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Post subject: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:20 pm
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Looking for any and all info out there on this unique neck:

I've obtained from eBay a gorgeous CS custom made birdseye maple neck fat 50s style. Billie Joe Armstrong even signed his initial on the heel. I've matched the neck with pictures of him playing it with a baby blue body.

As the story goes, Billie Joe custom ordered 2 or 3 replicas of his childhood guitar, an 80s Fernandes Strat lawsuit edition copy. He supposedly smashed them all...which even the most casual Green Day fan can surely believe. Ebay seller claims it was abandoned on a tour bus he rented out to the band in 1997/1998 and the band never returned his numerous calls to pick up the neck.

He sanded off the Fender and Custom Contour Body logos off the headstock, but the Custom Shop logo on rear of headstock remains. I received the neck with two sets of four holes (so eight holes) for a body attachment, so I had my luthier plug them up before drilling fresh to attach to my new body.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/lctaylor88 ... 266203918/

...I've since purchased a blue Mexican Fender Classic Series 50s body and appropriate parts to "re-make" the same guitar he had. Duncan JB in bridge. Duncan Antiquity singlecoils. Amazing guitar.


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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:09 pm
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Uh huh.

So where's the photo of the "Custom Shop" logo?

Hope you didn't pay a lot of money for this neck. :roll:

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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:01 am
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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:47 am
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bluesky636 wrote:
Uh huh.

So where's the photo of the "Custom Shop" logo?

Hope you didn't pay a lot of money for this neck. :roll:



Jealous, ya big shot? The heel stamps say what you're looking for :lol: If I feel like photographing the back of the headstock, maybe I will. I paid only $400 which is a crazy good deal for a birdseye American CS neck, let alone who owned it and played it. 8) It also came with Sperzel locking tuners already on it.


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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:14 am
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Jealous? Hardly. Your "story" about the neck is laughable:

"As the story goes ...."

"He supposedly ..."

"E-Bay seller claims ..."

"He sanded off the Fender and Custom Contour Body logos ..."

All "solid proof" that the neck is what you say it is. :lol: :lol: :lol:

This forum deals with fake Custom Shop guitars on a regular basis. Without documented proof, your neck is nothing but a $400 neck with some unprovable scribbles on it. Enjoy.

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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:55 am
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Okay, snobbypants. But who would pass off a BIRDSEYE neck with $75 Sperzel tuners as a fake? Please stop spamming my post with your ignorance.


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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:09 pm
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Ummmm, the guy you bought the neck from. You clearly have no concept of the amount of forgery that exists today and the attention to detail of the forgers.

Face it. You have zero proof that the neck is what the seller claims or you believe it is.

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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:44 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
Ummmm, the guy you bought the neck from. You clearly have no concept of the amount of forgery that exists today and the attention to detail of the forgers.

Face it. You have zero proof that the neck is what the seller claims or you believe it is.

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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:58 pm
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Okay. I submit myself to the mercy of people who know better than myself:

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You can see the marks from the sandpaper Armstrong used to remove the Fender logos. Pretty ironic I'm disputing the authenticity of a Fender neck that had the logos removed on purpose.


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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:09 pm
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Not impressed.

Do some research on fake Fender Custom Shop guitars.

Enjoy your nec.

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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:12 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
Not impressed.

Do some research on fake Fender Custom Shop guitars.

Enjoy your nec.

Ha! You know it's real. Feelin' smug, eh?


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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:00 pm
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Actually bluesky, everything does look to be in order, just needed to see the back of the headstock... Ultimately Mike or Brad would be the final judgement. I do know Floyd has gone through a $@!& ton of necks and pickups, Billy and his tech even talk about it in the recent GW article.

Regardless it's a good looking piece, congrats on the neck and best of luck to you

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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:05 pm
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I'll believe it's real when ME says it is real. Until then it is just a guitar neck with no proof to back up the OP's claims.

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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:31 pm
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chanman246 wrote:
Actually bluesky, everything does look to be in order, just needed to see the back of the headstock... Ultimately Mike or Brad would be the final judgement. I do know Floyd has gone through a $@!& ton of necks and pickups, Billy and his tech even talk about it in the recent GW article.

Regardless it's a good looking piece, congrats on the neck and best of luck to you


Thanks Chanman! By Floyd, do you mean Billie Joe's favorite 50s Les Paul Junior? Because the LPJ is a set neck. I've read that GW article. Billie Joe sweats out his Duncan JBs every now and then and he also changes tuners, too, sometimes.

From researching photos/videos, I am positive this neck was used on his main "Blue" copy of his old Strat...that he named Blue. I'd love for Fender to at least confirm an order invoice, but not counting on that happening. I welcome Mike or Brad to PM me to exchange thoughts.

A quick forum search shows a few other fans here. Here's a video of the neck in use for the first good half of a live set in 1998.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLn8D5CBt6Q


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Post subject: Re: '97 Billie Joe/Green Day CS neck via eBay
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:59 pm
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Looks real to me.

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