Real or fake PRS SE Paul Allender 2009

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Found this guitar in Malaysia, sketchy thing about it (apart from being found in Malaysia) from what I can see from the fairly bad photos is that the pick-up poles are not gold and neither are the screws surrounding them. same goes for the screws holding the back plate.

All the rest seems fairly legitimate. Any help would be greatly appreciated

http://www.joesmac.com.my/product_details/view/73

Another photo I took myself (bad lighting):
http://imgur.com/IOuCvEs
 
I owned a Allender a while back and I'm almost sure it was the same way. I really don't think that's a model they would make a fake of anyway.
 
Z_C_ said:
Found this guitar in Malaysia, sketchy thing about it (apart from being found in Malaysia) from what I can see from the fairly bad photos is that the pick-up poles are not gold and neither are the screws surrounding them. same goes for the screws holding the back plate.

All the rest seems fairly legitimate. Any help would be greatly appreciated

http://www.joesmac.com.my/product_details/view/73

Another photo I took myself (bad lighting):
http://imgur.com/IOuCvEs
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It's real. After the first few years they were out myself and PRS had really trouble with the Chinese ripping my guitars off, there were countles lawyer communications with the Chinese market. Also had real issues with people making super cheap model guitars of my design and trying to say they came up with the original which was total fabrication. You can get all these all over eBay. I would either go through PRS or try eBay. The model in the pic is the very first one, you can tell this by the flat body.
 
Paul Allender said:
It's real. After the first few years they were out myself and PRS had really trouble with the Chinese ripping my guitars off, there were countles lawyer communications with the Chinese market. Also had real issues with people making super cheap model guitars of my design and trying to say they came up with the original which was total fabrication. You can get all these all over eBay. I would either go through PRS or try eBay. The model in the pic is the very first one, you can tell this by the flat body.
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Welcome to the forum, Paul!

(I have an SE Allender on my GAS list, almost got one earlier this year...)
 
Paul Allender said:
It's real. After the first few years they were out myself and PRS had really trouble with the Chinese ripping my guitars off, there were countles lawyer communications with the Chinese market. Also had real issues with people making super cheap model guitars of my design and trying to say they came up with the original which was total fabrication. You can get all these all over eBay. I would either go through PRS or try eBay. The model in the pic is the very first one, you can tell this by the flat body.
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I recently purchased the Paul Allender SE made in 2009. The pickups have been switched out at some point. Do you know what pickups were used for this Model?
 
I have recently purchased this exact guitar second hand with a Black Winter bridge pickup. am I able to flick some images through to a guru that can check legitimacy of guitar?

Thanks legend!
 
Just looked at mine. Sorry, but did not realize that mine was a 2010 model with the active EMG 89 in bridge, and 81TW on the neck. Give PRS c/s a shout, they can help you find your answer.
 
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