I haven't yet, but I did run across one that claimed they got a factory defect that therefore it should be worth more on trade in. It was a little martin with a white pickguard on it. Little Martins don't come with pickguards and since he ordered it from the factory, it was a defect. the pickguard was poorly applied and had a corner coming offer. As far as I know, Martin sends all factory placed orders through a dealer. I passed on the deal.

I did see a Gibson that I wished were a fake, but it was a licensed product. It had sharp, as in cut you, frets, a fretboard cracked in three distinct lines, nearly ruster through strings, and very warped pickup enclosures. It was new and in the box. I can't believe Gibson would let someone produce such a junker in their name.

I saw a purple Martin once...

but it flew away!

I saw a fake Gibson in a music store last summer. I'm not an expert on Gibson's but I've played a few and know enough to say it was an imposter. For one thing the "logo" on the headstock was painted on way off center. (has Gibson ever painted on their logo's?) and there was no sticker on the inside. But the biggest thing was the quality was horrible. I too didn't say anything. Mostly because I didn't want to interrupt the the teenaged salesman who was in the middle of a sale at the time and I didn't want to make my wife and kids wait out in the lot just so I could tell him that his boss was asking about $950.00 too much for a fake.

The one consolation I felt  when walking out was that nobody who actually played it would buy it. The action was so high that it was almost impossible to get a clear chord out of it.

J.R.

[QUOTE=Hesh]Man it's stuff like this that could give pawn shops a bad reputation........ [/QUOTE]

Ha! I laughed out loud ad that one Hesh. You should be writing for Letterman!