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Post subject: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:14 am
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Hi there,

Someone is selling a USA Fender Stratocaster RW Sienna model guitar (sunburst), and I was wondering whether any of you can confirm that it is real from the photo's?

Thanks.

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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:12 am
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Everything looks good as far as I can tell. Beautiful guitar, too.


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:16 am
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ExiledonMainSt wrote:
Everything looks good as far as I can tell. Beautiful guitar, too.


Agreed.

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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:23 pm
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Looks like one.


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:40 pm
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Everything looks correct to me.


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:57 pm
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nothing suspicious, get it!


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:44 pm
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Based on what I can see from the shots on my phone, looks legit. How does it play and sound? What is the asking price for said guitar? Is it worth the money to you to purchase?

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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:11 pm
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Looks like the real deal.


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:51 am
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Thanks for the responses.

Absolutely gutted! The guy was asking £300 for it, I contacted him within 10 minutes of the ad being up by phone and email, he got back to me and said it wasn't possible to deliver (can't currently drive), and then added that it is now sold to someone local.

Was an unwanted gift, obviously didn't realize what the RRP on that guitar was.


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:37 pm
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Looks real nice - someone has the bargain of the year.

$300 begs the question, unwanted gift or five finger discount?


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:34 pm
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As in everything else, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 300 pounds is around 475 US dollars if my math is right and that is about half what a new American Strat costs. You might have gotten the deal of the century or you might have gotten ripped off. Dont fret about it too much though!


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:25 pm
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I dunno, the grain doesn't look right to me and the two piece body seems to have been joined in the middle. Most of the ones I've seen the join is 1/3rd away from the cutaway side, but I could well be wrong.


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:07 pm
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Everything looks right but the body. The body looks like alder and not Ashe. My Sienna burst Strat is "two pieace center seam" ashe. I thought the Sienna burst came with an ashe body. My Sienna burst strat was made in 2011.


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Post subject: Re: Fender USA Stratocaster RW Sienna (Check if real or not)
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:10 am
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I'm suspicious about the "Original Contour Body" sticker on the headstock!

The sticker is too close to the tuner. I don't know if such a misplacement happens/ has happened to factory applied stickers but I have never seen a sticker misplaced like that.

Might(!) be a aftermarket third party sticker !?!?

I also would say that it's alder, not ash.

Center connected is done by Fender as well, that doesn't bother me.

Since it's sold to a local person anyway you might have been lucky.

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