I happened across this article regarding fake guitars coming out of China. I just want to say beware if you shop Craigslist or Ebay if you shop for a guitar specially a high end guitar like Gibson. You can call Gibson and Fender and have them varify a serial number (which I have done before) if you are looking at a guitar to buy. Inspect the item well in photos and if the deal sounds too good to be true it probably is.
Counterfeit Guitar Bust Yields 861 Gibson Fakes, Ends with Prison Sentence
Doing a word search of Chinese forgery it seems guitars are not the only thing being counterfeited there.
Seems to me they could produce guitars under their line or name and probably market them but then again a real Gibson Lespaul goes for $2000 and up so a fake one could bring a nice profit to them.
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