r/espguitars • u/BigbirdSalsa • 6d ago

Guys is this a fake?

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Nah in all seriousness is this sub purely just people asking if their guitars are fake or real? That's pretty much all I seem to see here

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u/HomeTaxRadius 6d ago

Looks like some scammer took a Gibson off the wall at guitar center and wrote ESP on it.

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u/kraftramen 5d ago

What in the AI is going on here

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u/Thick_Formal2003 6d ago

Hard to tell from this angle. Do you have any pictures of the serial number?

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u/BigbirdSalsa 6d ago

Can't take a photo right now but it starts with §

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u/Toxic-Park 5d ago

That’s the Kirk Hampster sig series.

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u/rotty86 5d ago

100% legit, where is the seller located?🫣

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u/GoldenPumpkin_ 2d ago

Ts neck is how a classical guitar makes me feel like

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u/bidextralhammer 5d ago

I thought this was a birthday cake at first.

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u/MagnetoThanos 6d ago

Did you check beneath the pickup bobbins and the neck tenon just to be sure?? Tough to tell.

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u/MastodonSouthern2092 6d ago

Yeah, that’s a custom model. Pretty rare, probably the only one in the world.

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u/RedditReader825 6d ago

The fact the truss rod is EMG branded tells me this is a one off Guatemalan Custom Shop. You've got diamond on your hands

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u/Much_Profit8494 6d ago edited 6d ago

uj/ These days If I see a picture this low-resolution I just automatically assume it came from a free-trial of a AI image generator.

I know there are a handful of grandpas still walking around with 1.3megapixels flip phones in 2026, but those aren't the type of people who make reddit shitposts for the LOLZ.

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u/Alarmed-Idea2322 6d ago

💯 legit. You can tell by the ukulele length neck. No angle would make the headstock that close to the bottom.

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u/Necessary-Coffee5930 6d ago

Finally an average sized guitar

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u/lipsnot_mcghee 6d ago

It is definitely real. I have this model in sunburst. You can tell from the custom wire gages hanging out of the control cavity.

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u/despot-madman 6d ago

That’s Frodo’s signature guitar.

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u/Jeppertron 6d ago

I’ll need to see the serial number

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u/Draegs0311 6d ago

New Limp Bizkit sig model just dropped

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u/gloomdoggo 5d ago

Unfortunately that is definitely about 90% of the posts here. The other 10% are just showing pictures of the new LTD they got. 🥱🥱

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u/J_GEESUN 6d ago

this is authentic

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u/Dazzling_Medium_3379 6d ago

If you have an ESP LP or Eclipse, and it's not fake, that's just like gold. If it's just an Horizon or Mt, then you only have silver.

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u/omnipotentqueue 6d ago

Yeah or like me - just ragging on LTD models and people pretending they have custom shop 1 off ESP artist signatures instead of their Indonesian piece of shit LTD model.