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02-06-2011, 12:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: U.K. | | | Fake or Real????????????
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What do people think, fake or real? I'm just not sure about the body and never seen a Fender like it?  http://www.bargain-hunt.org.uk/Fende...nder-bass.html
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02-06-2011, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | My vote is fake. I don't remember Fender putting serial numbers on that part of the headstock. Maybe it is a 90-something replacement neck? From the dent at heel, I think that is possible.
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02-06-2011, 12:13 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | IMO, it Fake.
i can read the 'made in XXX' by the serial number, but since the 'XXX' is so short, i'm assuming it says 'made in USA' and i've NEVER seen that type of imported tuning keys used on a USA fender bass. |
02-06-2011, 12:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Georgia | | | Even if it is a fake, it's pretty good looking.
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02-06-2011, 12:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: U.K. | | | yeah I think its still a good looking bass! |
02-06-2011, 12:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Dallas Tx | | | Looks fake to me. Looks really nice, but probably fake.
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02-06-2011, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Round Lake Heights, IL USA | | | FAKE
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02-06-2011, 12:49 PM
|  | www.brandonmichael.info | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Northern California | | | That neck joint is awful |
02-06-2011, 12:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Durham, NC | | | Fake. What is up with the letter spacing on "Precision?"
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02-06-2011, 01:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Lafayette, La | | | Its fake. Go to a website called tradetang.com and you will find the same bass as well as lakland warwick prs guitars and many others. Some of them do look legit and very nice but they are all fake, chinese made. |
02-06-2011, 01:23 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | besides the tuning keys, it also has incorrect strap buttons and a non fender string retainer. the headstock's shape also looks a bit off but the photo is take at such a wide angle (probably on purpose) that it is harder to see it. |
02-06-2011, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: SLC, UT | | | "Contour Body" logo on a P? ...not on a real one. |
02-06-2011, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: U.K. | | | Thanks a lot for everyone's input! |
02-06-2011, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Dallas Tx | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ModulusQ5-122  Its fake. Go to a website called tradetang.com and you will find the same bass as well as lakland warwick prs guitars and many others. Some of them do look legit and very nice but they are all fake, chinese made. | Ever dealt with them or heard of anyone who has gotten one of the fakes? They're pretty obviously fake, but those feauxbackers look pretty cool for the money.
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02-06-2011, 02:24 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz Benz | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Formerly chicago_mike | | | Beyond fake. The color of the body and the neck are incorrect as well. That color is close to a late 70's Fender color but not exact.
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02-06-2011, 03:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Burlington, Vt. | | | Hell, I'm not even sure that's ash, looks like the stuff of K-Mart furniture. ...not that it's necessarily a bad instrument material, just not something that I think Fender ever used for bodies. Fake, to be sure.
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02-06-2011, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | | Fakity fake fake
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02-06-2011, 03:52 PM
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Not your average GC manager. | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Chicago, IL | | | N012435 serial checks out to be made in Corona, CA in 1990-1991
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02-06-2011, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Central Minnesota | | | I might just be used to my vintage fret wire, but the frets look HUGE on this guy ... the finish looks exactly like a cherry Gib/Epi EBO/3 ... I agree that the wood characteristics are not ash like ... JMHO
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02-06-2011, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Long Island, NY | | | Looks fake to me. The tuners look similar to the ones on my SX as well as the nuclear orange neck tint.
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