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Post subject: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:57 pm
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Hi everybody,

I just bought this guitar and have a lot of doubts. Overall it is nicely made guitar, but 30th anniversary custom shop logo looking very strange here. Here is all the pics:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Will appreciate any comments on this


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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 12:39 am
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Unfortunately your suspicions are correct. This is obviously not a Custom Shop guitar and is a Partscaster with pieces from all over the place, some of which might have been on a Fender once.

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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 1:22 am
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John Sims wrote:
Unfortunately your suspicions are correct. This is obviously not a Custom Shop guitar and is a Partscaster with pieces from all over the place, some of which might have been on a Fender once.


+1

If you paid less than $150 for it, consider yourself fortunate.

If more, then you got *seriously* sodomized.

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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 2:15 am
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Agreed definitely not Custom Shop.
Looks like some parts are Japan...


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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 4:59 am
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Retroverbial wrote:
John Sims wrote:
Unfortunately your suspicions are correct. This is obviously not a Custom Shop guitar and is a Partscaster with pieces from all over the place, some of which might have been on a Fender once.


+1

If you paid less than $150 for it, consider yourself fortunate.

If more, then you got *seriously* sodomized.

:lol:
Arjay


Thanks. I paid exactly 150$ for it. While i waited for topic to be approved here i got a reply from fender customer support, that neck looks real fender (except custom shop sign) But body is third party, because “ it looks to be at least a four piece mahogany or nato body and the middle two screw holes for the backplate are not offset. Fender always offsets these two screws.”


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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 11:58 am
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If it is a neck from a mid-nineties Japanese Strat (as the MIJ and serial number suggest), you should find a model number (like ST-362 or ST-460) stamped in the neck heel.
In spite of the answer from Fender, I have my doubts; e.g. the font in the ORIGINAL (Contour Body) somehow looks to be nearly right but not quite.

The body, obviously not from Fender. I think the same about the trem (again, an odd font on the FENDER FENDER, and the ground wire/solder on the claw is clearly non-FMIC). But with an autopsy, you could also find out more about the electronics.


BTW, I'm not trying to degrade the guitar. All in all, in my 'hood 150 would absolutely not be too much for that kind of guitar if it plays well & sounds good.
And I'm sure you didn't expect a real CS instrument for that price. :wink:


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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 1:17 pm
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The neck could be from a Squier Bullet - there have been variants with Kluson style Tuners.
All the rest of the neck details fall into place, the skunk stripe, the too narrow 12th fret markers.
Oddly enough the bridge on the OP's guitar is a dead spit for the one used on the Bullet.

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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:07 am
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Here what's inside (please, remove children from the screens)
Will appreciate any comments about electronics

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12MuaN ... llZWII4ojF


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Post subject: Re: Please help me identify guitar
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:36 am
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Pretty typical Asian electronics. The plastic bobbins on the single coils do not match those used on US or MiM Fender products. No clue what the humbucker is, but likewise, it's not Fender.
The shielding is absolutely not factory.
The neck might be a legit Fender Japanese neck... I would be surprised if someone would fake the rest of the decals, including the Fender-Corona neck plate, and also fake a MiJ sticker next to it.

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