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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:45 am
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For what its worth guitar dater gave this report,

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Your guitar was made at the
Corona Plant (Fender), USA
in the Year(s): 1989 - 1990



Fender: Corona
Corona factory was opened in 1985, Corona California, with major guitar production starting in 1987. With the addition of a custom shop in 1987 the plant currently employs about 700 workers. Apart from general and Custom Shop Fender instruments and amplifiers, it also encompasses Guild acoustic & electric guitars.



As i said previously serials are very easily found and copied.

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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:04 am
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I did not see the hole for the micro tilt adjustment that should be on most MIA models for that kind of money . If it was more in the $450 price range I would say go for it . Around here you can get a nice MIA for around $600


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Had a good look through google and cant find a obscure run of guitars for 89/90 from corona.

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nikininja wrote:
Ive seen quite a few fake decals, non that accurate. Anyone that could apply one that neatly after taking the MIM decal off would make more money refinishing guitars rather than faking them. Its a very accurate fake very neatly applied, if thats what it is. The way the decal faking process works anyone who's ever put their serial no' on a website can unwittingly have their number cloned onto a fake decal.



Niki I know for a fact I can get a decal that would exactly match that or any fender decal posted online. i know a source , i have seen them up close and personal, out of 10 of us who looked not one of us could tell which was the copy and which was the real, when only the headstocks were compared.

Now the person I know who made it will not sell them to the general public, he shares my views on forgeries, but he made this one as an academic exercise while making his own logo. The thing is it takes more equipment than a standard computer and printer ( i won't say how it was done, but anyone here with a bit of knowledge can guess, common enough process,) but its not like it takes some hard to obtain process, It's not a hologram or anything. In fact we figure you could copy any fender decal from any era for surprisingly cheap, especially if you made a batch of em.

Most fake decals are just plain waterslides you can make with a half decent printer and they can be pretty hard to tell, if done right, the reason they are spotted easily has to do with lack of care and attention, by the counterfeiter.

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nikininja wrote:
Had a good look through google and cant find a obscure run of guitars for 89/90 from corona.


+1 Great minds think alike.... :wink:

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Twelvebar wrote:
...The thing is it takes more equipment than a standard computer and printer ( i won't say how it was done, but anyone here with a bit of knowledge can guess, common enough process,) but its not like it takes some hard to obtain process...


Mr Twelvebar, on a related point, do you happen to know how the MIA Deluxe type logos are made? The shiny metal foil ones - is that a decal type application or something else? Are there over-the-counter ways of getting logos of that kind made up?

I'm sure you can guess that my curiosity has nothing to do with faking Fenders... :wink:

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It's pretty different from the normal logo. I don't have one, I think I need to go look at one up close. I am heading out for strings, and some strap locks, so I'll have a close up look. I would imagine it's a similar process, just using one of a variety of metallic inks.

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Twelvebar wrote:
It's pretty different from the normal logo. I don't have one, I think I need to go look at one up close. I am heading out for strings, and some strap locks, so I'll have a close up look. I would imagine it's a similar process, just using one of a variety of metallic inks.


I await your thoughts...

If there were one thing more stylish than designing our own logo decals (as discussed the other day) it would be doing nice shiny silver ones!

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Ironically the store I go to was sold out of deluxes (both Strat and tele,) so I couldn't check. They were out of HW1 strats, but had a single tele there.

The fender wall was kind of bare, the sales guy I talked to said they had a good weekend.

Anyway from pictures I would guess it is a silkscreen process, with a metallic ink. That is why there is some depth to it. i could be way off, as it is hard to see.

One option I wouldn't mind trying out to see if it works is to create a stencil of some sort, and then spray a metallic (non flaky,) paint and see if i could get that kind of effect.

Some time ago I was looking for a certain metallic product, and a company i talked to sent me a sample package. Not samples of the paint to use, but those sample cards that show the products. there must be around 200 of these samples that i think would all do the trick, in different colours, and different kinds of reflective properties.

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