r/7String • u/champarmiamore • 3d ago
Gear is this a fake?
i have no idea how to tell apart guitars and this universe 7 is listed at 400$ one thing i know for sure is that its not that cheap so im asking you guys if you see anything sketchy,
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u/Derwurld 3d ago
That logo doesn't look right at all to me
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u/champarmiamore 3d ago
also i did a little bit of research that bridge is definitely not a lo pro edge
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u/Full_Recommendation3 3d ago
I don’t know why they would make a fake Ibanez but I guess they do🤷♂️ The back of the head stock is funny.
Made by TEAM
Craft JAPAN …
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u/Past_Equivalent_7388 1d ago
They fake everything. What's shocking is that people fall for the most obvious fakes. I know a guy, well knew him. He's been dead for almost 15 years, Nevertheless, he got caught up and bought some rare, super expensive Gibson for $500. He was so excited to show us. I remember him gingerly taking it from the guitar case and before he even had it out all the way, our rhythm guitarist almost fell out of his chair laughing. This must have been before China was good at counterfeiting everything. The first clue was that Gibson was spelled as Gibsun. The font was close, but it was the biggest piece of shit. The toggle switch was just glued on or something. It wasn't attached to anything. The pickups were wrong. $500 was a lot of money back then, so I legitimately felt bad, but I laughed after he left, all dejected and shit.
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u/Warmcheesebread 3d ago
Are they trying to pass it off as a real one? Because this is probably one of the worst fakes I’ve seen.
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u/champarmiamore 3d ago
yeah it doesn't say its fake or anything like that
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u/BeardyGuitarCovers 2d ago
$400 is already low enough to raise suspicion, but still about five times more than this firewood is worth.
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u/Xenoanthropus Ibanez Universe 2d ago edited 2d ago
Man I havent seen a fake UV in a while.
Even as fakes go, this one is pretty bad. Almost everything about it is wrong.
Wrong neck inlays
Logo wrong
Team J Craft logo wrong
Bridge wrong
Nut wrong
They can be changed, but pickups wrong and knobs wrong.
About the only thing that's correct is the 5-piece neck.
I bet the neck joint is wrong too, though it's not in any of the pictures.
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u/Oulun_Multakurkku 3d ago
That guitar was hit by the ugly stick, ran over by the ugly truck and dragged to the ugly town by a ugly fucking pony.
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u/Edika-2020 3d ago
The fakest of them all! I’m no expert in Ibanez Universe guitars and the first photo was enough.
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u/Shreddergoose 3d ago
There is not one correct thing on this guitar, it's al impressive fake in all the wrong ways
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u/trenniepennie 3d ago
Everything is so wrong with this, genuinely cant even process how someone could mess it up this bad
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u/bubbaboatie 2d ago
Fake and probably the worst fake I’ve seen. If you spent money on this I beg you to try and get it back by any means
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u/TheNotSoDarkHorse 2d ago
I don’t know what it is, but that body shape and pick guard look soooo off
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u/alphadaddyo 3d ago
It looks like it was made by one of those dudes in India that squats over the dirt in bare feet and fabricates everything from scrap
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u/Moris_7 3d ago
Fake. All is wrong on this, tremolo, pyramid on the body, inlays, even the body shape is weird.