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Fake Heritage guitar : how to recognize them ?


yngwieaddict

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All the fake Heritages I've seen have a wider headstock that says "Gibson"..

Very easy to spot. There are even some Chinese fakes that say "epiphone"

Big Bob - you got a great sense of humor man! Not unexpected from a fellow Bigsby fan I guess..........

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Definitely original , no one fakes the Heritage smudgy serial number ;)

Agreed! what is up with the squished number? I once through I had something bogus because of that. I have a late 80s that the number is just about perfect - but also have something with something much less refined. Does anyone know why they went that way?

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Good call on the scarf neck joint. Just about every Chinese (and Korean and Indonesian) guitar made has a scarf joint neck. It takes less wood, and it a lot easier to make than the way Heritage does it with two necks coming from one board with each being one piece.

 

A scarf joint isn't necessarily bad, its just not the way Heritage does it!

 

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