Gumby Santana headstock shape
Gumby Santana headstock shape
Seriously!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shawn@PRS
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Originally Posted by docbennett
Are you serious???? For someone who spends as much cash as you do on PRS guitars and sells them to others.....you surely need to educate yourself. :rolleyes:
"From What I could see on my smart phone..."Quote:
Originally Posted by Jet Whitey
That is a perfect description.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shawn@PRS
Strap button.
Forget the rest of the guitar, just looking at the inlay work or the quality of the top you can tell.
This is what they tried:
http://static.musiciansfriend.com/de...smokeburst.jpg
http://static.musiciansfriend.com/de...ck_closeup.jpg
Again I wonder...
Are we educating the counterfeiters?
I'm not suggesting we kill this conversation but it sure begs the question.
just looks like poo...plain and simple.
"I'm Gumby Santana, dammit!" :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Shawn@PRS
At least they spelled 'anniversary' right this time! :D
The question begs.............................. What if I made a couple thousand of these myself & tried to sell them?
I think we gotta face the facts. One day in the near future, it's going to be very difficult to tell a real PRS from a Chinese copy by looking at photographs like these (lower res, shots of the whole guitar, no detail).
You just gotta get them in your hands, check the balance, check the feel, twiddle the knobs, plug it in... Buy from reputable dealers/sellers, use protection services like paypal (although not foolproof). Buying unseen off CL (or Gumtree for us Aussies) is just pot luck.
Good thing there is great customer service, plus an official PRS forum (with some members who know a scary amount about PRSes!) to help authenticate guitars of dubious origins.
Like I've said in the past, "A doctor can tell you how to remove your appendix, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to actually do it". If someone wants to fake a PRS bad enough (or anything else) they just buy one and tear it apart until they feel they've sufficiently copied it. Chances are it'll be a piece of crap. If they had any real talent they'd be making their own guitars and not making knock offs of someone else's stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by ]-[ @ n $ 0 |v| a T ! ©
Not until they start looking really good.Quote:
Originally Posted by ]-[ @ n $ 0 |v| a T ! ©
FakeQuote:
Originally Posted by Artist
:laugh:
Ha I just thought of one of those "Real or Fake" surveys!
Something also looks weird about the pickup placement and especially the angle of the bridge pickup, the tuning machines' "PRS" letters on the back are very poorly done, the headstock shape is wrong, where the headstock meets the neck is shaped wrong, placement of the controls is wrong, switch is wrong, pickup surrounds are wrong, jack plate is wrong, knobs are wrong color, eagle inlay is wrong, and of course the dragon inlay itself looks like it was done with toilet seat material, and is pretty inartistic.
Live and learn.
It's very hard to police this kind of thing, and the Chinese government has shown little interest in protecting US copyrights and trademarks. But that guitar is so poorly done that it shouldn't fool anyone into thinking it's real, unless they've never inspected a real PRS.
Apologies for my earlier post if it offends, I just assumed fakes would not be appreciated on the official forum. I must admit I'm surprised by the stance taken.
That was part of my concern.Quote:
Originally Posted by ]-[ @ n $ 0 |v| a T ! ©
Not PRS' opinion, but I always liked this mindset (from Rework):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307463745
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Originally Posted by james
How about putting a sign up that says Mario Batali's Grill?