import an Edwards and save yourself the headache. Your GFS 335 clone is a decent guitar. These aliexpress knock offs are hot garbage.
@trevor4533 the Aliexpress stuff can either be hot garbage or it could be very decent. It's a gamble, from everything I've seen. Some people seem to get ridiculously lucky, while others get total junk.
The problem with cheap guitars is that if the intonation is even slightly off, it might sound okay playing solo but in a mix it will always sound out of tune. You would be better off buying a $200 Epiphone that actually plays in tune.
Half of the intonation is in the nut, a fact many guitarists sleep on. Get a nice bridge and redo the nut with a fret level and crown and you're perfectly in tune.
I bought a chibson custom lp, that guitar was better than i expectet, even the pickups sounds ok. The only things that were really crap were the tuners. Changed them to 50 € Gotohs which working fine and the guitar stays in tune. All the woods of my Chibson and their workmanship are really fine. Update: Meanwhile i swapped the whole hardware to Epiphone - Bridge, stop tail, switch, pots and of course the humbuckers (Probuckers). Now that Chibson sounds like - guess what - an Epiphone Les Paul! All in all costs were around 420 € included shipping & VAT for a nice looking and sounding double binded Custom LP!
Bought one with the so called fret nibs and changed the tuners to kluson and new pickups (Toneriders ac4) and new strings, sounds great. What could the chinese build for 2k like gibson,scary...
I think chibson guitars are great to hang in wall in a restaurant or at home only to look at. i have been playing professionaly for over 35 years and if any other music.people know your gear gets flogged to death and my real fender guitars have been reliable and stood the test of many years on the road. i dont think a chibson.would last that long
My fake lp custom has genuine grovers, high end complete kit of epi electronics, graphite nut and ernie strings, it plays better than any real gibson I've ever seen in a shop for sale
As long it is available, grab one. It will not take long this guitars will either be unavailable or price may increase. Tried to buy my choice but most of them are out of stock. Good I was able to get two which play great. Pickups are decent. Just changed the nut and put 9/46 elixir string.
My concern is....what if international tensions escalate and the USA and China have a military conflict? Stuff from China will become unavailable. If it gets really ugly and China gives the USA a black eye in a military exchange, the USA will do
shit....post interrupted....anyways, the USA will then try to do to China what Israel is doing to Gaza right now, and the entire world will be an ugly place for a while. Chibsons will be a thing from "the good old days". So, get one now while the getting is good.
Search and buy a used studio Gibson les Paul, or a tribute, I my self bought one with a fixed headstock in a very good price. It's worth every penny of it, believe me I 've. Had 2 epi les Paul's, there is no comparison, l also have a Tokai les Paul. Custom, a very nice guitar to play, but.... A Gibson it' s a. Gibson, I personally hear and feel the. Difference, it's a professional tool, to play live on a gig, to. Jam with your friends, or. To record,in a music studio
Replace the bridge posts and thumbwheel with BRASS parts. Find a good tail piece and bridge, brass saddles if ya can find some. Get a nylon nut… get pickups that are wound with good old enamel wire and not that Poly wire dyed bullshit. And that chibson will sound better than most reissues. Gibson holds back the True Tone killer so they can market up their guitars. From 2199 to 20,000.. I love Gibson. I own 3 of them. And that’s the advice that an old timer in Kalamazoo said to do with any Les Paul style guitar no matter the make or brand. Gibson uses stainless steel… which is wrong. Nickel plated brass is correct. They use polymer wire that comes in dyed that brown color for the pickups, but the vintage have just plain old enamel wire, the saddles are completely the wrong dimension and the peak angles are wrong on the saddles.. too sharp of a break and too high of a point when comparing the reissues to the originals. The saddles on a burst in 59 were chunkier and weighed about 8 grams more on average per saddle. …… also the originals had two way wiring in cavity and the reissues have 3 wires…. Also the reissue PAF pickups when examining the alloys of the pole screws you’ll come to find out there is a high concentration of lead in the alloy…. The vintage guitars never had lead in the pole screws. That boils down to whoever manufactures those pole screws but yes… there’s a lot of very small and very cheap changes that need to be addressed to find that true vintage 59 sound. It’s not the wood like they want u to believe or the Hyde glue or long neck tenon. Those are all sales and marketing tactics to turn higher profits.
Anyone buying a Chibson and thinking of it as anything other than a good husk for modding are kidding themselves. How the pickups sound is the least of my worries. Frets, properly drilled hardware and you are good to go.
They're great to learn how to work on the real deal. A proxy, so to speak. Also if the neck twists and the Chibson falls apart, you can always rip your hardware out and throw it in something else. It's a $200 guitar - as long as you can get a year or two out of it, you've gotten your value from it.
Can't afford a Gibson? Then save a few more dollars and buy an Epi LP, at least they are legit and the qaulity isn't bad either! These counterfeits are ripping off the companies that did all the work and built their reputations on their own merits!
Meh, these companies ride on their own coattails nowadays. Their quality control is no better than much cheaper brands and from what I've heard, they're getting more careless as time goes on. If they weren't prohibitively expensive, people wouldn't be resorting to this as much.
By the time you buy it and do the work to get it playable it's going to cost you the same as buying a used, or even new, Epiphone standard and you'll be lucky if it's as good as the Epiphone. You can also get a legit Chinese made and branded single cut that is going to be better out of the box. Better still, just get a good used Gibson LP studio if you need to have the name on the headstock. Saw the nicest looking studio I've ever seen in a shop a couple months ago for 750. Do that and you'll have a better quality guitar and not be supporting illegal manufacturing that is not only breaking copyright laws but often doing environmental damage by not following laws/norms with materials, pollution control and waste disposal. On top of that, you'll be breaking the law yourself if you ever go to sell a Chibson.
Not even close. I have several and even my luthier says they are beautiful and extremely well made. This one looks like a piece of junk. I've got a few dealers I go through. Excellent work.
Spent $200 bucks on set up and wiring... pickups were fine. I've put them up against gibbies friends have and they are amazed when I tell them it is not real
@@juliangomez1801 Yeah, I'll take "things that never happened for $500" Alex. No one with any Gibsons would be impressed by the shitboxes that you're stupidly dumping money in...
Its so funny....Gibson LP standard at $4,000 vs Chibson knock off that we take and swap out everything and setup correctly that looks good, sounds good, plays great for $800-900???? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! Haters gonna hate, but oh well.
well, that's practically their entire marketing. They depend on idiotic social media YTube reviews, because they can't legally engage in other forms of advertisement. Chibson isn't a brand. It's a collective name for any counterfeit Gibson made in the far east that brands its crap as authentic guitars made by Gibson. Shoddy manufacturing of cheap materials with no quality control. Oftentimes you can expect a guitar with poor alignment, twisted necks, gritty or even broken electronics, poor finish quality, and more.... that is if you actually get it before it's confiscated by customs
@@alphayungwes5595 no, not bitter. In the end i don't really care what strangers do with their money. I'm more amused by how some people use misinformation to play with the ignorance of others. When something makes no sense, it sometimes needs to be called out for what it is.
Comes from the feel and it comes from the heart Gibson guitars are a rock legend in a studio standard what'd you lay down and feeling you will get back
Yeah man, ain't that the troof? They most certainly would give a very good share of Gibsons, a run for the money. Not to mention in all likelihood, not being a fake!
Honestly chibsons doesn’t really hurt Gibson … people end up buying original Gibson parts for them. And Gibson end up making money …off people who can’t even afford their guitars .
Soo, still junk you have to replace everything, level, and setup and spend more than you paid for it and by that time, you could have gotten a better guitar off the shelf?!??
CHIBSON brand name guitar is fake, fictional name for copies of original brand name guitars. CHIBSON is not a real brand name. I'm so sick of the internet name CHIBSON. CHIBSON doesn't exist period and never existed.
They're not limited to using "sustainable" wood they can use GOOD guitar wood, and they're pushing "print" on the Epiphone Les Paul CNC file. They're for all intents and purposes identical.
@@jameshughes6049 Trying to boil down: Yeah ships with crap hardware, but that's to be expected, the CNC parts are going to be carbon-copies. That's just what CNC's do. They even stopped trying to make cheap veneered versions when Gibson shipped them the ability to just print out another epiphone. I own a Chibson and a real Gibson Les Paul. The differences are in the hardware mainly which conveniently swap out. The necks are perfectly fine. There are some advantages to chibsons beyond price, for example they're poly coated rather than that abysmal nitro coat Gibson uses on Gibsons, not sure what they use on Epis.
@@snap-off5383 It's more than just hardware. I know people who bought a Chibson & they were plywood with a veneer on top. They DO NOT use quality wood. The electronics are a joke. It's like a children's toy.
@@jameshughes6049 Then you know someone who bought one from eons ago. Now they're full tops. They have no wood restrictions and can use better wood than Gibson themselves. Everyone who buys one for anything other than wall art does so expecting to replace everything but the wood and frets. Nobody expects the hardware to perform. CNCs don't care their longitude or lattitude, they just spit out the exact same piece by the thousands. YT videos abound where the "know it all" says "and now we'll pull the pickup and I'll show you its just a veneer. . . Oh! wow! that's a full maple top! "They just keep making MORE and selling them out the back door.
imagine how cheap a 260$ guitar is, as far as build quality & materials, when their entire sales depend on how well they can rip off the cosmetic look, logos, and markings of an actual LP, and still make a profit. It's a toy for day dreamers, not a guitar for musicians.
Your opinion is somewhat valid. But it doesn't change the fact that most of the chibsons are made from real mahogany and maple. Now other than the flames or grain pattern. I don't know that I've ever came across a broom stick made out of pine that was sooo much better than that other broom stick made out of pine. I know ther are many other factors to Evaluate there. But I've played for over 40 years. I've had 5000 dollar guitars and I own 200 dollar guitars. My Evaluation is with cnc machines more readily available it's much easier now to make a great sounding and playing instrument without having to get a loan on your home that's just the fact. There's know way in HELL you can hear a song or guitar blindfolded anymore and tell if it's 2000 dollars or 200 dollars you just can't. And if you think you can you are just being ridiculous and scared to be proven wrong.
Speaking from experience, the first thing you have to do is change the nut. Put on a good set of strings, and don't expect the tuners to last any length of time. However for the money, it is still worth buying if you are only an amateur player. I bought three chibsons and with a bit of work, they are a good value. Don't listen to the Gibson snobs. Not everyone can afford to buy a Gibson.
Jim really?
Cause I just got a Chibson (why I’m here) and my tech said the nut isn’t going to effect the sound (maybe my Chibson came with a good nut not sure) …but is that really the first thing that should be done?
he said my frets were good and set up well
He recommended pickups and tuners …I decided to change electronics also
Wondering if I shouldn’t have let him talk me out of changing but now!?
@@pejmanEntertainment also speaking from experience here, yes the nut, it’s literally just a bridge at the other end of the guitar, so a good quality one is essential to stay in tune. I will say though I’m happy I bought a Chibson. My old man and I fixed up and made playable a Ace Frehley three pickup sunburst Chibson. We wanted to learn how to work with fret tools and how to properly set up a guitar so it was the perfect test specimen.
@@gameroftheyear1000 very cool… I don’t know my tech looked at it and said no nut change needed…
@@pejmanEntertainment fair enough haha, hey sometimes they may come with a great cut one out of the box, I’ve seen people have a fully playable one right of the box. Then again I feel like those are farther and fewer in between, because when we got ours, the fret ends were sharp, uneven, needed a whole new bridge, couldn’t intonate it and a few other problems. If your tech said you don’t need one, you probably don’t. In my case I definitely needed a new one. Thing was cut horribly and slipped all the time even with graphite powder in the slots.
@ReviewOasisa bad cut nut on a guitar causes 99% of tuneing issues, so if they installed a properly cut bone and or graph tec nut on a very inexpensive chibson that's a rarity count yourself lucky.
I recently acquired a "Chibson" Les Paul Junior Double Cut in TV yellow and it has perfect intonation all the way up and down the neck. The stock P90 screams too. I bought it from the original owner and not online.
The only Chibson I have I bought nearly 10 years ago. This was back before people really knew you could ask for different logo's etc. However, I liked the color the photo had which was kind of a vintage burst but on quilted maple, but I asked for the fretboard to be Ebony w/ the "supreme" inlays. Which they did for me, took a little longer to get, but it looked great. It's gone through a few changes over the years but now it has a roller bridge, original tailpiece, cause it's still looks great and is doing its job, a Tusq nut, locking tuners, and EMG 57/66's. It's been one of my most played guitars in my collection and I have 2 actual Les Pauls.. it just looks, feels and sounds amazing.. I'm kinda interested in how they are today
I did some upgrades to this guitar (first was repaint the headstock and remove the logo) and for about the last year it’s been my most played guitar, just feels good when you pick it up. Thanks for watching!
Chibson are still great I don't own any Gibson style guitar but I have one Fender copy stratocaster with a squier tele and mim strat the Chinese one is the most played instrument in my list and other two haven't that much because Chinese strat is so cheap even if it got damaged I can replace the whole thing the Chinese copy strat is been for four years now it's still one of the best instrument I have had. It costed me almost 100 usd and came with roasted maple neck. I Have modified it with Wilkinson bridge pickups and tuners. It's one of best sounding guitar in my collection.
I have something very similiar I got from a friend. Its a cream color quilted top with custom supreme inlays and a wide head stock. Roller tailpiece. Locking tuners. Who ever had it before him did all the changes. Very nice playing/sounding guitar.
I picked up the Slash Chibson 3 years ago. The thing is stunningly beautiful and sounds great. Im a huge Gibson Les Paul fan. Of course i prefer my Standard Gold Top. But i will say the Chibson is pretty sweet. I dont have a problem with the quality. I dont know for sure but, I'd bet these guitars are pirated at an Epiphone factory in China. The bridge says - Im an Epiphone!!
I say get one- I'm glad I did.
I own 2 gibson Les paul custom shops, epi matt heafy, epi 1959, and about 10 other esp japan PRS USA Jackson schecter syn custom-s Etc.. i decided to see what all the fuss was about in 2024 with the "cant believe its almost a Gibson", chibson.. i did a deep dive and landed on a seller that i heard was making some of the best.. i ordered a LP Custom Zakk Wylde Bullseye (metallic Silver and Black bullseye, looks like Raiders colors) for $260 Landed on my doorstep.. i am telling you right now that if you find the right seller, you can get a great one.. i talked with the builder and he put mother of pearl inlays on it.. it also came stock w epiphone grover tuners, a bone nut, a Richlite fretboard, a pretty good chrome bridge that reminds me of the SG bridge i had on my old 61 reissue.. the pickups were fake Emg but honestly after some adjustments sounded pretty good, not pristine but they were producing some good gritty passive tones.. before i plugged it in or set it up, i tuned it and played it for 30 seconds and could imstantly feel the same vibrations and resonance that a gibson produces.. its all mahogony , maple cap, with binding.. jumbo stainless frets( not so polished).. it weighed in at a 9.2 lbs, all the measurements were pretty much exactly to scale( the headstock was off a little but not like some of the bad ones ive seen) .. the point is, that i couldnt believe the 30-40 ppl on youtube hyping these up.. but why would they lie, big chibson isnt paying them.. i must have gotten extremely lucky or Gibson is a complete Ripoff... you shouldnt be able to make the guitar i recieved for $265.. if i put 490 pickups in and took the pepsi challenge i wouldnt notice the difference i guarantee it...the chibson i dare say has more sustain than the custom shops... there were a few small cosmetic imperfections but im talking very small glue or a 1 mm paint bleed in a corner type stuff... one thing for sure is the chibson wont last 20 30 or 50 years.. but today it plays and soinds just as good, for $260, Smh i feel like i jist foind out santa isnt real..
Thank you for an honest review. Mine works great for the $$. Not many just average players don’t have thousands of $$ to spend on just tinkering.
Thanks for watching👍🏻
like me going to a fake doctor cos i can't afford a real one.
In 2017 I got gifted the ''LP Custom'' version, It actually has a one piece Mahogany Body, Mahogany Neck, Ebony Fret Board and about a 3/16 Maple Veneer. I put in an Epi Pro Bucker quick connect Harness and Pickup set and a Graphtec Nut for the hell of it. Crazy as it may sound,... It's been on 5 Official Recordings since then, and gigged quite a few times with zero issues. Headstock Logo covered of course.
I agree I ended up sanding the Gibson logo off and painting it black on mine
If you look you may be able to find actual Chibson headstock logos. I reciently watched a video on a guy in Chigago, whose sister is a graphic artist, who made up the logos, in the gibson script. Check E-Bay.
You can buy whole headstock veneers with MOP crown and logo inlays all in ready to go... of course you have to delaminate the OG headstock and glue and tit around but its possible. @@jimkirby1799
where did you order it from?
Guitarists are learning what watch collectors learned years ago. The early fakes were intant-tell. Five yeas later they could pass casual inspection by untrained eyes. Five years after that, people start putting genuine parts on them and the differences are minimal. What's scary is that unlike watch movements the most important parts of guitars can be replaced without making the end result prohibitively expensive. Folks are going to have to educate themselves or people will spend thousands on "les pauls" with decent setups, USA pickups, biriges and tuners without knowing they've been ripped off until they try to resell to a knowledgable buyer.
I bought a Chibson a few years ago. I replaced the tuners, and I’ve been thinking about replacing the nut. I got lucky with this one though, it has all the Perl inlays etc. it’s gorgeous.
Funny, just about everyone gets lucky. Show me a bad review of a Chibson that hasn't been done by a snob.
I think that finish looks really nice for what it’s worth. It’s easy enough to change the bridge parts, pots, even the nut etc. with what you paid for the guitar you could go Gucci on the electronics and still make out with a steal of a deal.
What’s the song in 2:16 ?
Make it what you want! Replace everything with top quality parts and you have a great workhorse axe!
What's the actual weight of the guitar? Thanks for the review, planning to get one myself
If you want one thats closer to being made playable get a Firefly w/serial # starting with 06.
Otherwise with these you have to expect to install a Tusq or bone nut and do a complete fret level minimum. I get both Fireflys and Chibsons to do full upgrades, the finished body is worth the $200 to me to make a particular project based instrument
The Harbor Freight version of a Les Paul!
Very true!
@@3vmusicstudios I got one in a trade. Put a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and it screams. After a lot of time on the bench it plays as good as anything else and stays in tune about as well (or not) as any other LP. But I've been doing my own work for more years than I care to count. My 2002 Gibson LP Stnd hardly leaves the case for fear of scratch or a nick. The Chibson you can play with ease of mind as it really doesn't matter.
I bought one from Ali express and I absolutely love it of course I had to change the tuners(grover) bridge and put emg active sauderless pkups, l would never try to pass it off as a real lp but I really do love it ;)
Me too, I took the logo off the headstock and swapped most of the hardware. Really nice guitar and a fun little project. Thanks for watching
The way you need to look at this is with the cost of the guitar and the upgrades you need, bridge, nut, tuners maybe pickups you could buy a decent secondhand Epiphone which you can then sell on if you want. Something you cant really do with a Gibson fake. When you look at it that way it isnt really worth buying a Chibson unless you want a copy of a rare signature guitar, the the blue Ace frehly 3 pickup for example.
You can take a Chibson and add Guitarfetish PAF clones for 50 bucks, a wiring harness for 25 bucks, a bridge with brass saddles for 25, a graph tech nut for 30 and a set of Wilkerson tuners and have a great guitar with the open book headstock that everyone lusts after.
I know because I've upgraded many imports, and I play upwards of 70 plus paid shows a year, never for less than our $1,000 minimum.
I've always gotten compliments from sound men and fellow guitarists on how they sound. In fact, my latest uploads show me doing a show on a $160 set neck hollow body (ES335 clone), with all stock parts.
@@freepressright If you're going to dump that kind of money into a knock off guitar because of the headstock, you might as well spend a couple hundred more and import an Edwards and save yourself the headache.
Your GFS 335 clone is a decent guitar. These aliexpress knock offs are hot garbage.
@trevor4533 the Aliexpress stuff can either be hot garbage or it could be very decent. It's a gamble, from everything I've seen. Some people seem to get ridiculously lucky, while others get total junk.
@@trevor4533what's an Edwards?
The problem with cheap guitars is that if the intonation is even slightly off, it might sound okay playing solo but in a mix it will always sound out of tune. You would be better off buying a $200 Epiphone that actually plays in tune.
Half of the intonation is in the nut, a fact many guitarists sleep on. Get a nice bridge and redo the nut with a fret level and crown and you're perfectly in tune.
@@greenman717 Yah. A bit of crying wolf here. I have 2 chibsons and with a bit of work, they are live workhorses. Go get one :)
I have one, and the intonation out the box was spot on.
Can you please share the link for the seller? I'm trying to find a reliable one to hopefully make me a silverburst.
Where do you take a guitar like that to get it playable? Maybe upgrade components? Will guitar shops work on knock offs?
I bought a chibson custom lp, that guitar was better than i expectet, even the pickups sounds ok. The only things that were really crap were the tuners. Changed them to 50 € Gotohs which working fine and the guitar stays in tune.
All the woods of my Chibson and their workmanship are really fine.
Update:
Meanwhile i swapped the whole hardware to Epiphone - Bridge, stop tail, switch, pots and of course the humbuckers (Probuckers). Now that Chibson sounds like - guess what - an Epiphone Les Paul!
All in all costs were around 420 € included shipping & VAT for a nice looking and sounding double binded Custom LP!
Do you remember the link/website you bought this from?
Bought one with the so called fret nibs and changed the tuners to kluson and new pickups (Toneriders ac4) and new strings, sounds great.
What could the chinese build for 2k like gibson,scary...
For 2k they build 10 custom les pauls 😁
nice guitar even it is a chibson,.
i dream to have that in my life,.
how i wish someone give me that kind of guitar ❤
How much does the guitar weigh?
I think chibson guitars are great to hang in wall in a restaurant or at home only to look at. i have been playing professionaly for over 35 years and if any other music.people know your gear gets flogged to death and my real fender guitars have been reliable and stood the test of many years on the road. i dont think a chibson.would last that long
What store did you order from on Aliexpress if you don’t mind me asking! Thanks!
Which Chinese store did you use? I see there are a few of them with different ratings on AliExpress
My fake lp custom has genuine grovers, high end complete kit of epi electronics, graphite nut and ernie strings, it plays better than any real gibson I've ever seen in a shop for sale
Where did you buy it? 😮
I do a full setup fret level recrown and polish new pickups
As long it is available, grab one. It will not take long this guitars will either be unavailable or price may increase. Tried to buy my choice but most of them are out of stock. Good I was able to get two which play great. Pickups are decent. Just changed the nut and put 9/46 elixir string.
My concern is....what if international tensions escalate and the USA and China have a military conflict? Stuff from China will become unavailable. If it gets really ugly and China gives the USA a black eye in a military exchange, the USA will do
shit....post interrupted....anyways, the USA will then try to do to China what Israel is doing to Gaza right now, and the entire world will be an ugly place for a while. Chibsons will be a thing from "the good old days". So, get one now while the getting is good.
what kind of finish? Poly? Nitro?
Search and buy a used studio Gibson les Paul, or a tribute, I my self bought one with a fixed headstock in a very good price. It's worth every penny of it, believe me I 've. Had 2 epi les Paul's, there is no comparison, l also have a Tokai les Paul. Custom, a very nice guitar to play, but.... A Gibson it' s a. Gibson, I personally hear and feel the. Difference, it's a professional tool, to play live on a gig, to. Jam with your friends, or. To record,in a music studio
Longer headstock will that not improve the tuning stability? And be so much better with a string butler?
Where did you order this from?
I ordered this one from AliExpress
Is this from Allie express
Did the customs hold it and make you pay taxes. I ordered a neck and it never came in, but I got my money back.
No not on this one, it took about 10 days to ship and arrive
Nice ❤🎸 i love chibson ❤🎸 that's the closest im ever gonna get close to a real GIBSON 🎸😔 . Any way im great full for what I have ❤🎸 from new Zealand 🌏
"Longo the barbarian" headstock👍
Replace the bridge posts and thumbwheel with BRASS parts. Find a good tail piece and bridge, brass saddles if ya can find some. Get a nylon nut… get pickups that are wound with good old enamel wire and not that Poly wire dyed bullshit. And that chibson will sound better than most reissues. Gibson holds back the True Tone killer so they can market up their guitars. From 2199 to 20,000..
I love Gibson. I own 3 of them. And that’s the advice that an old timer in Kalamazoo said to do with any Les Paul style guitar no matter the make or brand. Gibson uses stainless steel… which is wrong. Nickel plated brass is correct. They use polymer wire that comes in dyed that brown color for the pickups, but the vintage have just plain old enamel wire, the saddles are completely the wrong dimension and the peak angles are wrong on the saddles.. too sharp of a break and too high of a point when comparing the reissues to the originals. The saddles on a burst in 59 were chunkier and weighed about 8 grams more on average per saddle. …… also the originals had two way wiring in cavity and the reissues have 3 wires…. Also the reissue PAF pickups when examining the alloys of the pole screws you’ll come to find out there is a high concentration of lead in the alloy…. The vintage guitars never had lead in the pole screws. That boils down to whoever manufactures those pole screws but yes… there’s a lot of very small and very cheap changes that need to be addressed to find that true vintage 59 sound. It’s not the wood like they want u to believe or the Hyde glue or long neck tenon. Those are all sales and marketing tactics to turn higher profits.
Anyone buying a Chibson and thinking of it as anything other than a good husk for modding are kidding themselves. How the pickups sound is the least of my worries. Frets, properly drilled hardware and you are good to go.
They're great to learn how to work on the real deal. A proxy, so to speak.
Also if the neck twists and the Chibson falls apart, you can always rip your hardware out and throw it in something else. It's a $200 guitar - as long as you can get a year or two out of it, you've gotten your value from it.
Can't afford a Gibson? Then save a few more dollars and buy an Epi LP, at least they are legit and the qaulity isn't bad either! These counterfeits are ripping off the companies that did all the work and built their reputations on their own merits!
Meh, these companies ride on their own coattails nowadays. Their quality control is no better than much cheaper brands and from what I've heard, they're getting more careless as time goes on. If they weren't prohibitively expensive, people wouldn't be resorting to this as much.
By the time you buy it and do the work to get it playable it's going to cost you the same as buying a used, or even new, Epiphone standard and you'll be lucky if it's as good as the Epiphone. You can also get a legit Chinese made and branded single cut that is going to be better out of the box. Better still, just get a good used Gibson LP studio if you need to have the name on the headstock. Saw the nicest looking studio I've ever seen in a shop a couple months ago for 750. Do that and you'll have a better quality guitar and not be supporting illegal manufacturing that is not only breaking copyright laws but often doing environmental damage by not following laws/norms with materials, pollution control and waste disposal. On top of that, you'll be breaking the law yourself if you ever go to sell a Chibson.
Not even close. I have several and even my luthier says they are beautiful and extremely well made. This one looks like a piece of junk. I've got a few dealers I go through. Excellent work.
Spent $200 bucks on set up and wiring... pickups were fine. I've put them up against gibbies friends have and they are amazed when I tell them it is not real
@@juliangomez1801 Yeah, I'll take "things that never happened for $500" Alex.
No one with any Gibsons would be impressed by the shitboxes that you're stupidly dumping money in...
Its so funny....Gibson LP standard at $4,000 vs Chibson knock off that we take and swap out everything and setup correctly that looks good, sounds good, plays great for $800-900???? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! Haters gonna hate, but oh well.
STILL, with the green tuners! Not quite a Gibson, but better than an Epiphone? I mean, not quite a Chibson, but better than a Gibson?!! 😮
Too bad they didn't ship it out with a tuner. 😬
they do if you order it.
The guitar is by far much better than the guitarist.
Do you want to buy a guitarist? 😅
I think for 260 bucks ok. Tune the guitar.
I genuinely don’t understand any type of promotion or review on something that is literally fake in every way. Why not just buy an Epiphone?
$300 difference.
well, that's practically their entire marketing. They depend on idiotic social media YTube reviews, because they can't legally engage in other forms of advertisement. Chibson isn't a brand. It's a collective name for any counterfeit Gibson made in the far east that brands its crap as authentic guitars made by Gibson. Shoddy manufacturing of cheap materials with no quality control. Oftentimes you can expect a guitar with poor alignment, twisted necks, gritty or even broken electronics, poor finish quality, and more.... that is if you actually get it before it's confiscated by customs
@@rodnyg7952 wow you're bitter
@@alphayungwes5595 no, not bitter. In the end i don't really care what strangers do with their money. I'm more amused by how some people use misinformation to play with the ignorance of others. When something makes no sense, it sometimes needs to be called out for what it is.
I’m not trying to promote it, I have a real Les paul and was curious how this would compare.
You know what so what you make of it
Comes from the feel and it comes from the heart Gibson guitars are a rock legend in a studio standard what'd you lay down and feeling you will get back
The first thing you have to do is set it afire on UA-cam and then buy a used Epiphone.
Looks pretty good, actually. I’ve seen way worse!
Even from a distance, it looks like an Epiphone with an open book headstock. . . . . . . . . Oh wait, those are called Epiphone Japan. Ha!
An MIJ Epiphone would smoke the living shit out of a Chibson.
Hell, probably give a good share of Gibsons a run for the money too.
Yeah man, ain't that the troof? They most certainly would give a very good share of Gibsons, a run for the money. Not to mention in all likelihood, not being a fake!
The man that $260 guitar.Of does you just find no need for a twenty nine hundred dollars Gibson for tgat
Honestly chibsons doesn’t really hurt Gibson … people end up buying original Gibson parts for them. And Gibson end up making money …off people who can’t even afford their guitars .
Today china is the owner of tecnology, those chibson beated gibson.
You need a gibson ? NO
CHIBSON IS 7/8 rate with good adjustament is epic!
This guitar is over $4000 at the music store in my city I guess buying one of these chinese knock offs doesn't sound so bad after all.
...So buy an affordable guitar made by a different brand. You're throwing money away buying one of these fake piles of trash.
reporting to Gibson Legal and UA-cam for promotion of Trademark infringement.
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He is a great professional guitar player 👏 😂 but he paid too much
poor people with gibson"s fetish is one of the worst gender
What's that make, 65 genders now, 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Soo, still junk you have to replace everything, level, and setup and spend more than you paid for it and by that time, you could have gotten a better guitar off the shelf?!??
CHIBSON brand name guitar is fake, fictional name for copies of original brand name guitars. CHIBSON is not a real brand name. I'm so sick of the internet name CHIBSON. CHIBSON doesn't exist period and never existed.
I actually saw a "Chibson" decal/logo in the Gibson script/font. I'd love to put that on my Chibson. Hilarious.
Garbage. You can take a ford focus & put Ferrari badges on it & paint it red but it's still a ford focus.
They're not limited to using "sustainable" wood they can use GOOD guitar wood, and they're pushing "print" on the Epiphone Les Paul CNC file. They're for all intents and purposes identical.
@@snap-off5383 Oh no no no. I own 4 Epiphone Les Pauls & they are FAR superior to this Chibson junk.
@@jameshughes6049 Trying to boil down: Yeah ships with crap hardware, but that's to be expected, the CNC parts are going to be carbon-copies. That's just what CNC's do. They even stopped trying to make cheap veneered versions when Gibson shipped them the ability to just print out another epiphone. I own a Chibson and a real Gibson Les Paul. The differences are in the hardware mainly which conveniently swap out. The necks are perfectly fine. There are some advantages to chibsons beyond price, for example they're poly coated rather than that abysmal nitro coat Gibson uses on Gibsons, not sure what they use on Epis.
@@snap-off5383 It's more than just hardware. I know people who bought a Chibson & they were plywood with a veneer on top. They DO NOT use quality wood. The electronics are a joke. It's like a children's toy.
@@jameshughes6049 Then you know someone who bought one from eons ago. Now they're full tops. They have no wood restrictions and can use better wood than Gibson themselves. Everyone who buys one for anything other than wall art does so expecting to replace everything but the wood and frets. Nobody expects the hardware to perform. CNCs don't care their longitude or lattitude, they just spit out the exact same piece by the thousands. YT videos abound where the "know it all" says "and now we'll pull the pickup and I'll show you its just a veneer. . . Oh! wow! that's a full maple top! "They just keep making MORE and selling them out the back door.
imagine how cheap a 260$ guitar is, as far as build quality & materials, when their entire sales depend on how well they can rip off the cosmetic look, logos, and markings of an actual LP, and still make a profit. It's a toy for day dreamers, not a guitar for musicians.
Imagine how overpriced is a Gibson in 10x that price 😅
@@Superman-pn1rx ...a toy for day dreamers, not a guitar for musicians
Snob!
@@ligfifty your bitterness won't change the fact that It's a piece of cheap junk. Get as many as you like. Makes no difference to me
Your opinion is somewhat valid. But it doesn't change the fact that most of the chibsons are made from real mahogany and maple. Now other than the flames or grain pattern. I don't know that I've ever came across a broom stick made out of pine that was sooo much better than that other broom stick made out of pine. I know ther are many other factors to Evaluate there. But I've played for over 40 years. I've had 5000 dollar guitars and I own 200 dollar guitars. My Evaluation is with cnc machines more readily available it's much easier now to make a great sounding and playing instrument without having to get a loan on your home that's just the fact. There's know way in HELL you can hear a song or guitar blindfolded anymore and tell if it's 2000 dollars or 200 dollars you just can't. And if you think you can you are just being ridiculous and scared to be proven wrong.
impossible to know what sort of quiality with such poor playing and without even tunning up properly.
Wumao
Garbage, done that, been there…no ever again
Seller
Looks so bad…sorry. Fail