John Lennons rick.....fake?

xcoyle · Post by **xcoyle** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:28 pm

My opinion they are the same guitar. The wood will be either long straight lines or rounded patches. While some of the lines are not as clear as they use to, they are there. I don’t see any area that was a “line” that is now a “patch.”

emswife · Post by **emswife** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:25 am

Here's the kicker?

Why would someone want to fake the guitar? Yoko has it? And unless this is someone trying to fob it to an auction house, what's the point?

Like I said before, this seems to be another "Paul is dead" kind of deal.

By the way, since I live in Dallas, I have figured who was on the grassy knoll...

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:27 am

Just to play the devils advocate could it have been possible for a certain ex-personal assistant to have made the switch?

I don't believe that is the case myself but I' a trouble maker at heart I guess

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:43 pm

Maybe it was Russ Gibb! LOL I'm sure he's still laughing at the Paul is dead theory. The original link looks the same as in the Beatles Gear book. The one Andrew posted is too hard to make out the grain, at least for me, but the fret board is much darker in that one.

larrywassgren · Post by **larrywassgren** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:41 pm

Just check out the headstock grain, it's the same today as it was in 1958. I saw the guitar in Tokyo and it's without a doubt the real deal like everything else Yoko has loaned to that museum.

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:58 pm

"could it have been possible for a certain ex-personal assistant to have made the switch?"

The Red Violin anyone?