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Well?

I would.

Definitely a trademark infringer with that body shape.

Definitely. After they've been hung for making a copy, they should be drawn & quartered for making it pink!

I didn't find it in the Fernandes USA website, but I did find it on the Japanese site.

http://www.fernandes.co.jp/products/burny_bass.html

Funny how they tried to make the logo on the headstock look like Gibson on the EB-3 copy
Click on PRB for the Rick copy.

If you look close at the headstock there is sort of a huge wave instead of a small wave. The body is a bit too close to the 4000 series. That probably why it's not on the USA website. Won't these companies ever learn?

Body shape...yes ....faker.......everything else no...to pinckwierdgibsonish.

"inspired by" would be more appropriate i think. a faker implies trying to fool one and a blind man could see this is not authentic.

lol ...is that a flying V TRC !!!! Fernandes could have come much closer a couple decades back.

herk wrote:"inspired by" would be more appropriate i think. a faker implies trying to fool one and a blind man could see this is not authentic.

True Scott, but it infringes on a RIC trademark body shape.

blazer wrote:
Well?

What else could be considered?

You will notice edits in this post. I have tried to preserve the content of the thread.

I wouldn't call it a faker and if I found one in all black I'd likely buy it...if it played well.

phlemmy wrote:I wouldn't call it a faker and if I found one in all black I'd likely buy it...if it played well.

Just to clarify something Sean. Are you saying it isn't a "Faker" because you feel there are enough differences between the two?