Brightight

As a guitar repairer/restorer I've had a few of these Chinese rep 'Gibsons' brought to me for repair, a 335 is in the workshop at this very minute with a broken neck. Broken at the scarf joint...... sorry, scarf joint on a Gibbo? I don't think so. This is the problem, to me it is clearly a fake for about 100 reasons, to the owner it is a genuine 335. He bought it from some scammer who made a tidy profit. Do I tell him? Had a guy with a Les Paul he'd had for ten years, his pride and joy, but obviously was an Epi that someone had redone the headstock with a Gibson pearl logo and decals. Don't get me wrong, the Epi LP wth a pair of Bareknuckle pick ups on (if you haven't heard of them, you should) is a cracking guitar, but a Gibson it isn't. The woods are not the same and the construction is slightly different. For cheap guitars, they're cheap guitars. Nothing more. Yes the Chinese currently produce very good low end guitars but they have a ways to go. Fwatch, a 64 Jag refinished to natural? Rechromed? You make me weep.................... I spend a good number of my waking hours rectifying abuse like that!! Wash your mouth out with soap and have that poor old guitar restored with a proper nitro finish and some aged parts. Incidentally, the watch to wear with a Strat is a Breitling. Wonderful resonance and sustain. With a Les Paul you need something lighter and brighter.

Hi All, I'm fairly new to the world of rep watches, having made do with Seiko watches for many many years (no complaints either, they gave good service), until a friend brought me back a fake Breitling from Dubhai as a joke,