A few more days of chasing a delivery date and the guitar finally arrived in a parcel looking like this:

Horrible looking tape all around a polystyrene box which when opened revealed this box that looked like it had been damp at some point:

Needless to say that as soon as I opened the box I realised it was in fact another fake.

Giveaways include these volume and tone pots:

They should of course look like this:

Other giveaways include this pickup selector switch:

It should of course look like this (no surround):

I’m also quite doubtful about the back of the headstock. Here is the picture of the back of the guitar I received:

And the stock Epiphone photo looks like this – note the colour difference in the circular logo:

The neck to body join at the heel also looks awful:

When compared to this:

I have posted loads more pictures of the fake I have received here

And a few pictures of a genuine guitar taken from the Epiphone website here

I’m in the process of pursuing the seller through both EBay and PayPal. I have been asked by EBay to obtain independent expert confirmation of the guitar being a counterfeit.
So far Gibson have been quite helpful – they have asked for photographs of the guitar which I have now sent to them for confirmation.

I’ll update this post with progress and details as and when I get them

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