Real or Fake? Fender Custom Shop DLX Telecaster

Waiting to see what people say. That's a beautiful guitar there. I love the sparkly red.

 

Am Std style bridge, with a 21 fret neck, with a headstock truss rod access and that weird plastic truss rod hole surround? Logo on the back of the headstock looks wrong. And the decal on the front of the headstock is tickling my Spidey sense. I don’t like any of it. It all looks wrong to me.

That said, I don’t know everything, and haven’t seen everything. But I wouldn’t buy it.

 

I don't know much either so probably shouldn't comment.. but regarding the decal should it start further down the headstock, towards the nut? Wonder if that's what's set off your spidey sense..

EDIT - perhaps this is normal for the 'spaghetti' style logo.. see, I said I probably shouldn't have posted..!

 

Based on those pics - fakey mcfakeface.

Looks like a Squier.

Case is wrong for CS, too.

 

Save your money and fuel and keep looking.

 

Would anyone fake a CS Cert and guitar and then market it in Lithuania? Perhaps so, reckoning on it being a ‘safe’ market with no one to ask its authenticity.

Looks a nice guitar but not as advertised. What could it have started life as? Is / was there a MIM in that finish with those specs, or can it only be a knockoff?

 

Squier Bullet LE... $180 new...

 

Squier Bullet

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/gui...f90uGQK1qMoskuFiDbDy8jLljfB57LbRoCJ9IQAvD_BwE

 

That looks about right.

 

The seller would have had better luck selling it as what it was before the fake stuff was put on.
For reference
https://reverb.com/item/35287227-fe...9.Q_c-CcrR75A3r5JMuldtJwXhbqP9rr330_LQVCco4PM
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/gui...uper-custom-deluxe-telecaster-electric-guitar

 

There is no such thing as a 890 Euro Fender Custom Shop Telecaster. New or used. Maybe stolen, but no one would steal this guitar. Run away, run away!

 

Yeah, this is a Cortek Plastic truss rod hole insert - not any form of MIM.

This is why I hate to see FCS packages "exploded" for profit. Unscrupulous people buy the COA and case candy, install an American Series string tree, headstock decal and fakey neck plate and pawn the thing off in places where a player may not have ever seen the real thing. Don't assist people in their quest to go low!

 

it is kind of crazy to me how that shoddy of a headstock decal ("TELECASTER") can even make this a question. i mean, it's practically arial out of an inkjet printer. fender doesn't even do that cheap looking of a job on the squiers.

 

Was not, in anyway, dissing what I know to be a beautiful country or it’s people. I once worked with a couple of guys from there, genuinely decent people. They were here to improve life for their families back home by working hard and earning money. What I didn’t know was that there is a thriving music scene and guitar market. It now seems very likely that a fake CS would find its way there! Please accept my apologies if I offended in any way, it was borne of ignorance not intention!

PS, I’d steer clear of the sparkly Tele unless it’s a good example of a MIM at a MIM price!

 

NOBODY, I mean NOBODY sells a custom shop guitar that cheap. You don't need to know anything else about it.

He'd get more than that at a pawn shop.

 

Fake!

it’s a poorly done fake.

The bridge, the fretboard, the headstock, Custom Shop decal.

Run away.

BTW, it’s a FAKE!

 

I was born in New York State, and went to enough amazing public school there to have a fair idea about Lithuania. Upstate New York without those high taxes would be very cool - but then the students there wouldn't know a thing about Lithuania (this is what you would find in Arkansas).

Mountains would help a lot, but what Lithuania has that I couldn't handle, are extremely large, historically aggressive neighbors. I've taken a pounding down in New Orleans from all the storms in the last 20 years, so I have had a taste of Uncertainty. I think I've burnt out on Uncertainty.