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mloker17
Post subject: Odd japan s/n, is it a fake fender? *Pic's uploaded now*
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i just bought a japanese fender stratocaster, and on the back it says "made by japan" and the S/N is 91911, no letters
i have searched through many online s/n guides and no luck, thay all have a letter prefix. thanks, mike.


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Welcome to the Board Mike......from what you mentioned, yeah its pretty weird especially without the prefix.You have any pics of your guitar?Put it here for the members to scrutinize and help you with it....

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You cant always tell by the serial no' with Japanese instruments. They used loads of different methods. Some of which im sure were devised by some derranged lovecraft'esque criminaly insane person. A friend of mine had a similar problem fender customer services sorted it out.

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wouldn't it read "made in Japan"? post some pics so the world can see.
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It should say Made in Japan or Crafted in Japan or nothin at all. I have never seen Made by Japan.
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That looks fake to me.

Those tuners look like those used on many early '70s Strat copies.
It could be made in Japan, but not officially by Fender.

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The headstock shape is wrong it looks halfway between a 50's strat and a tele.

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its not a real fender

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how much did you pay for it? I hope not a lot!!
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Synkronized wrote:
how much did you pay for it? I hope not a lot!!



$60.00 on craigslist,
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like the guys say, lotta stuff that looks wrong.
another is the text for 'stratocaster' on the decal seems broken up. Not at all like a real deal. Infact that whole decal looks off to me.

$60.00 should have let you know it wasn't real.

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Yeah the body finish looks like it been paint over or something like that.As the others have mentioned its definitely a fake imo......sorry you got duped mate.
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Dunno what this proves, but I have exactly those same tuners on an '80s Squier neck. And it also has that same screen printed logo, rather than a decal - though mine says Squier, of course.

Mine is similar, not quite the same, in the shape of the headstock, though mine also has trussrod adjustment at the nut, not the heel. And I certainly don't have a stripy nut like that!

I just wouldn't be quite so fast to right it off as a total fake. A lot of odd combinations came out of that Fujigen factory in the '80s, and you sometimes get the feeling Fender didn't always have a completely tight grip on the reins all the time.

Though "Made by. JAPAN" is certainly novel. Maybe this was the Fujigen nightshift doing a little work on their own behalf...

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Ceri wrote:
Though "Made by. JAPAN" is certainly novel. Maybe this was the Fujigen nightshift doing a little work on their own behalf ...Cheers


Possibly Fujigen? Those good folks'd be embarrassed by that piece of work, IMO.

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