ourmaninthenorth
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Oh, I thought they were pretty much unmentionables elsewhere? I know TGP doesn't do replicas. I'm pretty sure I first heard about Bartletts and some of the other ones on this site! The most I know about them is from the Yaron build threads on the tele site.
Yet, partscasters with Fender logos are flippin' everywhere you look. Replica stuff all seems very hush hush to me?
You have me at a disadvantage, I don't use TGP, but bravo to them on this issue.
I believe The Other Place has no such issues...again the wind might have changed there - I've been banned for a while...so other than a little internecine cross cut and pasting in that GuitarPoint 'Burst thing a couple of years ago, I rarely feel the need to read the site, which is a little churlish on my part to be candid, there are some good Lads over there too.
A UK site I read appears to have some detractors, but in the main, fakes are openly discussed and sold (albeit with the comical proviso of sans headstock pics)
For something so self celebratory in their underground status and bespoke rarity, they are every bloody where.
I had a UK made fake in my hands weeks ago... as an aside it wouldn't have fooled The Wife...
Fake stuff, not just guitars, does indeed like to talk out of the side of it's mouth, all windswept and mysterious like. I'm not clever enough for it, I like to keep things nice and simple.
Something either is, or it ain't.
Can someone give me a nudge when these fake becomes real ?
I have a feeling it may very well be in my lifetime.