The USA Banned These 36 Guitars from Entering | What Were They and How Much?

welcome back troglodytes to your daily dose of guitar information the trogly's guitar show the big news that is sweeping the guitar nation is this airport customs office seizes 36 counterfeit guitars allegedly played by famous musicians okay so i keep getting sent this article so i figured we would talk about it i think this is being completely blown out of proportion simply to create awareness and try to get people to stop buying counterfeit guitars from china and to scare people who've always been thinking about ordering one of these things from ever wanting to buy it i'll leave a link in the description if you'd like to read this article yourself but basically it just says the customs border protection officers opened up some packages and they found some counterfeit goods which totaled 36 counterfeit guitars at their washington dulles international airport now first off i really hope that this does not come as a shock to anybody that counterfeit guitars come into the country every single day and i highly doubt that custom agents always take them out take nice photos of them and start posting them online i think what makes this particular shipment interesting is almost every single one of these instruments are signature guitars of some sort and i'm guessing whoever did this is not necessarily a musician and that's why it's allegedly played by famous musicians no these are just signature guitars so i thought it would be fun to see if they were actually right with this absurd suggested retail price of you know 160 000 u.s my big question is why even put that in the article it makes absolutely no sense these are fake guitars they're worth about 300 to 400 dollars a piece i don't endorse buying counterfeits but if you're gonna get one at least get it without the gibson branding on it because you might know it's fake but if you pass away and your family comes in and goes oh wow this is a real gibson they're gonna sell it as a real thing maybe get into legal troubles i've actually just ran into that very recently in private help sessions i had a family come to me they're like hey can you appraise these guitars for me it's like i'm sorry they're like all fake now there were a few good real ones in there it's just kind of a sticky situation i always like how uh philip mcknight uh he he brands the fake guitars that he ever works on is fake so people will know but anyways let's go ahead and dive into this so first off we have a couple of slash appetite for destruction last polls how many one two three and four i think we can count it as four now if we really zoom in here there is a difference between these this is a knock off of the gibson usa version whereas this is a counterfeit of the custom shop edition let's just assume there's two of each in this lot because we can't see the head stocks of the other ones this looks like it would be the other usa because it's got it on the case and this is not the newest version this is the old one the original appetite les pauls are actually very very popular so popular it looks like even the epiphone version can sell for some pretty crazy money however i'll go pretty conservatively here and say that they're both worth about 4 500 bucks if they were real however as far as the aged and signed if that's what they were going for and not like the vos i mean people are asking twenty eight thousand thirty four thousand fifty thousand this seems like crazy numbers i can't actually find any particularly sold listings so let's just do a really conservative fifteen thousand the next one i see looks like a jim root telecaster to me you can just barely make out the emg pickups and the white you can still buy these things brand new they're 1400 but i want to do all this on the used market because sometimes things are worth more than they are brand new so let's say a conservative one thousand dollars on that one next up what is this sg i don't think this actually exists i mean feel free to correct me if i'm wrong but what that is based off of is the gibson scorpion series it was a limited edition done in 2018 they did a whole bunch of different colors i would love to get one of these one day because they're kind of like the super 400 les paul customs where they get the super 400 inlays and then pretty much the only other special thing about it is you get a different colored stripe up here yellow's not necessarily my favorite but some people might like it but you get the kind of the racing stripe type thing it's meant to look like these scorpion lines so since that guitar doesn't really exist we can only estimate i would guess brand new it'd be anywhere between 5500 to 6000 so that puts it in the used market probably around 4 000. that leads us next to this one i'm not quite sure what that one's going after i don't know if they're trying to go after like the first sunburst les paul but i don't think that's true because it looks like it has a wrap tail piece so this can just be billed as a typical r4 in a less than normal finish not necessarily an artist's signature guitar or it's just one i'm not familiar of or thinking of right now assuming they're going off of like an early 2000s one those aren't quite as desirable we'll give that one a 2 800 evaluation next up we have the zack wilde looks like the flying v to me if you go to the headstock i don't think his les paul has that kind of a headstock zack wild fakes are all over the place if you're ever buying a zach wild guitar look for the certificate of authenticity if they've lost it look to an expert for help because some of the fakes they can be pretty good we're not talking the overseas replicas those are you know if you know your stuff you can usually see them but we're talking like actual fakes where people take like a bernie or some other lawsuit era guitar that looks pretty correct like an orville by gibson then they refinish it and make it look like a real gibson those are the real tough ones and these things are quite expensive so used today we have one at 6 500 bucks and one at 85. recent sales show us anywhere between about four to five is about what you're going to regularly see so let's just call it an even 4 500 box what makes these things interesting is a they have a 4 control layout a floyd rose your toggle switch is in a strange location but that's the way zack likes it we kind of saw that on the sgv as well i mean this is a really cool 50 style flying v except for you don't have the string through and it's defloyd rose it seems so strange but at the same time it's like blending a flying v custom in with a more vintage look so these things are actually pretty cool and now this to me looks like a prs dragon you can just barely make out the dragon right there and if you know nothing about those we're talking five figures i mean here's a couple that have been selling brand new for like 18 there's a 19 there's a 16 and a half but remember i mean these aren't really particularly fantastic dragons in my opinion so just typing in here prs green dragon this is how people find this stuff the whole reason that they're posting this article is to hope that people don't actually buy these when they see this yeah so here's a dragon that looks kind of similar basically the way that these dragons go is paul always wanted a guitar with a dragon on it so that kind of birthed the dragon series sometimes it's on the neck sometimes it's on the body i particularly like the ones that kind of encapsulate both except for this one i i'm not a big fan of that one you just have this big nose on your fretboard but something like this that is pure artwork i might not necessarily love playing a double neck but if there is a dueling dragon to know about it would be something like that i've got other fish to fry so let's just call it 15 000. next up here we have a hendrix moderate jack stratocaster at least that's what i call it in my head i'll be honest i don't know the story on this one i just know the design people are kind of going crazy on the prices of these i'm going to use the like lowest on this one though because it was just a made in mexico run looks like they discontinued it around 2018 if we can believe reverb specs here so we'll call it 15. and oh my goodness there is one left-handed guitar just all the way back there they didn't want you to notice it that's the first time i've seen that i can't quite make out if that's trying to be a 1954 with a rap tale like this one or it's actually trying to be a 52 that almost looks like it let's let's bill that as a 52 and we'll call it a real 52. well should we bill it as a real 52 i mean that that'd be 15 000 or so yeah we'll just do that i mean as a reissue it would be like 3 000 ish they don't do many r2s though that one i kind of feel bad for lefties just can't get nice guitars now what i found most interesting is the friely les paul right here is the one that the article claims is the most expensive out of this whole bunch clearly it's probably the dragon so far or the aged and signed appetite for destruction but they're also going off of manufacturers pricing and it's kind of hard to see if they're going for like aged and signed which you know some people asking 25 don't know if they're getting that but you can also find like a nice one like this which is i believe what this one was trying to go after it's got his face on it but i do love the case purple interior ace fraley awesome let's call it a nice 6 000. we'll be generous it's interesting that they value it at 9000 but that's a retail price i'm guessing that's the over exaggerated one that they'll never get and then there's the one that's actually at the store moving on here looks like a j200 i can't say i know too much about the market on those i'll just write down 35. we'll come back to this guy now this was kind of cool to see i have no idea what that guitar is did they ever make a 295t i'm i'm not familiar with that i'm guessing what that is is the manufacturers have never actually seen an es295 in person yeah i'm not seeing a 295t but they have done a 175t in the 70s at least yeah 1976-79 i remember the first time i saw one of these it's like what i didn't know they did that so let's say it's a converted one of these guys because t stands for thin line and if it's been worked on we're gonna be about what three thousand bucks you know that's kind of a interesting idea for like the made to measure program but as a signature model they're going after the scotty moore vibe it doesn't have his exact setup but i'm betting that's what they were trying to do now this freaky thing is actually the alvin lee signature and they just recently reissued that again it looks like today we could buy one for about six thousand dollars i'm hoping that one day i can just pick one of these things up at a good price so we can do the full review and documentation because with having multiple runs of them in theory we should be able to get one then we got a couple of blueberry burst 335s and then that one is a les paul custom of some sort so we'll just give them general three thousand dollar used on the customs and i'll give it the same to the figured blueberries i mean brand new they would be a bit more than that though i just know this video is getting pretty long the strats i don't really know enough to say anything so we'll just call them like a thousand bucks each even though they're likely some sort of like a custom choppery issue instead of the usa stuff editor's note i couldn't see it till i zoomed in the black one's actually a richie sambora signature that thing's kind of cool well i think we'll do the same on the telly and i'll write down 25 on that one so that moves us here is this a blue widow no this is actually a centipede burst you can tell because you got the different colors on the headstock these things are kind of cool it's like a blue widow except for traditionally they get the yellow binding and some of them have really interesting color variations in the hue but besides the red colored headstock logos right there the coolest feature has to be the centipede on the back of the headstock that's definitely another one i want to get one day so we'll write roughly 4 500 but i think brand new those are like 8 000 or something crazy this just looks like a standard black beauty oh is that a knob right there it might be and since we're doing signature guitars let's go ahead and say that's a mickey baker les paul these things are cool they're so strange having three knobs in a row like that but it allows you to get all the tonal possibilities here imagine if you put split coils on each of those we'll call that a cool 5000 box sometimes those are more expensive than that it just depends how many are ever on the market and they did not make many of them and we're starting to get towards the end so these are two angus young signature sg's they're pretty much replicas of each other lately those things have been going up in value my kind of a relatively beat up one sold for 2500 really fast but people have been selling them for about 35 now so we'll call those both 3250s then it looks like we have some sort of a generic r9 i'm sure it's some sort of a signature but we'll write down 4 000 bucks so that leaves the stevie ray vaughan i mean i guess we could say it's probably going after the brazilian rosewood fretboard version which wow somebody only wants 24 that doesn't seem right let's just call it a cool 3000 box and that just leaves whatever this is and some martin i'm guessing that martin is probably a pretty high end one i i really can't make out the inlays and i'm really not even sure what that is so we'll say 5 000 bucks there so what is our grand total here we got about 150 000 and what did they say nice actually did pretty good job doing that i'm impressed i thought that was just all arbitrary numbers but that actually does reflect what i know based on the used market for these particular ones oh and now i'm seeing a different photo here it looks like we missed a les paul custom i missed one martin here looks like another r4 and a limed mahogany les paul jr yeah that would have added up to about you know 10 to 15 000 so yeah their values are spot on that is fascinating so i hope your troglodytes enjoyed going through all these and figuring out what they were and how much they would be worth if they were real and if you learn nothing else about this please do not order these fake guitars because in this situation when they do get seized you're out your money and you're out the guitar don't forget to like comment and subscribe and we will catch you tomorrow on the next episode take care [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 15min 47sec (947 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021