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Post subject: Re: Real Fender Strat USA from 2001 or fake ...
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 3:26 am
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Having done the "quote" trick and following the links to the images it looks like a classic Chender, even down to the Noiseless text on the PUP covers.

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Post subject: Re: Real Fender Strat USA from 2001 or fake ...
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:55 pm
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I'm going to be the voice of dissent here.
It's authentic.


An authentic Partscaster :D
There is more wrong with that one than there is right.
Chenders are better than this example.... at least some Chenders are hard to tell from the MIM models.

Those tuners were never used by Fender.
The stamp on the back of the headstock has never been used on production Fender... Custom shop "V", yes.
The rear trem cavity cover... the two holes in the middle should be offset from each other, and are offset in a way that the cover can be installed rotated 180.
6-hole trem cavity cover is correct for vintage designs, but they went to a single slot in the 80s or 90s.
The body radius looks more like an Ibanez JEM.
The "Fender Corona California" Strat neck plates are all 5-hole for the micro-tilt. 4-hole "Fender Corona California" are bass neck plates. 4-hole MIA Strat plates as found on the American Special/Highway-One are blank, as are the Asian models. MIM may be either blank or simply have the "Fender" script.

I'm thinking POSSIBLY an Indonesian Squier neck. The neck plate is authentic Fender, just not from a Strat. Best case, that's as close to anything "Fender" I see in those pictures.

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Post subject: Re: Real Fender Strat USA from 2001 or fake ...
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:51 am
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CB91710 wrote:
I'm thinking POSSIBLY an Indonesian Squier neck. The neck plate is authentic Fender, just not from a Strat. Best case, that's as close to anything "Fender" I see in those pictures.



I would argue that's not even a Squier neck--there's no black plastic around the truss rod hole, which would be consistent with a Squier with a vintage tint/poly coating. Squier necks without the plastic usually are unfinished.


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