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I don't have the skills to tell if fake or not anymore.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Came across one recently which looked spot on to me but it's been pointed out to me that the truss rod is slightly out of position at the end of the neck. Scarey tiny details that then lead on to bigger questions.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Now A. this guy had plenty of money,
B, he knew his guitars and was buying specific examples.
And last but no means C, he told me where he was buying it from, I looked on site and yes there was a 53 tele, just sold.
Anyway guitar finally came in and he brought it across in a shop full of customers with a friend of mine who was also a solicitor. He passed me guitar, and without really looking just by feel of neck I said I think this is a fake. Cue hush in the shop, he said why, and I wasn't entirely sure at first it was just a feel thing. Looked over the body, and I could see the pin routs on back. Bridge plate had a correct serial number. But to me it didn't feel like an old guitar. He then confessed that he did it himself and modelled it on Roy Buchanans Tele. he kept original reissue bridge plate but welded it up around serial number and restamped it. He stripped body, resprayed it in cellulose then swept his bloody gravel drive with it!!!
He then had the nerve to tell me it was a MIJ Esquire that I had used for about 6months and sold to a mate of his. He did an amazing job and it must have cost him a fortune, and he did it just to test me.
Point I am making is, I almost said yes nice guitar and left him to it thinking mug, more money than sense. But I thought honesty was best policy. and funnily enough after I closed my shop I worked for him for 7 years because of that incident.
How many of us have played a 'vintage' fender and thought fake but not said anything?
But if asked then I will have to be honest - or if I know it's going to be for sale.
True to an extent, but these are also big-money guitars now, so there is an incentive to make a fake that has less chance of being analysed in minute detail. Some parts of them - pickguards especially - are also much easier to fake.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
There are always a few doing the rounds.
Obv you can check the serial plate against the coa if it exists and then get the floor traveler spec from the custom shop.
I think we can get too hung up on whether you can be 100% sure about everything. I sort of agree with ATB Guitars, these guitars are, and will continue to be, sought out. They come from an era, have cultural and historical significance and are often great examples of what they are (electric guitars). CS are good too, but they’re reproductions. They’ll have there own fans over time but it’s a different market.
Its a bit sad to think of these instruments in these terms and they should definitely be played but I guess Queen Anne dining tables began life just being things to eat off and gathered around probably not expecting to end up in show rooms in Bond Street.