Fake or Genuine?

SlopeSoarer

I'm looking at the following on eBay but something made me think it may be fake.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-Gibson-Les-Paul-Double-Cutaway/223564455463?hash=item340d7ade27:g:4aUAAOSwVXpdESfV

I Googled to find a similar model and found this Fretboard sale from 2015:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/37450/sold-2005-gibson-les-paul-double-cut-special-faded-cherry

There are differences (tuners, rear cover), is the eBay one fake?

ICBM

Genuine.

The tuners have been changed, they're notorious for breaking and the white-button ones are hard to get. Those are Schaller-logo ones, which are otherwise identical to the Gibson ones with the same keys. (Some Gibson ones of that style are made by Grover.)

SlopeSoarer

Thanks: )

Funkfingers

The keystone buttons on that specific guitar look doubly wrong because they are the “double ring” type. Gibson Standard model guitars usually have “single ring” buttons.

ICBM

Funkfingers said:

The keystone buttons on that specific guitar look doubly wrong because they are the “double ring” type. Gibson Standard model guitars usually have “single ring” buttons.

For some reason Schaller do that - single ring on the Gibson-logo ones they make, double ring (which is like 70s Gibsons) on their own-logo ones.