The counterfeiting hardly stops with cheap copies that have gone all the way to where they label the thing Gibson. Hopefully you'll never be so unfortunate to buy one at a price which would befit a legitimate Gibson Les Paul. In fact, there are many many Gibson counterfeit guitars out there. In order to counterfeit a Gibson Les Paul, someone would have to make a fake Les Paul that literally said Gibson on the headstock. Why Buy a Les Paul copy?įirst of all, none of the guitars here are counterfeits.
Tom Anderson, being less equipped to fight mighty Gibson in courts of law, simply stopped making his Bulldog. Rightly, the lawsuit against Paul Reed Smith failed. Neither of which are copies of the Gibson Les Paul at all. Strangely enough, and as time has passed on, Gibson filed a lawsuit against Paul Reed Smith for his PRS singlecut guitars, and Tom Anderson for his Bulldog guitar. Someone could be discussing lawsuit guitars and be referring to copies of a Stratocaster or Telecaster.
The term covers more models of copied American guitar than just the Les Paul. There was only the threat of a lawsuit, and a huge lot of guitars people describe as lawsuit guitars. There wasn't an actual lawsuit by Gibson against any Japanese guitar manufacturer.
