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Hi all,

I have a possibility of buying a Fender Jazz neck. Here are some photos:

[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_1"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_1[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...6/63/1650966310[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_4"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_4[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_5"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_5[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_6"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_6[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_7"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_7[/url]

What do you think about it? Is it a fake? And would it be usable?

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Only my opinion... The binding looks too thick when looked at from the top, the dirt on the head stock appears to go around the Fender logo, and the yellow paint doesn't fill me with confidence either.

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In the third (dodgy out of focus) pic, the binding looks to me to be painted on... quite badly. Also the dirt and grime seems to have acumulated while there were no strings on. :)

P.S. I'm not a Fender expert.

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[quote name='neverdil' post='1258169' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:48 AM']Yeah, i thought so too. Thanks![/quote]
Couldn't you just have mindmelded with the seller and avoided getting your hopes up? :)

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[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1258173' date='Jun 6 2011, 11:51 AM']Couldn't you just have mindmelded with the seller and avoided getting your hopes up? :)[/quote]
Haha, should have :)

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Looks nothing like a Fender neck to my eyes. But you need to upload a pic of the neck end where it joins the body, there should probably be a date stamp on there.

The headstock is not a Fender shape, it's is clearly wrong, looks like a Jap copy. The binding is too thick on the fretboard. The machines plates screw holes are for small plates, not full sized Fenders. The neck carve is not like any Fender I've seen, either at the heel or the headstock end. It all looks wrong to me, and it's a real mess, I wouldn't touch it for more than a fiver :)

EDIT: I would hazard a guess it's 1980s Jap Crap.

Edited by silddx
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[quote name='neverdil' post='1258159' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:43 AM']Hi all,

I have a possibility of buying a Fender Jazz neck. Here are some photos:

What do you think about it? Is it a fake? And would it be usable?[/quote]

If the seller is trying to pass it off as genuine Fender, please name and shame

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[quote name='neverdil' post='1258159' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:43 AM']Hi all,

I have a possibility of buying a Fender Jazz neck. Here are some photos:

[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_1"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_1[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...6/63/1650966310[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_4"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_4[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_5"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_5[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_6"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_6[/url]
[url="http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal/16/50/96/63/1650966310_7"]http://img11.allegroimg.pl/photos/oryginal...63/1650966310_7[/url]

What do you think about it? Is it a fake? And would it be usable?[/quote]

Definitely a fake, no question at all.

Binding to thick, and not the same at the heel as a real fender, truss rod adjustment access at headstock, not heel. Looks horrible, if its for a self build project, and you can get it for under £30, then fine, if its being sold as a '71 to '76 then avoid like the plague.

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Wow - fast and definitive resolution!
I obviously posted my thread in the wrong place
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=139373"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=139373[/url]

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[quote name='LawrenceH' post='1258807' date='Jun 6 2011, 07:29 PM']That 'binding' looks like tippex[/quote]

Ha ha, that's what I thought!

BTW the screw holes for the machine heads are in the wrong place for a 60's/70's neck - the base plates were much bigger back then so you'd expect them to be farther out.

Posted

I agree with all of the above and it also looks disgusting. Unless you're getting it for a tenner don't bother, buy a nice new one made in China.

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The single thing that guarantees it as a fake is that Jazzes with the big TV logo like that don't have the Offset Contour Body decal out on the ball. It was dropped when that changed. Also, if headstock-end truss rod adjust, it should have the big bullet, and, of course, be a three-bolt neck.
Wrong in oh so many ways. Castration should be looming large in his life...

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[quote name='gjones' post='1258943' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:14 PM']I agree with all of the above and it also looks disgusting. Unless you're getting it for a tenner don't bother, buy a nice new one made in China.[/quote]

Exactly! I might not know my Fenders well enough to tell whether it is a fake or not, but I know my basses well enough to tell that that it is a foul-looking neck in terrible condition. I have just received an excellent bass neck from Warmoth - try them!

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