Fender Customshop??? Purple Sparkle!

[John Walker]

Hi guys,

I need your help with this. I bought this bass and it has some mysterious stamps and marks in the neck pocket and neck. The color of the body is purple sparkle/metallic. The pickups and pots are crappy. Schaller tuners and bridge (no 5-holes under schaller bridge..). Could be a body order. Matching headstock with Fender logo and customshop decal. Neck does have a truss rod. I guess its a fat D-shaped neck. The fretless fingerboard is really beautiful! Back of neck is shaved. Brass top. Alder body! Heavy bass.

Very interesting bass. If you look at the neck pocket and neck stamps, you can see the early red customshop stamp with the date 11-92. Also a 1-33 mark on the neck. The body has the seventies 3-bolt neck plate. Are these marks and stamps fake or not?

Thanks!!

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[The Chuck]

I'm no expert but I don't like the look of that decal. I'm looking forward to seeing myself.

 

[Doctor J]

The back of the headstock where it morphs into the neck screams fake for me. Fender usually sculpt that nicely, the Custom Shop would never leave that ugly heel there.

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[John Walker]

The stamp looks like this stamp. I can see the letters 'Fender USA' in the stamp in my bass. In this picture you see two stamps. The second, more blurred, looks like the one I have.

 

[Gorn]

Is that a custom shop sticker?
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This all looks very wrong. Would you mind sharing how much you paid for it?

 

[John Walker]

It doesn't matter how much I paid for. I only need to know whether it has some customshop parts or not. If not, why the customshop stamp? Looks real to me, though.

 

[wraub]

Headstock shape is wrong, neck volute is wrong, Schaller tuners cut down to fit the HS, decal is wrong, fingerboard looks poorly done. 4 bolt neck converted to 3 bolt. Body may not be, but neck is not Fender.
Cool color though.

Hope you didn't pay too much, and can get it back.

 

[John Walker]

Any information about the marks and stamps? Anybody?

 

[wraub]

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[John Walker]

I know Fender customshop uses schallers tuners on their guitars, like this one. It also has no truss-rod coming out of the truss-rod hole, like the jazz bass. The Schaller tuners on my jazz bass are indeed cut down. Also the headstock is been reshaped. It is possible the previous owner(s) did some reshape work.

 

[Doctor J]

The red stamp on your one looks like it was drawn by hand in red marker. The shape isn't consistent and the USA you can make out is clearly done by hand. I hope you didn't spend much on it.

 

[wraub]

fender custom shop stamps - Google Search

 

[John Walker]

So customshop did never drawn these stamps by hand?

 

[Gorn]

So customshop did never drawn these stamps by hand?

An image drawn by hand is the opposite of a stamp.

 

[John Walker]

Just help me, ok?

 

[Doctor J]

No, they don't draw stamps by hand. Sorry to say, but my money would be on this not even being a Fender, never mind a Custom Shop. It looks like a parts bass which someone tried to make look like a FCS.

 

[morticia]

Looks seriously fake, I'm sorry to say.

 

[Gorn]

Just help me, ok?

Everything anyone has posted in this thread has been an attempt to help.

 

[Bajo Clarkko]

The shape of the headstock looks really off. Is it just me, or does tha body look kind of reddish? Perhaps it's made of Mahogany, thus explaining why it's so heavy? Just an observation.

 

[John Walker]

Interesting..