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Post subject: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 6:15 pm
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HI there

If anyone could help ID this guitar, sorry only have the pics below, any help or advice would be appreciated

https://imgur.com/RCxqp2g

https://imgur.com/oduiIGj

https://imgur.com/f9qKyCX

https://imgur.com/jZQcsP2

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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:32 pm
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Strange trussrodless neck. It is almost as if a rosewood board has been replaced with a maple board.

I also don't recognise the tuners. I'm thinking fake myself, but could be wrong.

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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:30 pm
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It could be a maple cap. I built a Partscaster in the 90s that had a maple capped neck without a skunk stripe or "teardrop".
It looks like someone tried to make a Malmsteen from the body color, scallops, and the middle pickup not matching, they forgot the brass nut, and those tuners have not, to my knowledge, ever been used by Fender.
The body may or may not be Fender, the neck is not.

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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:38 pm
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Could it be a Japanese '68 "reissue"? They did have a maple cap, no skunk stripe. Although, the heel of the neck looks a bit large. :?:

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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:16 pm
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No serial number visible. The trem cover middle screws placing in the back of the body. The shape of the neck in the backside where it morphs to the neck heel.

To put it mildly, I don't get a 'genuine Fender product' vibe from this guitar. Not MIA, MIJ or MIE(lsewhere).
But, that's just my opinion. :wink:

What is the seller claiming it is? Which pickups, what kind of wiring? What's the asking price?


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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:25 am
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jmattis wrote:
The trem cover middle screws placing in the back of the body. The shape of the neck in the backside where it morphs to the neck heel.

I didn't even notice that before.
The corners of the body at the end of the neck pocket are WAY too sharp/squared off.

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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:53 pm
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There's nothing about this guitar that can make me think it's original. The neck is a copy of a '68 strat.
I don't know the Indonesian or Koren productions, but surely this is not an American or japanese strat.


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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:32 pm
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No way that’s a genuine Fender


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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:15 am
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It is definateley not a '68 reissue , the headstock shape is wrong ...it's like a cross between a normal small headstock and a large CBS one
I may be wrong but the only smallish headstocks with the transitional logo were the early Dan smith strats (where the headstock shape was way off anything before )

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Post subject: Re: Please help identify this strat
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:38 pm
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That looks like a legit Frankenfakecaster to me.


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