I refuse to work on the fakes. Copying a body style is fine by me but when they outright steal and counterfeit another company's logo and intellectual property, that makes them thieves. I've also had the misfortune on 2 separate occasions of informing dudes that their beloved "Gibson" was a fake. One of them a VERY good fake, but a fake nonetheless.
It's easy enough to add fret markers in the binding. I have done it buy drilling a shallow hole and using black fingernail polish dab it in the hole with a toothpick until the whole is filled a little higher than the binding let it cure level it with a razor and polish it and it will look original.
I have a Chibson with fret nibs, they’ve come along way, scary. I even have a Gibson type bridge and 59 ink stamp serial number. The only way thing they haven’t done yet is the hex head truss rod end. Plus it plays as good as my real 2019 LP Standard.
Not too fussed with the lack of markers (some ESP custom shops have that as well as a "feature" because some artists don't like markers - to each their own), but man, seeing a fake version of that bridge/trem system on a chibson just compounds the trouble. I wonder if it can even hold tuning and intonate properly. I've seen ones where they f-up the positioning of the bridge too.
@@ahf5471Worng! In the U.S., it is illegal to traffic counterfeit goods under federal law protecting trademarks. Trafficking includes the production, transport, and sale of counterfeit goods. First time convictions carry steep criminal penalties! The maximum penalty for a first-time offense is 10 years in prison and a $2 million fine. For a second-time offense, the penalty is 20 years and a $5 million fine. In addition, if a corporation traffics in counterfeit goods, it can be subject to a fine of $15 million. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/pdf/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap113-sec2320.pdf So go right on ahead and try it buster, when you do though and you get caught don’t say you were never warned!
@@ahf5471Worng! In the U.S., it is illegal to traffic counterfeit goods under federal law protecting trademarks. Trafficking includes the production, transport, and sale of counterfeit goods. First time convictions carry steep criminal penalties! The maximum penalty for a first-time offense is 10 years in prison and a $2 million fine. For a second-time offense, the penalty is 20 years and a $5 million fine. In addition, if a corporation traffics in counterfeit goods, it can be subject to a fine of $15 million. By selling this as “Gipson” you not only violating a copyright which Gipson could sue you for you’re also willingly selling counterfeit goods! This is a serious federal crime you fool!
@@ahf5471 , Counterfeit laws are very clear on this. Counterfeit items are legal to own but under no circumstances are they allowed to be resold or even gifted to another individual(this is considered trafficking). Disclosure plays no significance, resale is illegal!
I set a Chibson LP up last year - it was OK - played well after the set up, looked like a LP and sounded fine. Worked on some awful Gibsons, esp SGs, that wont intonate or stay in tune
The thing w chibson guitars they don't have the same laws as we do here in the states so they can bang out the knock offs and some fool will buy it thinking it's a good guitar,that's the first time you swore but it's the truth dane lol
Get yourself some sanding sponges,works wonders on frets and rolls the fretboard edges at the same time, you can get them in different gauges of abrasion, also why do you replace a plastic nut,with another plastic nut, would of been a perfect time to add a bone nut.some one made a mistake on the fret makers in the factory,these vibrolas always need locking tuners.
i only ask,why there's a lot of fake china gibsons all the time?is gibson doing something about it?they even dared to sell fake beatles cd box sets,how come they never stop making fake stuff???
Gibson did it themselves by moving to China. But hey, they’re charging more and making more money. China has zero respect for copyright and intellectual property law.
With the ridiculous price of Gibsons, I’m not mad chibsons exist, Gibson deserves to get ripped off, just like they do their customers, I own a 1995 explorer, great guitar, but I own guitars 1/4 the price that are simply better with better specs
Conventional interpretation of the law regarding counterfeit guitars suggests that it is not illegal to buy them, but it is illegal to sell them. Once you get your counterfeit from China, it is yours and you're stuck with it. Dane - The 3 you did for me I can never sell with the logos on them. They are great playing guitars and as you stated in the video "paint job is pretty cool". They are worth the money even if I take them a part, sand down the logo and call them Partscasters. I would not sell the guitar even as a copy/counterfit. I would sell a gigbag that the guitar happened to fall into.
I'm a retired pro musician... We toured for years and I learned early on that it wasn't worth carrying my expensive archtops and jumbo acoustics on the road... Within about the first six years on the road, I or a few guys in the band had lost quite a few instruments to theft. I discovered the wonders of Chinee Guitar about twenty years ago... And didn't look back, all the way up to the day I retired. I'd buy a brand new "Tele", an "L-5" and a "J-200" just about every year... And they served me well. Maybe I lucked out and we found a decent dealer/sweat shop/builder's school, or whatever they call the places that the Chibsons are made, but I can say that we luckily never got a P.O.S. .... All of them were really decent and were easy to set up. When I'd get bored with one, we'd either give it to someone who was learning to play, or we'd do a drawing and give whoever "won" it a signed souvenir. Actually had a couple of the fakes stolen over the years... I've always wondered what kind of 'splainin the theives had to do if they were caught trying to sell them.
I think Gibson has a trademark on the headstock shape as well. So, it seems like you have to remove and sand off anything that says Gibson on it, and do something to change the shape of the headstock to sell it as a "no name" instrument...who the hell would buy it?
I bought a Jimmy Page #2 Chibson..6 months later, for the money, I have 0 complaints..setup out of the box was far better than any Gibson I've owned...the pups are Epiphone labled and seems to be on par with Epiphone
Chibson factories already been doing fret nibs for some time now recently. Of course the end result is crap, you can tell even by looking at their own promo photos. No nibs actually makes more sense to me, it's more in line with what such a guitar is, which is an Epiphone, plus an unauthorized headstock/logo, minus the quality control.
gibsons fret work sucks the “nibs “ break off and its a cheaper way to bind the neck without under cutting the fret ends and their head stocks break easily also i can play my guitar in complete darkness
As Bo Diddley would put it, "In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks."
Classic reference sir.
I refuse to work on the fakes. Copying a body style is fine by me but when they outright steal and counterfeit another company's logo and intellectual property, that makes them thieves.
I've also had the misfortune on 2 separate occasions of informing dudes that their beloved "Gibson" was a fake. One of them a VERY good fake, but a fake nonetheless.
Those snot colored tuning pegs is one of the first giveaways.
I love your honesty, no turd polishing! Lol
It's easy enough to add fret markers in the binding. I have done it buy drilling a shallow hole and using black fingernail polish dab it in the hole with a toothpick until the whole is filled a little higher than the binding let it cure level it with a razor and polish it and it will look original.
The Ernie Ball strings are the most expensive part of that guitar.
I've seen a lot of videos of Chibsons of various quality but I gotta say that thing is the worst I've seen!
i like the old string choice jingle
Send it to Scar My Guitar. Sean can fix anything.
I have a Chibson with fret nibs, they’ve come along way, scary. I even have a Gibson type bridge and 59 ink stamp serial number. The only way thing they haven’t done yet is the hex head truss rod end. Plus it plays as good as my real 2019 LP Standard.
Wow, it’s got no inlays on the fretboard, just noticed that. How weird that looks to me anyway…
May I help you? Yes I need a cheap guitar I can smash on stage. Why certainly sir I have exactly what you're looking for.
I enjoy your videos! I have learned allot from your videos. I'm not afraid to buy used guitars and clean them up. 👍 👍
I had one of chibson but i would say it playd not great, it did what it sould but yeah it was moor a wallhanger 👍
Some chibsons have the fret nibs like Gibsons. Just a heads up.
Not too fussed with the lack of markers (some ESP custom shops have that as well as a "feature" because some artists don't like markers - to each their own), but man, seeing a fake version of that bridge/trem system on a chibson just compounds the trouble. I wonder if it can even hold tuning and intonate properly. I've seen ones where they f-up the positioning of the bridge too.
Zimm be careful it maybe illegal to sell that guitar!
No its not, selling it as a Gibson is, otherwise its just an homage. Gibson doesn’t own the name “Gibson” they own the logo and fonts.
@@ahf5471Worng! In the U.S., it is illegal to traffic counterfeit goods under federal law protecting trademarks. Trafficking includes the production, transport, and sale of counterfeit goods.
First time convictions carry steep criminal penalties! The maximum penalty for a first-time offense is 10 years in prison and a $2 million fine. For a second-time offense, the penalty is 20 years and a $5 million fine. In addition, if a corporation traffics in counterfeit goods, it can be subject to a fine of $15 million.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/pdf/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap113-sec2320.pdf
So go right on ahead and try it buster, when you do though and you get caught don’t say you were never warned!
@@ahf5471Worng! In the U.S., it is illegal to traffic counterfeit goods under federal law protecting trademarks. Trafficking includes the production, transport, and sale of counterfeit goods.
First time convictions carry steep criminal penalties! The maximum penalty for a first-time offense is 10 years in prison and a $2 million fine. For a second-time offense, the penalty is 20 years and a $5 million fine. In addition, if a corporation traffics in counterfeit goods, it can be subject to a fine of $15 million.
By selling this as “Gipson” you not only violating a copyright which Gipson could sue you for you’re also willingly selling counterfeit goods! This is a serious federal crime you fool!
@@ahf5471 , Counterfeit laws are very clear on this. Counterfeit items are legal to own but under no circumstances are they allowed to be resold or even gifted to another individual(this is considered trafficking). Disclosure plays no significance, resale is illegal!
Store near me has sold them, but make it 100% clear that they're chibsons.
Chibsons are a pain, see then all the time on market place, and people are asking crazy prices for them! I'll dave my pennies and get a studio
That's a pretty piece of 54!t! Like you said, the perfect wall hanger!!!
I set a Chibson LP up last year - it was OK - played well after the set up, looked like a LP and sounded fine. Worked on some awful Gibsons, esp SGs, that wont intonate or stay in tune
The thing w chibson guitars they don't have the same laws as we do here in the states so they can bang out the knock offs and some fool will buy it thinking it's a good guitar,that's the first time you swore but it's the truth dane lol
I'd play it
Imagine a band calling themselves the "Chibsons". 😏 I wonder what sort a band they'd be?🤓
A covers band?
Fret nibs, except for certain years, like 2014.. they don't make this stuff easy :)
never seen a guitar with no fret makers period, that just messed up. to me its a no on chibson guitars
Get yourself some sanding sponges,works wonders on frets and rolls the fretboard edges at the same time, you can get them in different gauges of abrasion, also why do you replace a plastic nut,with another plastic nut, would of been a perfect time to add a bone nut.some one made a mistake on the fret makers in the factory,these vibrolas always need locking tuners.
He didn't replace the nut. He sanded it down and reinstalled it.
How bout throw it away.
I want it 😂
i only ask,why there's a lot of fake china gibsons all the time?is gibson doing something about it?they even dared to sell fake beatles cd box sets,how come they never stop making fake stuff???
Chibson? Sure it's Gibson.
Ya know its is made in the same factory as Epiphone. some of these have Epiphone branded bridges and pickups.
Another reason why I will never buy a Epiphone or any other Chinese “hand crafted” guitar!
Gibson did it themselves by moving to China. But hey, they’re charging more and making more money. China has zero respect for copyright and intellectual property law.
I fear chibson's and Amazon guitars are the future
A real POS - make an offer somebody!!!
With the ridiculous price of Gibsons, I’m not mad chibsons exist, Gibson deserves to get ripped off, just like they do their customers, I own a 1995 explorer, great guitar, but I own guitars 1/4 the price that are simply better with better specs
Conventional interpretation of the law regarding counterfeit guitars suggests that it is not illegal to buy them, but it is illegal to sell them. Once you get your counterfeit from China, it is yours and you're stuck with it. Dane - The 3 you did for me I can never sell with the logos on them. They are great playing guitars and as you stated in the video "paint job is pretty cool". They are worth the money even if I take them a part, sand down the logo and call them Partscasters. I would not sell the guitar even as a copy/counterfit. I would sell a gigbag that the guitar happened to fall into.
I'm a retired pro musician... We toured for years and I learned early on that it wasn't worth carrying my expensive archtops and jumbo acoustics on the road...
Within about the first six years on the road, I or a few guys in the band had lost quite a few instruments to theft.
I discovered the wonders of Chinee Guitar about twenty years ago... And didn't look back, all the way up to the day I retired.
I'd buy a brand new "Tele", an "L-5" and a "J-200" just about every year... And they served me well.
Maybe I lucked out and we found a decent dealer/sweat shop/builder's school, or whatever they call the places that the Chibsons are made, but I can say that we luckily never got a P.O.S. .... All of them were really decent and were easy to set up.
When I'd get bored with one, we'd either give it to someone who was learning to play, or we'd do a drawing and give whoever "won" it a signed souvenir.
Actually had a couple of the fakes stolen over the years... I've always wondered what kind of 'splainin the theives had to do if they were caught trying to sell them.
Even Slash's Destruction LP was not a Gibson. It was made in California.
I think Gibson has a trademark on the headstock shape as well. So, it seems like you have to remove and sand off anything that says Gibson on it, and do something to change the shape of the headstock to sell it as a "no name" instrument...who the hell would buy it?
I’m looking at the real Gibson SGS3 right now. After I locked down the dopey sideways vibrola it’s super dope.
Ya no recovery for it yuk .
A hanging art piece at art gallery .
Spend more time on it than it’s worth, like I do.
Nothing an ice pick can't fix.
I bought a Jimmy Page #2 Chibson..6 months later, for the money, I have 0 complaints..setup out of the box was far better than any Gibson I've owned...the pups are Epiphone labled and seems to be on par with Epiphone
Chibson factories already been doing fret nibs for some time now recently. Of course the end result is crap, you can tell even by looking at their own promo photos. No nibs actually makes more sense to me, it's more in line with what such a guitar is, which is an Epiphone, plus an unauthorized headstock/logo, minus the quality control.
gibsons fret work sucks the “nibs “ break off and its a cheaper way to bind the neck without under cutting the fret ends and their head stocks break easily also i can play my guitar in complete darkness
If they were going to create a copy why not exact! or Better yet enhance the original design!
I don't even like a real SG.... the looks, I know they sound awesome 😎
Yeah those are complete trash only good for firewood.
Decals?
Wow man this is such an awesome guitar I love it. Shred on dude.😃👍❤️🔥⚡️🎶🎸