Reverb Rubbish....

Strat54

Some ebay ads leave me lost for words, dealer should know better. That neck and decal omg....

https://reverb.com/item/81990792-fender-double-bound-telecaster-esquire-electric-guitar-in-3-tone-sunburst-made-in-japan-vintage-spec?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=81990792

BobHillman

It says that all hardware is "vintage spec'd Fender", but I don't recall ever seeing a Fender bridge with compensated saddles.

Strat54

Fake serial on bridge and neck plate too. Neck not a fender, decal fake....even the 'Japan' on the neck is fake. Long since given up reporting to Reverb because they really don't know what is correct and what is not. 

strtdv

To be fair the description makes it pretty clear it's a partscaster. 
The neck could well be genuine, there were some MIJ Esquires around '85. 
I'd view the compensated saddles as a plus. 
I wouldn't pay £1k for it though, more like half that

John_P

I have a mid 80’s mij esquire.  The neck is nothing like that and certainty not a v profile. 

chrisj1602

At first I thought it might be a Squier Esquire but they look better.

Strat54

strtdv said:

To be fair the description makes it pretty clear it's a partscaster. 
The neck could well be genuine, there were some MIJ Esquires around '85. 
I'd view the compensated saddles as a plus. 
I wouldn't pay £1k for it though, more like half that

Don't be daft, its pretty worrying you think that neck is a MIJ from the 80's. Thanks for proving my point.
Look and learn guys...

https://www.alston-family.co.uk/MIJ%20Tels/tes.php

PAL

One to avoid !

OilCityPickups

Its Gobsmacking how much moody crap is on Reverb these days ... it's rivalling eBay

guitarjack66

chrisj1602 said:

At first I thought it might be a Squier Esquire but they look better.

'I tried to acquire a Squier Esquire from a Squire' would be a hell of a tongue twister

Offset

guitarjack66 said:

chrisj1602 said:

At first I thought it might be a Squier Esquire but they look better.

'I tried to acquire a Squier Esquire from a Squire' would be a hell of a tongue twister

Shouldn't that be "I tried to acquier a Squier Esquier"? 

euan

As far as I was aware Fender Japan necks in the mid 80s were all heal adjustment for the truss rod and the fret wire is too wide too. 

OilCityPickups

euan said:

As far as I was aware Fender Japan necks in the mid 80s were all heal adjustment for the truss rod and the fret wire is too wide too. 

as far as I know ... yep ... and that looks a lot like my 90s Squire Tele neck.

euan

OilCityPickups said:

euan said:

As far as I was aware Fender Japan necks in the mid 80s were all heal adjustment for the truss rod and the fret wire is too wide too. 

as far as I know ... yep ... and that looks a lot like my 90s Squire Tele neck.

I asked for a picture of the neck heel…he gave me a serial number that matched the one of the bridge. Necks of that vintage don’t have a serial number on them, just a date.

CavemanGrogg

Fluff has an an entire series dedicated to crap you can find on Reverb, like Les Pauls that have been routed out completely so that there is no maple cap left, just a huge swimming pool, which is then covered by a plastic usually single ply scratch plate.

Kittyfrisk

^  Don't knock the pool rout(e)  

Strat54

euan said:

OilCityPickups said:

euan said:

As far as I was aware Fender Japan necks in the mid 80s were all heal adjustment for the truss rod and the fret wire is too wide too. 

as far as I know ... yep ... and that looks a lot like my 90s Squire Tele neck.

I asked for a picture of the neck heel…he gave me a serial number that matched the one of the bridge. Necks of that vintage don’t have a serial number on them, just a date.

Serial on bridge is fake too. 

ICBM

Slot head neck, bridge and pickup height screws. Wrong for any variant of what this is purporting to be, but could have come from a '52RI Tele.

I would be very interested to see if it has a neck pickup rout... Japanese Esquires do - I had one, which I fitted a stealth neck pickup to - but the Squier Custom Esquire a friend just bought does not, and just about everything about this one apart from the decals and the replacement bridge looks very like it.

hollywoodrox

Bloody hell, someone like me would have been totally conned I don’t know much about fake fenders