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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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I have heard those are some good pedals, that make your guitar sound good.

Give her the duty of inventorying your guitars and guitar accessories?

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Gotta have her organize 'em too, not just doing an inventory. I can then check/verify values. I'm pretty good at estimating a guitar's worth - especially a collector's guitar. I'm fairly fluent with current guitar prices, but I'm pretty spot on for stuff like a pre-war Martin. I am guessing that I could work as an appraiser. I even know enough lore to be able to identify quite a lot of stuff, so spotting fakes is something I can do - as well as fixing mislabeled guitars to what they really are.

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I know that I do not know enough about old guitars to tell a fake from a relic'd one

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The wear looks and feels different. Also, explore areas of the guitar where they'd not relic - like look inside at the bracing, check the quality of the truss rod nut, look inside the cavities (where you can) to look for wood type and condition, along with all sorts of things a relic guitar doesn't have. Things like fret wire have changed dramatically over the years - and it's easy to guess the generation based on said fret wires.

Stuff like that...

Unless it's a really good fake, there's always something that gives it away. And, if it's a really good fake, what's the difference? As far as the market is concerned, there isn't one - until someone discovers that it's a fake.

And, guitars don't have the value violins have. So, there's not a whole lot of forgery going on - but I'm sure there's some. I've had two occasions where someone tried to misrepresent the guitar they were trying to sell me. So far as I know, that is it. One put a Fender neck on a Squire and the other was a "Gibson" acoustic whose model name I've forgotten and it was really, really bad. The identifying sticker inside the guitar was on modern paper, poorly cut, had none of the right logos or fonts, and the paper hadn't aged at all - so it was bright white.