40-50 days maybe.

I can't say I've ever heard of this brand,the logo especially the G is in the Gibson script probably to fool people into thinking the brand is tied in with Gibson like the Orville was.If that guitar was kept in a case for 40 or 50 yrs the plated parts would still be showing some fading or discolouration.No doubt some unsuspecting schmuck will buy it.

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Never heard of them which does not mean the company has not been around long, but somehow I feel there might me a Japan connection and it might be another name used by a bigger Japan based company.

[quote="Nevin1985"]Browsing the local classifieds I came across a super strange Gibson Les Paul copy. I have never seen or heard of this brand ever....

FY'allI: Just this morning we were talking trademarks with my attorney traveling partner as a result of a case he's representing a client on. You can't patent a silhouette or a shape which has not a unique function. The Strat body might have been had they done so years ago. Fender lost its case because it waited too long. The body had become generic by this time.

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"Gunn" is new to me, but I bet it is a post-law suit name invented after Fender and Gibson got tough with the Japanese companies producing exact replicas of their products in the '70s. So this guitar very possibly dates from the handful of years just after that.

Though perhaps it actually predates the legal action - similar to Tokai writing their name in a spaghetti script designed to trick the eye into thinking it says Fender:


Incidentally:

Orville was a brand set up by Gibson themselves in the '80s to address the demand for versions of their guitars in Japan. So that one genuinely was tied in with the parent brand, it wasn't an attempt to fool anyone.

Cheers - C

For the right price it could be a gem. Slash recorded "Appetite" on a no name Les Paul copy.

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I had a quick look on google, the only hit I came up with was Will Gunn guitars. They look nothing like the OP's pic above though.

Hi Ceri,I guess I didn't word my post right,what I meant was that the Gunn company was trying to make it look like they were tied in with Gibson the same way Orville was.Anyway since we're talkingabout Orvilles,my buddy recently bought an Orville and did a sound comparison at a jam with a recent Les Paul and theOrville won,the pups were much hotter and just sounded better over all.Maybe Gibson should revisit the old Orville factory for some pointers.

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