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I don't think exact replicas are ever OK.
Likewise with the popularity of "chibson" guitars. A few years back people got all excited about being able to buy fake gibsons off aliexpress. "we won't sell them on so it's okay" - no, it's not, and guess what? They're flooding the marketplace now.
Vintage guitars is not a good place to shop!
And no, it is very much not OK to sell one with a fake logo, even with full disclaimers - you never know what the buyer is going to do with it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I’ve got provenance and multiple appraisals so I know mine is real, but now that I’ve done it I probably won’t be dipping my toe in the murky waters again.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Moral and legal issues aside you have to take your hat off to the sheer skill, unbelievable fastidious detail, and sheer hard work to make something like this. I certainly wouldn't call it easy.
Now, if someone wanted the genuine experience of owning a vintage Strat at a realistic price, and strictly for their own use, I can see the appeal ( I've already put my order in for a 1961 Strat, rosewood board in aged lake placid blue where the metallic flakes give it a lovely more turquoise colour! ).
But as has been said the issue comes with these then being sold by someone as bona fide vintage and that can't be controlled. But, being a cynical bugger, if it is that indistinguishable from the 'real thing' maybe you'd get a better guitar than some of the more discoverable fakes that are around!
And being completely devils advocate here, if it is genuinely 100% indistinguishable from a bona fide pre cbs ...and I realise how contentious this is going to sound....even if someone bought it at vintage silly money prices...would it really matter if for all intents and purposes it was a pre cbs strat, it played and sounded like one, and no one could ever tell it wasn't legit?
So, maybe the only protection is to go for carbon dating or something!
Anyway, I'm not worried because the nearest I'll ever get to owning a true pre cbs Strat is a Fender Custom Shop. Even if I could afford a pre cbs Strat I just couldn't trust it was 100% legit anyway.
I wonder if these guys supply vintage road worn cases that are made to the same standards?
I mean...FFS. If you make something amazing, put your own sodding name on it. It's not difficult.
As for not being able to reproduce common, easily replicated, cheaply manufactured items like magnets.. no, just no.
If man made it, man can remake it, cost implications may apply & can cost you lot's of money tokens, but it is do-able & not magick.
Thinking like this really irrates me because it is so irrational. Human engineering did not peak in the 50’s. I am typing this on a computer (phone) less than half an inch thick.
And you are telling me we can’t make a wire?