This is a faker, I think?

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Re: This is a faker, I think?

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The one thing that stands out is the dark wood stripe in the body with the fretted dot neck. It's not a 4001S, It's not a 4003S. IIRC the only combination of through neck stripe and dot neck would be on a 4001FL.
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Re: This is a faker, I think?

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the wood looks very plyish .....very plywoodian.
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Re: This is a faker, I think?

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That's definitely a Rickenbacker tailpiece, as well as the bridge pickup surround. The fingerboard does look too dark, but it's hard to be sure from this slightly blurry picture.
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Re: This is a faker, I think?

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herk wrote:the wood looks very plyish .....very plywoodian.
It's not ply - you won't find any of the neck-through copies with plywood bodies.

I don't think the photo's good enough to be sure the tailpiece is genuine - from that angle, the square-ish holes of the real thing would be the only way to tell, and they're not clear enough in this image.

To me, the scratchplate looks wrong - the plastic's too opaque, and the tuners (visible from the back in one of the small images) have over-large backplates & the shafts look too long.

Just went back for another look - and the listing's been removed. So there's your definitive answer.

J.
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