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During the last years, and especially since the Internet has become a viral medium for all types of purchases, the sale of fake Electric Guitars has increased with great force, and what is worse, most of the time without the buyer having proof of this. There are a growing and an alarming number of counterfeit products from Asia. In Brazil, some already begin to spread and cause severe damage to the market, in addition to apparent losses for stores that sell used products, the primary victims of the blow, the loss of brand credibility is inevitable. The growing proliferation of fake guitars native to China is impressive. Consumer icons such as Gibson, Fender, PRS, Ibanez, Gretsch, Taylor and Epiphone suffer from the vigor of that parallel industry. Counterfeits infringe on property rights and fuel an illicit trade. Distinguishing a replica, copy and counterfeit are essential. The replica is a perfect reproduction, conceived with the intention of accurately recreatin...

During the last decade, Gibson Les Paul Standard Guitars of 1959 sold for $ 50,000 for regular, non-stellar copies of up to $1 million for the legendary "Holy Grail" of Peter Green and Gary Moore, the guitar that Green used to record the first albums Fleetwood Mac, and Gary Moore has repeatedly tested throughout his fruitful career. However, the 1958 and 1960 models are not sold as well and expensive, even when it comes to Blues breakers Les Paul 1960, owned by Eric Clapton. Gibson Les Paul Standard 1959 certainly has a special aura, marked with a dollar sign. Perhaps the main reason for the charismatic attraction of these guitars was precisely that some of the most grandiose rock and roll records from the world's best guitarists were created precisely with their use. Gibson Les Paul Standard 1959 for fans and novice players has the same mystical, sacra significance, as violins, violas and violoncello Stradivari for violinists. Classic Les Paul 1959, d...

Today we would like to discuss one of the several critical skills for a guitar player - the ability to correctly store your instrument so that it has served faithfully for decades. How correctly to store a guitar? The most of a guitar is a tree, which like any other natural material is very sensitive to the influence of the external environment. We have often seen how newcomers and even experienced musicians, because of the lack of basic knowledge of the rules for storing the guitar, brought their instruments to a terrible state and had to pay much money for repairs after that. Today we will tell you how not to make such mistakes. To begin with, imagine a classic situation: you have one or two instruments at home, on which you do not play every day. And you put one of your Gibson Guitars on the floor, leaning it on the couch, after which you open the balcony and air the apartment in a beautiful and warm autumn day. Naturally, your tool will react negatively to such a ...

The name Gibson is one of those that enter the history of music to never get out of it again. The Gibson Guitars have accompanied an unforgettable piece of the history of Rock, as well as others, rightfully entering the legends of a golden age that has left indelible marks in contemporary music. What does playing a Gibson mean today? GIBSON GUITAR: THE ACOUSTIC ORIGINS There is no need to wait for the golden age of the electric guitar to see the pioneering spirit of the Gibson Corporation in action. Orville Gibson, the founder of the legendary American company, enters history as early as the twenties of the twentieth century with the invention of archtop guitars, the unmistakable guitars in which the central hole is replaced by two symmetrical Fs, inspired by stringed instruments such as violins and cellos. Although nowadays the archtop is almost always equipped with electric amplification, the first Gibson guitars were exclusively acoustic and were widely used in big band...

Gibson Les Paul is highly valued guitars by musicians, and, accordingly, is expensive. Many non-honest producers try to profit from their popularity. They produce a terrible quality of Les Paul's replicas which are then sold at a price, many times greater than their real value. You have to understand that Gibson is expensive guitars, so a 300-400 dollar stick on which "Gibson" is written is most probably fake. Also, these Les Paul's have their unique quality, which no fake can forge. Wood of the head of the neck The USP of the majority (not all, however) Les Paul's guitar is that it is made from one bar of mahogany, i.e., the entire neck of the guitar is a single piece of wood. It is, thanks to this feature of the Gibson, that the heads of the guitars have the property of not breaking down. For London Guitar Shop of counterfeit Gibson's, making an authentic head is a big problem, because, with this technology, there is still a lot of unused wood...