Fake Fender

[pete1951]

I have just been given this ‘Telecaster’ style neck. The Fender logo has been well applied ,if a little too close to the end ( Also has a Custom Shop’ logo on the back) but it I can see it is a fake.
 
So what to do?

I have an old Burns body ( well not very old for a Burns, but still made by Jim Burns ) which needs a neck . Should I leave the Fender logo? The last neck with a fake F. logo I just changed Stratocaster to Copycaster , or I could put ‘Not a’ in front of the logo.?

I like the look of original logos on ‘traditional’ head shapes ( my National copies usually have Natural written in similar script so they look right but are not done to deceive)

Pete

[Pickers Ditch]

I'd leave it 'as is' Pete - it's all part of the history.

[stevearcade]

If it were me, I'd just leave the decal alone and roll with it. If anyone asks, tell them it's a fake you were gifted to get the neck-less Burns up and running. If anyone's going to be snobby and/or judge you for it, that's their problem.

[pete1951]

Well as you can see it’s on the Burns Scorpion body ( what was Jim thinking when he did it that shape?)

[stevearcade]

Haha! That's a truly bonkers guitar. I love it!

[mitchfit]

pete1951,

you could just paint "No Leo" on the front?

or "Es-Squire" to avoid legal issues?

or just "Squire", don't they all actually mean the same thing?

before anyone takes offense, i openly admit that i have two older MIM strats. please don't kill the messenger, not implying anything. but back then, the nationality is marked in places that can't be seen from the front. would that make them worth more than ones marked on the front?

guit collecting is hard to understand for me.

to muddy the water up even more-- i have a late 1990s MIJ electric XII copy of the mid 1960s strat 12. clearly not the vintage model as it lacks the "hockey stick" head stock of the original. between the tuning pegs on the front it says:

squire [copy right R in circle]
venus [copy right R in circle]
by fender [copy right R in circle]
vista [copy right R in circle]

www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/register-trademark

can you tell me who actually owns this design? a trick question. below from WIKI:

..."A man named Tim George of the short-lived Mercury Guitar Company (of Atlanta, GA) has claimed to be the actual designer of the guitar, along with his company co-founder Danny Babbitt.[3] According to George, Babbitt snuck backstage at a Nirvana concert in Atlanta in November 1993 and sold the original custom metallic-green Mercury guitar on which the Venus design was eventually based to Love. Love played this guitar in public extensively over the next several years, and it is the guitar she played in the music video for Hole's song Violet.[4] The 6-string Venus model is virtually identical to Love's Mercury guitar, except with a Fender Stratocaster-like headstock. Hole's song Violet.[4] The 6-string Venus model is virtually identical to Love's Mercury guitar, except with a Fender Stratocaster-like headstock."...

EVEN MORE ABSTRACT-would one that was owned by Noel Redding be worth $6,612.16?

reverb.com/item/74961842-noel-redding-jimi-hendrix-experience-incredibly-rare-squier-venus-12-string

so really, who cares? the most important spec to me is the squire has a 42.9 mm nut and the original Fender had a 41.3 mm nut. serious consideration on a 12 string.

any body who was a collector would likely sense that a Tele neck wasn't OEM on a Burns body anyway? so much for collector value. list neck as a fake, the honesty may impress a possible player/buyer.

mitchfit

[pete1951]

I will leave the logo at the moment and might do a video and see if anyone on the forum would like this odd instrument. If they don’t I’ll hand it over to my son-in-law who has a small ‘Reverb’ shop . When it goes on Reverb I will have to change ( or at least cover) the logo, Reverb are very sensitive about fake branding ( which is reassuring) .

Anyone out there want the worlds ugliest guitar?
Pair of P90 style pickups
5 position switch ( yes 5 different tones from 2 pickups)
Great action, etc etc.

[archtopeddy]

I had a buddy who made very crude but in their own way very cool Tele copies. I told him he ought to label them as an O'Fenders. haha.