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Post subject: Re: Fake guitar?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:59 am
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Vulpinity wrote:
You'd be surprised, actually - There were a few USA Squiers made in 1989 and 1990. Cheap tuners and pickups, but otherwise really nice guitars.


Yep. It's very possible that guitar is exactly what the seller claims -- a USA Squier body with a replacement neck. They even had US-style serial numbers starting with "E" or "N", and since Fender/Squier serials aren't always entirely accurate it's possible he copied the original "E8" serial when he made the decals for that replacement neck.

It's very hard to place a value on partsocasters. It wouldn't be worth $225 to me but it doesn't strike me as an outrageous ripoff even if it's not a USA Squier body.

It might be a little weasel-y that he didn't explicitly say it's a non-Fender neck with fake decals but it's not necessarily a "scam" or "fake guitar".


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Post subject: Re: Fake guitar?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:56 am
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Wow....Thanks.... I really had never heard of that!...

But surely, the fender logo on the front of the headstock looks like an after sales decal!!..
I does to me, you can even see the edge of the 'transfer' if you really zoom in on it.
Not to mention, isnt it an older Spaghetti logo type?, while the headstock shape suggests it would have the 70's bolder type.. It just looks wrong...
And wouldnt it say Squire on the front?....

And I think we can all agree that it isnt a CS guitar.... so if the seller put that decal on, id be willing to bet that the front decal is from the same source.

Haha either way.... Im not gonna buy it!!!... :lol:

Nice one though for the info!


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