"Vintage" neck plates

[mcjt]

This fellow is trying to pass off new neck plates with random serial #'s as vintage plates. it would appear that he has the tooling to properly stamp onto new plates, so he can do L serials, F plate serials, pre L series etc... whatever you want.
and charge $80! people are lining up to buy these!

I guess he's not trying to "pass these off as vintage", he is DOING it and pocketing SERIOUS change!

Now don't all run at the same time to check this out.....


http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZflathead0-1

[GUITARmole]

This fellow is trying to pass off new neck plates with random serial #'s as vintage plates. it would appear that he has the tooling to properly stamp onto new plates, so he can do L serials, F plate serials, pre L series etc... whatever you want.
and charge $80! people are lining up to buy these!

I guess he's not trying to "pass these off as vintage", he is DOING it and pocketing SERIOUS change!

Now don't all run at the same time to check this out.....


http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZflathead0-1

That's nothing a $10 set of stamps from Harbor Freight won't do...

[Surfoverb]

According to Jim Shine it's easy to tell a vintage plate because they would first stamp them and then plate them as opposed to plate first then stamp which is cheaper. Is that what this guys doing?

[mcjt]

I am unsure as to what the actual procedure is with this reseller.
HOWEVER, it sure looks to me that he is taking aftermarket (Fender and non-Fender) neck plates and stamping serial #'s on them. You just have to look into his feedback; DOZENS of auctions for $80 serial #'ed plates.... a thick Fender RI plate is $8 MSRP, and a 'F' plate $12.... he stamps them and sells them EASILY for $50 plus.
Sheesh!

heh. i'm just jealous i didn't think of this first.......

[Ryan]