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12-01-2010, 06:26 PM
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I have seen a couple of Fender Custom Shop relic jazz bass bodies for sale on a popular auction site. I know they could be from a parted out bass, but they don't look to have had necks on them. I didn't think the custom shop sold bodies like that. Any thoughts or info would be greatly appreciated...how to authenticate, anything like that.
thanks
shawn
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12-01-2010, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by DeliriumTremens  | That one's never had a bridge or electronics, let alone a neck. Me suspicious.
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12-01-2010, 07:22 PM
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12-01-2010, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by JimB52 That one's never had a bridge or electronics, let alone a neck. Me suspicious. | Ah yeah good point. I didn't even think about that |
12-01-2010, 08:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Jersey Shore Exit 74 | | | Plus I would hope the custom shop would do a better "relic" job than whats on that body |
12-01-2010, 08:50 PM
| | | | to be honest, sight unseen, and with as much experience as you - its probably a fake. There is certainly a possibility its a genuine one, however, I don't think that the custom shop would just auction off a body like that. I'm not quite sure some guy would be dumb enough to buy a bass from the custom shop and then just buy a different body and auction it off on ebay. This is just my opinion, but I don't believe that most of the fender stuff being sold via ebay is genuine. |
12-02-2010, 03:00 AM
|  | Sponsored by Jagermeister | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Seattle / Tacoma | | | The red flag for me is, my Custom Shop NOS body as well as others I have seen (NOS and Relics) with the neck and pickguard off, have "RELIC" in big letters stamped into the wood. I'm talking metal die stamped, not ink stamped. |
12-02-2010, 03:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: London and Bangkok | | | I don't know how normal usage could produce that wear pattern on the top bout. Looks like a very amateurish relicing job to me. |
12-02-2010, 03:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Caca de Kick The red flag for me is, my Custom Shop NOS body as well as others I have seen (NOS and Relics) with the neck and pickguard off, have "RELIC" in big letters stamped into the wood. I'm talking metal die stamped, not ink stamped. | Mine too....can't miss it.... |
12-02-2010, 06:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South of Boston | | | Yeah, I'll have to pass. I wanted to like it so I was overlooking the sort of bad looking relic job. Thanks everybody!
shawn
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12-05-2010, 09:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | You have to be very careful. I saw what was supposed to be a Custome Shop '64 Precision Bass neck on ebay offered by a place that's on there all the time. It even had the Custom Shop logo decal on the back of the headstock. The problem was the Fender decal on the front of the headstock was mid 70's style, not '64.
A day or two later it was pulled as "no longer available." Shortly after that, I saw those decals, including the Custom Shop logo, for sale here in the TB classifieds. Buyer beware.
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12-05-2010, 09:59 AM
| | | | I think this, or at least some other thread with links to info on weeding the real parts from the fakes should be a sticky in the luthier's corner section. It would just be a really good idea to have that info around. |
12-05-2010, 10:12 AM
|  | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NY & MA | | | I just sent the seller inquiring about the lack of prior installation of bridge.... see if he responds and what he says. |
12-05-2010, 10:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Michigan, Suburban Detroit | | | As Caca de Kick and joinercape incidated, there is the RELIC coined stamp missing on the neck or pickup pockets, I own two CS and both has that, even though one of them is a NOS (no relic).
Perhaps a customer can buy seconds from the Custom Shop?
There are some bad nicks on the upper edge shown in the last picture (I think this is what bobm2112 is referring to).
If this is true, then it would make sense this type of sale.
However, I would think the Custom Shop recycle this type of defects into a heavy relic instrument before selling them as seconds.
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12-05-2010, 10:49 AM
| | | | That forearm rub looks pretty amateurish. |
12-05-2010, 11:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | I doubt the Custom Shop sells seconds. Even if they did, I don't think they would put their logo on it. They stamp "Relic" on the NOS's also to show they are not real vintage instruments. If you click on this guy's "other items," you'll see he is also selling a 3TB CS body.
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12-05-2010, 02:15 PM
| | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NY & MA | | | Well, I asked the seller a question which went...
are these authentic Fender Custom Shop bodies from THE Fender Custom Shop?
And the reply I got was....
"yes it is."
There you have it.... |
12-05-2010, 02:52 PM
|  | Superfast 2.0 | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Antonio, TX | | | I remember when Fender would sell replacement bodies and even then they had the ground wire, strap lock, and pickguard holes drilled. I'd imagine the CS would at the very least include the ground wire hole.
Fake body is fake. |
12-05-2010, 05:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | | 4.25 pounds for a Fender Jazz body? I don't think so.
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