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Post subject: Re: My guitar is false or true?
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:43 am
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orvilleowner wrote:
You are referring to these USA Squiers?


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They weren't made in 1991, AFAIK.


I think that is the same model - it was just branded that way in 1989-1990, then branded just Fender and only sold for export in 1991. I thought that these 1991 export-only models were supposed to have "FN1xxxxx" serial numbers.


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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:24 am
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I'd expect the headstock to be like this

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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:55 am
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fedemas wrote:
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Did anyone mention the positioning of the screw holes for the trem cover? Just looking at those makes me think this isn't even a Fender (or Squier) body at all. I'd be inclined to think the whole guitar is a fake.

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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:50 am
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My thoughts exactly, total fake.


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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:12 am
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The USA Squiers I've seen, that actually had their wooden parts made in the USA, had truss rods at the heel of the neck. They had rosewood or maple fingerboards and no truss rod plug at the headstock (like '60s Strats).

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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:24 pm
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https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=fend ... 20&bih=372

check this out, apparently in latin america my fender is not the only one that looks like this, pay attention to all have the same year of manufacture and look the same, so I would like to explain some staff fender me this, I saw several guitars fender internet Similar to the published mia. I do not think that all are false and do the same way, in the same year, and have forged all over latin america


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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:27 pm
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https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=fend ... B625%3B937

see the following photos


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Post subject: Re: My guitar is false or true?
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:29 pm
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http://m.olx.com.co/item/show/277463760


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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:17 pm
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If it's absolution you seek, I doubt that you'll find it here.

You've got a hundred-dollar Squier. Period.

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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:59 pm
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Maybe time Mr. Rob Schwartz chipped in with the info that can be found based on that serial number...


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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 4:17 pm
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fedemas wrote:
http://m.olx.com.co/item/show/277463760


So we have a different serial number to play with.
What gives?

The headstock shape is not the same either.
And that's with the very poor resolution photos 2nd time around.

How many fake USA Strats have you got there?

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 6:29 pm
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Stratmangler2 wrote:
fedemas wrote:
http://m.olx.com.co/item/show/277463760


So we have a different serial number to play with.
What gives?

The headstock shape is not the same either.
And that's with the very poor resolution photos 2nd time around.

How many fake USA Strats have you got there?


All of them.

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 6:46 pm
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There are false, they are throw in the factory fender. apparently there are a lot of guitars with the same traits similar to mine in Latin America. I saw hundreds of them on the internet apparently what they say is true in Argentina. Apparently the company fender is not as strict about this, I now understand the period spoken of where the "quantity" overlapped by the "quality"

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:33 pm
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That was a crazy period for Squier, 1989-early 1990's. Production was all over the globe.

There was the "Squier by Fender," made in USA, 1989-1990. These were supposedly painted in Mexico.

After that series of guitars, when production was started in Mexico, the bodies and necks were still made in the USA! The bodies were stamped "SQUIER" as yours is. (Your neck has a 1992 date; March or May.) The parts were painted and assembled in Mexico with "Squier" logos and "Made in Mexico" decals.

John C says that some of these Mexican Squiers had "Fender" logos and were exported (outside of North America, I guess). Maybe the fact that bodies and necks were routed in USA could allow them to be sold with that logo. I couldn't find confirmation of this.

It is hard to get definitive information; the web is full of misinformation (like a fire in the Mexican factory or the Asian factory, one or the other!).

The "SQUIER" stamp makes me think that your body and neck could have been cut out and routed in USA (but not painted or assembled).

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Post subject: Re: My guitar is false or true?
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:18 pm
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fedemas wrote:
stratele52 wrote:
It is not an American made Fender , Easy to see that all electronics is cheap Squier or import.

Your luthier did not look at electronic to say it is an American made Fender.




clear my Luthier said that the electronics and the bridge are in Squier by Fender 91-93 years stratocasters Use sent to these parts to cut costs, leaving more economical in Argentina.

What I need to know is if the body (wood) guitar is Fender or Squier.

I think the neck would have no doubt that Fender is made ​​in usa.


The parts that matter...the pickups and wiring you don't care about?
The wood doesn't matter one iota.


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