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Blood boiling fakes
NORTY40:
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are they real or fakes? :teef:
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;D
Not too sure Griff ....... but i wouldn't mind finding out , with my own hands obviously :D
You can actually tell by the skin tbh , it's a fine art and many years of melon feeling has given me the knowledge to recognise the difference between a fake and the real thing ;)
Mat:
Fakies always have the nip on.
Which is just another reason to invest 3K :daumenhoch:
dinglem:
Like i said, i don't do fakes :daumenhoch:
Jaan:
--- Quote from: dinglem on September 18, 2014, 12:41 PM ---^^ this is all a bit of a shame....
I've not been posting on RAD very long so have been quite surprised at a few of the posts in recent weeks. Lots of personal stuff being written that is probably best said via PM or to faces, as entertaining as it may be for everybody else to read....
Anyway... back to fakes. What can you do? I guess as prices ''boom'' or whatever you wish to call it then this will happen more and more. The re-issue Burners, Skyways and so on would mean absolutely nothing to me and i could never justify buying one. Again, each to their own. Buying the parts you have been hunting for for years is a real thrill, and finding them in NOS condition is even better, but you do sometimes have to wonder where all of this ''NOS'' stock is coming from. I imagine it would be better to buy items in survivor condition with 30+years of battle-scars to prove age and authenticity and then restore said items yourself to the spec you wish.
I've always like UNI Hand Grenade grips, but was gutted to find out the II's had been re-manufactured as I could never bring myself to buy a pair as there was always a risk they were re-issues. It's not the desire to have things others haven't, it is just what I want to do in this hobby, and buying new stuff off the shelf isn't it. I restore classic cars as another hobby and that is exactly the same for me. In my head i would know something on a car wasn't right, even if to 99.9% of people looking at it, it looks genuine. Re-issues taint the OG items in my mind; whilst i have Bear Traps and B1B's in my stash i would never buy any more now they can be found new.
I eventually went for a pair of Hand Grenade I's in the hope that it is only the second generations that have been re-manufactured - i've read that the original tooling was modified to make the II's so the first generation can't be remade easily), and i also made sure the pair I bought still had the original box (albeit a bit battered) and came with the original glue packet, bar-end discs and so on. Even then, they could be fake grips with a new box, but in my head, they're fine. I'm happier to pay over the odds for something like that because i don't sell anything on, and i am just collecting for myself.
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I'm pretty new to the game I suppose, but i am just buying the items that I like and that to the best of my ability I can convince myself are the real deal. If that's what makes me happy then that's good enough for me. It''s a shame that there are people out there trying to use the genuine interest of others to make a profit out of fake (or reproduction dressed as OG) items. I do a lot of research before i buy things, and that in itself is very much a part of this hobby for me.
I'd like to think I know the difference between real and fake, but others on here know a lot more than i do :D
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Repop Oakley's are stamped 2010, repop Hand Grenades are made from harder rubber and if you can't get your hands on them they have an additional weep hole just past "Grenade" and repop Hutch pedals have an extra four grip studs on the platforms.... etc etc.
Like I said its all about educating yourself to know the differences, which can take time, but the fact that copies are out there certainly won't stop me buying anything original. I don't get that?
Devilock:
--- Quote from: dinglem on September 18, 2014, 12:41 PM ---^^ this is all a bit of a shame....
I've not been posting on RAD very long so have been quite surprised at a few of the posts in recent weeks. Lots of personal stuff being written that is probably best said via PM or to faces, as entertaining as it may be for everybody else to read....
Anyway... back to fakes. What can you do? I guess as prices ''boom'' or whatever you wish to call it then this will happen more and more. The re-issue Burners, Skyways and so on would mean absolutely nothing to me and i could never justify buying one. Again, each to their own. Buying the parts you have been hunting for for years is a real thrill, and finding them in NOS condition is even better, but you do sometimes have to wonder where all of this ''NOS'' stock is coming from. I imagine it would be better to buy items in survivor condition with 30+years of battle-scars to prove age and authenticity and then restore said items yourself to the spec you wish.
I've always like UNI Hand Grenade grips, but was gutted to find out the II's had been re-manufactured as I could never bring myself to buy a pair as there was always a risk they were re-issues. It's not the desire to have things others haven't, it is just what I want to do in this hobby, and buying new stuff off the shelf isn't it. I restore classic cars as another hobby and that is exactly the same for me. In my head i would know something on a car wasn't right, even if to 99.9% of people looking at it, it looks genuine. Re-issues taint the OG items in my mind; whilst i have Bear Traps and B1B's in my stash i would never buy any more now they can be found new.
I eventually went for a pair of Hand Grenade I's in the hope that it is only the second generations that have been re-manufactured - i've read that the original tooling was modified to make the II's so the first generation can't be remade easily), and i also made sure the pair I bought still had the original box (albeit a bit battered) and came with the original glue packet, bar-end discs and so on. Even then, they could be fake grips with a new box, but in my head, they're fine. I'm happier to pay over the odds for something like that because i don't sell anything on, and i am just collecting for myself.
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I'm pretty new to the game I suppose, but i am just buying the items that I like and that to the best of my ability I can convince myself are the real deal. If that's what makes me happy then that's good enough for me. It''s a shame that there are people out there trying to use the genuine interest of others to make a profit out of fake (or reproduction dressed as OG) items. I do a lot of research before i buy things, and that in itself is very much a part of this hobby for me.
I'd like to think I know the difference between real and fake, but others on here know a lot more than i do :D
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Run that by me again. ..
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