Fake?

[ChickWithaRic]

Educate us on what to look out for on a fake

Truss rod access, truss rod wrench size, body thickness, decal typefaces, serial number, neckplate, neck pocket and neck heel markings, pot sizes, mismatches between body and neck (for example a bound neck on a "pre CBS", wrong), pick up spacings on a J... too much to list.

If it rings your alarm bell, deep dive and ask everybody you can possibly ask. Some fakes are sold in good faith by owners who believe it's genuine. Some, are just theft attempts.

 

[PJ Muzikmansky]

Neck Material: Bamboo

Actually, bamboo is exceptionally strong. Laminated, it would probably make quite a good bass neck

 

[Watchootognbout]

Actually, bamboo is exceptionally strong. Laminated, it would probably make quite a good bass neck

Yes it does.

 

[JimB52]

Assembled in the USA entirely from non-Fender parts not from the USA.

 

[ChickWithaRic]

Actually, bamboo is exceptionally strong. Laminated, it would probably make quite a good bass neck

And when it breaks, 15 minutes with a block plane and you can eat noodles with it.

 

[ChickWithaRic]

Assembled in the USA entirely from non-Fender parts not from the USA.

So you're saying it's a MIA Fender?

 

[Watchootognbout]

And when it breaks, 15 minutes with a block plane and you can eat noodles with it.

I'll make noodles for the both of us when this breaks.
My NS/Stick with a Bamboo laminate neck.

 

[ChickWithaRic]

I'll make noodles for the both of us when this breaks.
My NS/Stick with a Bamboo laminate neck.
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Give me 30 minutes in a room without windows and that thing and I will make you the noodles of your choice.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Give me 30 minutes in a room without windows and that thing and I will make you the noodles of your choice.

Stick Enterprises - Home of the Chapman Stick
Stick Enterprises doesn't use inferior materials.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Actually, bamboo is exceptionally strong. Laminated, it would probably make quite a good bass neck

Winter Build-Off 2022: Bamboo EUB

 

[Watchootognbout]

We now return to our scheduled program on Fake Fenders.

 

[J_Bass]

We now return to our scheduled program on Fake Fenders.
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Not yet.

Bamboo bike, super strong:

 

[SixtyCycleHum]

Showing as ENDED now...

"Ended"

This is what the headstock will say in a year when the knock off decal wears off.

 

[Sixgunn]

One of the rare miracles of agreement across the board.

No it isn't!

 

[devnulljp]

I'll make noodles for the both of us when this breaks.
My NS/Stick with a Bamboo laminate neck.
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I should have bought one of those instead of a regular stick. Having such a hard time wrapping my head round playing it.

 

[Christofferson]

Nothing on that bass looks right. Not even the strap.

The strap IS the part made in the USA.

 

[sxaxsx]

Yep it's a fake.
Headstock shape is wrong
Body shape especially the bottom horn is wrong
Bridge is a 7 screw bridge
Pickguard is only 8 screws and poorly cut
A MIA Fender Jazz would have had the truss rod adjust at the heel not the head stock
String tree is unlike any I ever saw on a Fender
The finish on this bass looks like what you would get on Japanese basses from the 60's not a 2007 MIA Fender
The neck heel protrudes awfully far from the pocket, fairly certain that neck didn't originate on that body