GENE FIELDS FENDER with seat ole memories die hard

Ernest Cawby · From: Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.

How do you like this Gene Fields Guitar built while working at Fender Under Boss Roy Ayers, this should bring back Memories.
Front neck is played with fingers, Back neck you use a bar to fret with. The seat is built somehow onto the framwork, that is what it looks like to me.
Shocked

what an eye opener.
I want to add these picture opened up in 10 seconds, that is fast, proper sizing sure helps.

ernie

Peer Desmense · From: Netherlands

Remarkable contraption.
I am very curious about the undercarriage. Looks a lot like the Fenders Gene designed before he started his own company.
What about cabinet drop here?
Cabinet drops as person takes seat?
How do you pack this guitar?
One case? Need weightlifter to move this one.
Two cases perhaps?
Who owns this machine?

Weird thing.

Peer

Ernest Cawby · From: Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.

I should have posted more info, it was on display at the Dalas show in his GFI room, did not take picture of the bottom The guitar may just sit on the stand, You could not see how it was attached just looking at it, I would think it sererated from the stand and put up just like any other guitar, just my thinking.

ernie

Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

That's basically a Fender PS210 with one neck modified. I remember playing one of these at a Trade Show in Nashville in either late 1971 or early 72. The seat was an add-on option for the PS210.

Sonny Jenkins · From: Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx

Gene always has this guitar displayed in his room at the Dallas show. I believe the seat is supported primarily by the legs,and the guitar is so short and "thick" that there could not be much if any cabinet drop. I've sat down and noodled around on it,,,and Gene always plays it,,both necks.

Paul Redmond · From: Illinois, USA

I asked Gene one time about his weight bending or flexing the rear apron of the guitar badly. He told me he pretty well centered the support leg under the seat to help distribute his weight evenly to the floor and to the rear apron of the guitar. He also stated at the time that he had watch it so he didn't rock backwards and "lift" the rear apron up, so I don't believe cabinet flex was much of a problem. Besides that, a PS-210 was short, and built like a Sherman tank, welded frame and all.
Basil Henriques has posted many great pics and info re: the famous PS-210 over the years...the pics show the underside very well. You'll have to search the Forum archives, but they're there in living color.
I saw Gene play this guitar for the first time at Scotty's back in the mid-1980's and am still in awe of the genius of this man. CBS apparently pulled the plug on this guitar's further development and that was probably good for the other manufacturers of the era. This PS-210 can be set up so easily and has so many variations in leverage and travel, it'd blow your mind. You can also change from Day to Emmons or vice versa, including the E KL's, during a 15-minute band break. Some of the 15 that were actually classified as "production" models, could either be stopped at the endplate like a ZB or a Kline, or underneath with the changer "floating"...WAY ahead of its time, and a real tribute to the genius of Gene Fields IMO. I don't believe to this day that most steel players realize just how advanced this guitar was in that era. The shift mechanism which allowed the KL's and pedals to activate either the front neck or rear, is so brilliant as to leave one babbling in the corner and looking at the wallpaper!!!
PRR

Doug Earnest · From: Branson, MO USA

Gene is definitely a genius and not afraid to do something different!
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