Washburn Oscar Schmidt Serial Numbers

First.This is not my first guitar.Over the years I've owned a Gibson L6S, a Peavey T-60, a Ibanez Iceman, and an Alvarez 12 string acoustic. The new OI14 arrived yesterday. Upon first inspection all looks pretty good. I noticed the nut on the out-put jack was loose.Opened the back plate to secure the jack while tightening it and checked to see if all the connections were still good. The old amp I had hoped to use turned out to be dead, so no plug-in check.An IGTR amp will arrive any day. **I'm posting a bit early because this thing HAS NO SERIAL NUMBER.Thus, I can't register it with O.S. For the warranty.

Counterfeit?The OI14 body and neck are copies of the Wasburn Idol WI14, maybe they put some O.S.s in. I never would've thought anyone would bother faking an O.S.

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Either.But today I googled Counterfeit Guitars, with and without Wasburn, and it turns out that because of the crack downs by the Feds, the bad guys have started making less obvious brand knock-offs.Including Washburns. I got it on Amazon from a store named Springdale Music in Ohio. Other points that suggest fake besides the absent serial number are the neck is made of two pieces of wood, not one. The wood is bare and there is a clearly visible sharp-angled join between the third fret and the first. Also, being a copy of the Wasburn WI14 (pic below), the OI14 should have the same fore-arm scalloped recess in the lower bout.Mine does not. I'm not seeing a whole lot of 'crackdown,' unless you're talking about what the Feds smoke in their spare time (i.e. While on the clock).

So far this year, I've turned two sites over to Gibson legal for selling $350 'Les Paul' axes. Some of these under-$500 fakes even show up with ALL the case-candy -- hang tags, manuals, 'Gibson'-branded inspection tags. You're correct that the more-current OI14 should have the scallop. But I can't tell what they used to do.

And I've had hands on a few Washburn Idols that DON'T. I've bought a few mail-order electrics from stock photos. It's not at all unusual that they arrive with different knobs, pickplate colors, pickup rings, or even headplate logo. To date, though, the quality is what I expected.

Sure, if I order a five-piece neck & get a one-piece -- or vice versa -- there might be some pointed questions directed at the seller. I realy doubt that there'd be much traffic in counterfeiting an Idol -- the margin just ain't there. If you feel you've been ripped off, send it back. But, really, that chances that it'll ever be collectible, much less increase in resale value, are about zero -- it's a good workmanlike axe, at a very reasonable price. In the few days I've had this thing, I've pretty much come to love it.It ain't goin' nowheres. The neck is blazingly fast and comfortable.

And solid.It can take neck-bends and shakes, no sweat. (Almost in the Who Needs A Tremolo area). The 'No-Name' tuners have done a respectable job of staying in tune. I do need to get around to lowering the action a touch, but I can't stop playing it. On the whole, it has a great heft to it and balances perfectly.

If it is a knock-off, it's a great one.This black beauty is mine.