Your thoughts: The Miracle Guitar and fake Gibsons

Plenty of you had a lot to say on last weeks Miracle Guitar story, most of which wasn't good. Here's a couple of the comments from readers:

Philvis: "You want how much for that out of tune unintonated Tele? Are plum crazy. In the 40 years I've been tuning guitars it's happened a few times but I didn't make a big how to do out of it. Shit happens!"

Dags: "Who cares if they line up or not... Just play your f****** guitar."

Nathan: "You want to hear something amazing? All the keys on my Roland digital piano are perfectly aligned as well - holy crap - and there are like 88 of them!"

Bobby: "All you have to do is adjust the bridge."

But it didn't phase Michael Fenemore, owner of the Miracle Guitar.

Fenemore: "Let's see you do it. :-)"

Read the Miracle Guitar article.

Meanwhile, Gibson's press release on spotting a fake Gibson guitar was very popular.

Shwan: "I recently visited Asia and saw one of these fake Gibsons in a store. My first reaction was, that can't be a genuine Gibson. As this article states, there was an obvious cheapness to the guitar, I didn't even pick it up, just looking at it in the window I could see that it was wasn't a high quality instrument. All of the clues mentioned above were there."

Van: "I just bought a Gibson Les Paul Standard. One way to make this a little safer is to take the Gibson product code and serial number and call the Gibson toll free number right in the store and check them out. I did it and the guitar was exactly what they said it was. If the store balks when you ask them to do this-go somewhere else!"

GuitarSite forum users often discuss the problem of counterfeit guitars and are more than happy to help regular users spot fakes.

I'm really enjoying the new commenting system. Reading your thoughts (and flames) on the news we run is not only exciting to read, but it shows what sort of articles you want published.

- Michael

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