This Tele's not right surely?

ICBM

TonyR said:

Go on then, for the uneducated (on Telecasters that is!) what are the giveaway signs?

Headstock shape is slightly off

Crappy string trees

Wrong machineheads to go with 22-fret neck

Plain truss rod access hole (if it's an AVRI it should be at the other end, too!)

Separate maple fingerboard

Neck shaping on the back behind the nut

Fingerboard dots are slightly too small and 12th fret dots too far apart

Wrong combination of 8-screw single-ply pickguard and neck pickup with mounting screws into the body not guard

Pickguard screws are too large

Wrong bridge with top-loaded strings

Wrong knobs - should be flat-topped and more roughly knurled

… at least, that I can see at a quick look over. There's probably more.

TonyR

ICBM said:

TonyR said:

Go on then, for the uneducated (on Telecasters that is!) what are the giveaway signs?

Headstock shape is slightly off

Crappy string trees

Wrong machineheads to go with 22-fret neck

Plain truss rod access hole (if it's an AVRI it should be at the other end, too!)

Separate maple fingerboard

Neck shaping on the back behind the nut

Fingerboard dots are slightly too small and 12th fret dots too far apart

Wrong combination of 8-screw single-ply pickguard and neck pickup with mounting screws into the body not guard

Pickguard screws are too large

Wrong bridge with top-loaded strings

Wrong knobs - should be flat-topped and more roughly knurled

… at least, that I can see at a quick look over. There's probably more.

Thanks!

thermionic

The headstock shape and decal placement look the most obviously wrong to me. The tuners don't look in a straight line, which speaks volumes about the guitar in general, and the especially the neck.

Corvus

How would it look with a sock over the headstock I wonder?

(Don't really)

Sassafras

Better.

xmrchi

Aaaaand it's gone.

underdog

I did send him a message about 5 o clock saying you know it's a fake, I know it's a fake don't be a dick and try and rip people off.

Philly_Q

Corvus said:

How would it look with a sock over the headstock I wonder?

(Don't really)

It would look like a really shitty Tele copy with a sock over the headstock. 

 

OilCityPickups

A UK made range of socks with appropriate logos perhaps relic'potato' at the heel and some rough darning 

Neil

I thought it looked a wrong 'un with the truss rod hole but didn't get half of what the forum cognoscenti pointed out.

An educating experience to be sure. 

GuitarZero

The first three things I look at are the truss rod hole, the 12th fret dots and the neck heel.  These are usually the give-away sign for me.

MattFGBI

Oh look, it seems to have gone. 

usedtobe

Don't call me Shirley!