eBay Content: Where There’s Wear?

HarrySeven

http://r.ebay.com/Cp4O9Q

Wear pattern-wise, it may look a wee bit *too* predictable - or is it just me?

ICBM

Do you mean 'does it look fake'?

Yes it does.

Garthy

Apart from the buckle rash, I can't see how wear like that could happen anyway.

HarrySeven

ICBM said:

Do you mean 'does it look fake'?

Yes it does.

Indeed. 

Funkfingers

So, is the headstock break "smile" real or has the relic treatment been taken to absurd extremes?

scrumhalf

The "wear" on the back of the neck suggests it might have been owned by an Australian international cricketer.

Jack_

Looks like LTD factory got hold of it.

Philly_Q

Fake wear or real wear, it's a bloody horrible colour.  And what the hell happened to the front of the headstock?

ICBM

Garthy said:

Apart from the buckle rash, I can't see how wear like that could happen anyway.

I can’t see how the “buckle rash” could happen either, unless the owner was wearing a small hammer as a belt buckle and was in the habit of bashing the guitar against himself...

Philly_Q said:

And what the hell happened to the front of the headstock?

That’s one of the very few possibly genuine bits - the finish has separated from the head facing. They sometimes go like that - it possibly happened when the headstock got broken, which I don’t doubt is real.

The other interesting thing is that he claims the case is “equally worn and frayed“... no it isn’t. It looks almost new - they get tatty quite quickly if they’re actually gigged.

ESBlonde

Philly_Q said:

Fake wear or real wear, it's a bloody horrible colour.  And what the hell happened to the front of the headstock?

As ICBM says, that actually does look genuine and is not usually one of the things fakers do in my limited experience. At £750 it's worth a look in case it really does play nice, otherwise it's going to be hard to shift down the line I suspect.

HarrySeven

I’ve seen headstocks like that numerous times, although (as already pointed out), the other wear does look iffy.

mbe

Jack_ said:

Looks like LTD factory got hold of it.

Uncanny, I thought the same. The LTD Eclipse relics that all look exactly alike with the bizarre wear patches round the knobs.

Philly_Q

Yeah, I didn't think the headstock was a result of fake ageing, it just looks awful.

GoldenEraGuitars

At least the case looks nice.