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Rubbish.
More rubbish. There is another guy in my area trying to palm off a Pau Ferro SRV Strat as Brazilian so I did a google search looking for where people get material to substantiate their delusion and found this thread. I registered and posted my understanding and experience. Maybe the delusion is honest but it is stoked by the lust for $$$ or at least increased value of their guitar. Everyone likes a good deal but when it ends being a bad deal for a buyer down the track well that's another story.
Even for luthiers just from pictures or even smell if you have it in hand it is difficult to be 100% sure. Smell you would need to take some shavings and burn it to be 100%. This fingerboard you can't tell for sure it's Brazilian from the looks. There is no 100% tells here. Some Braz does display solid tells. However, Gibson (as Fender do) keeps records and they are particularly fastidious about Brazilian records from 1990 on when flora and fauna protection increased. Gibson releases serial numbers for the 2001, 2003 & 2002 guitars that got Brazilian. There are LOTs of guys that have 2003 Les Pauls with colourful Indian rosewood boards that try and palm them off as Brazilian too. It's very clear though if the guitar is legit and has a confirmed Brazilian serial number then it IS Brazilian. These are the only guitars that have increased value. Thinking it might be Brazilian doesn't make it so. I think I might be a Billionaire now I don't give a F if it's Braz or not!Here is closeup pic of my 2003 R8 Les Paul with Brazilian rosewood. I got it in 2004. It’s been refretted since my shit gets played and not stared at while hanging on a wall.
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Mine is confirmed based on serial number.
Who ever said there was?
He wants to create a controversy when there isn't one. Lol
Lot's of people have presented their SRV Strats as having Brazilian rosewood boards. (The OP was 99% sure he had Braz). Lots of people have said publicly that Fender definitely made the first 100, 200 or even 500 SRV Strats with Brazilian Rosewood in 1991 and 1992. THAT'S A FACT
Of course there is controversy. The reality is that lots of people perpetuate a myth and lots of people have taken that myth and fraudulent taken an extra 3k USD or so based on fraud. I am just trying to set the record straight as a community service. Instead of you guys attacking me calling me troll or making out I am making up something you could appreciate what I am actually doing instead of projecting stuff I am not doing onto me. Thanks.
Another name for PF is Bolivian Rosewood. They are closely related but completely different species. Comparing Bolivian to Indian Rosewood you probably couldn't tell the difference but you definitely can hear a difference with real brazilian rosewood.
Instead of coming in here and attacking the OP, you could just simply mention your opinion on this with your posts....this would have been a much better way of going about things. But you come off as attacking the OP with a personal agenda...as if he sold YOU something that wasn't as advertised. Assuming things gets you nowhere.
Of all people Id think you would be all in on that one.
Does it sound more like a dragstrip?
