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    Can any of you Fender guy's tell me if that logo looks legit. I'm not familiar with fenders that much and I know the logo doesn't resemble my 2013. Thanks for any help.Click image for larger version

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    Re: Real/Fake fender?

    I'll let the experts chime in, but I'm not buying it...

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    • #3
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      Imho it's the headstock shape that's flagging, hard
      "New stuff always sucks" -Me

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      • #4
        Re: Real/Fake fender?

        Originally posted by masta' c View Post
        I'll let the experts chime in, but I'm not buying it...
        Yeah something just doesn't look right to me. A woman has it for sale on Facebook for only $250. Advertised as an American Strat.Click image for larger version

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        • #5
          Re: Real/Fake fender?

          Pay her in Zimbabwean "zollars"
          "New stuff always sucks" -Me

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          • #6
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            Multiple things are not correct with that guitar. Walk away.
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            • #7
              Re: Real/Fake fender?

              Lol . . . look at the round bit at the end of the headstock. It's not even close!
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              • #8
                Re: Real/Fake fender?

                Ha! That’s funny!!!

                I mean it probably was MIA?

                Cuz it looks like it was slapped together in some 15 year old kids mom’s basement in Michigan...
                I live in Northern New Hampshire, we shoot the things we don't understand here???

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                • #9
                  Re: Real/Fake fender?

                  The headstock shape is wrong, the string tree is wrong, the bridge has the wrong number of posts, the wood for the headstock looks like it was from a high school shop class, the pickguard is single ply, the knobs aren't aged the same, "MADE IN U.S.A" is crooked, the finish is too thick and plasticky looking, It only has 21 frets, the metal on the output jack is all weird, "WITH SYNCHRONIZED TREMOLO" is not on American Standard Strats, "STRATOCASTER" is written in too bold and slightly too tall a font, those patent numbers don't belong there, and the Fender logo is drawn on with crappy sharpie (also the "n" and "d" aren't supposed to touch, likewise with the "d" and "e". Go look at a Fender logo, there are a hundred other minor details wrong on this example that I don't have the space to go over).

                  I'd say steer clear.
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                  • #10
                    Re: Real/Fake fender?

                    OMG...that headstock!

                    Yeah, that's a no-brainer not even close to the real deal. You could have done your own research on this one!

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                    • #11
                      Re: Real/Fake fender?

                      Chinese Strat copy that someone put a 70s style decal on.


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                      • #12
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                        Yeah I think I'll stay clear of it. The woman claims it's a 1976

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                        • #13
                          Re: Real/Fake fender?

                          Offer her 150
                          It looks mint

                          Love the color

                          It may not be real but it sure is purdy

                          But it probably cost 150 or less from China

                          Get it
                          Sand the logo off

                          Play that thing
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                          • #14
                            Re: Real/Fake fender?

                            Originally posted by ehdwuld View Post
                            Offer her 150
                            It looks mint

                            Love the color

                            It may not be real but it sure is purdy

                            But it probably cost 150 or less from China

                            Get it
                            Sand the logo off

                            Play that thing

                            That ridiculous headstock is a huge warning flag for me. It's so obviously a half-assed fake that I can't imagine the rest of the guitar was put together properly. Save your 150$ and buy a Squire. I'd be shocked if the Squire isn't a significantly better guitar than this crappy knock-off.
                            Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!

                            Originally posted by Douglas Adams
                            This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Real/Fake fender?

                              This is going to sound sexist -but it's not intended to be.

                              Without even looking at the pic, the statement a woman on facebook listing an American Strat for 250 is a gigantic red flag. First, A 1976 American Standard Strat is worth 1500 on a bad day, and 3 to 4k on the right one. -Anyone can find this out in seconds.

                              Second, Often scammers/criminals use the guise of being a person in a position of "perceived ignorance" as a seller in order to create the sense of a person selling something very unpriced (because the value is unrecognized by the ignorant seller) AND to make the buyer come to terms with the risk of purchasing from an "uninformed seller" AKA -a woman. This takes some of your good sense and suspicion of a likely criminal enterprise possibility out of the equation -as "she's just a woman who probably doesn't know better" -They are basically using your sexist perceptions and cognitive bias to trick you into taking a risk on a guitar.

                              This person is likely nothing more than a hardened criminal -and probably does this all the time all over the damn place.
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