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 Post subject: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 12th, 2016, 4:08 pm 
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I'm not a specialist on these but it does look a little fishy.
Headstock decal looks like a vintage one, rear decal is placed in the wrong spot and the neck plate is blank with a neck plate pad. the control plate it touching the pickguard and also the pickguard screws are short by 1 and placed in a different pattern.
https://reverb.com/item/2939035-music-m ... eft-handed
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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 12th, 2016, 4:20 pm 
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That Bass is 1000% bullshit.

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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 12th, 2016, 4:30 pm 
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Hahaha! That bridge is hilarious!

I am not a Stingray guy at all, and even I immediately noticed that the control cover is all wrong (among everything else, of course).

The listing has already been taken down.

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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 12th, 2016, 10:41 pm 
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That looks like an OLP MM2 with a different neck, but definitely no real MM and no original neck too.

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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 13th, 2016, 10:58 am 
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:evil: :twisted: :? :)


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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 7:38 am 
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Here it is: "Custom Shop Music Man Guitar". About half way down the page.
http://thetopguitars.com/custom-music-man-left-handed-fretless-natural-bass.html
Or even cheaper:
http://www.dhgate.com/store/product/left-handed-4-strings-music-stingray-electric/143995198.html
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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 7:57 am 
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Is this dude seriously making copies and branding them MM? How can this be legal? :shock: :|

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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 8:04 am 
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The guitar itself looks like a pretty standard chinese copy, but they all come sans sticker. Passing it off as a real MM, via the sticker, is what keeps getting the posting yanked.
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PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 8:12 am 
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2ToneIdiot wrote:
Is this dude seriously making copies and branding them MM? How can this be legal? :shock: :|



It can't.

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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 9:06 am 
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bob__johnson wrote:
Here it is: "Custom Shop Music Man Guitar". About half way down the page.
http://thetopguitars.com/custom-music-man-left-handed-fretless-natural-bass.html
Or even cheaper:
http://www.dhgate.com/store/product/left-handed-4-strings-music-stingray-electric/143995198.html

Holly cow.
Even that price is too expensive for that piece of junk!
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PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 2:26 pm 
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CUSTOM BUILT "RIP-OFF" GUITARS should be the subtitle under his logo... after scrolling through the page, seems like there isn't a manufacturer they're willing to duplicate....

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Look at this one.
http://thetopguitars.com/custom-left-ha ... -bass.html
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PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 3:54 pm 
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Woah, $200 for Gotoh tuners?!
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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 15th, 2016, 2:11 pm 
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The listing is up for sale again :?
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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 16th, 2016, 6:13 am 
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It's like the guy is begging for legal trouble. :|

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 Post subject: Re: Fretless Stingray FAKE?
PostPosted: September 17th, 2016, 10:14 am 
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It's been pulled off again.
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