Monster Relics are so 'perfect' because they're using waterslide and vinyl decals, not hand painted - and if you check out the images that they're using on their advertising for the Saville Strat - there are all sorts of flaws and sticker wrinkles...

They're put out in Singapore, and they're using Japanese bodies... not that the MIJ is lower grade, but I'm pretty sure that they're not Fender at all... so that's suspect.

The neck and the pickups are the most expensive things on their builds, and even that I wouldn't believe are 100% real.

And 'factory finish' with bulletproof poly is pretty easy to pull off.

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