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Topic: Is this a Fender? |
Ron Victoria
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 12:32 pm |
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It sort of looks like a Champ. Is it Fender parts on another or homemade body?
Link to auction on eBay. |
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Jon Nygren
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 12:34 pm
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| Looks to be the top part of a Fender 400 pedal steel. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 1:18 pm
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That's exactly what it is. There's no guarantee that the pickup even works. I wouldn't bid on this unless I had a use for the bridge cover and knobs. The fretboard appears to be trashed, and the tuners on a Fender 400 often go bad.
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Rick Collins
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Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 3:08 pm
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Have you ever seen a violin on Ebay with the back cut out?
I haven't either.
It still remains a mystery to me why so much of this butchery is done to steel guitars.
It's even more widespread on steel guitars than Spanish style and electric guitars.
And, you can imagine the ratio of guitars to steel guitars.
Could the individuals who do this be saying,
"Well, this thing is so hard to play there must be something wrong with it;
I think I'll take it apart and fix it"? |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Richard Sevigny
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Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 10 Jun 2009 6:44 am
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Hence the butchery... "I'll just make it a Lap steel!"  |
Irony moment... seems to me if you just ignore regular maintenance, that's what it would essentially become anyway 
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 10 Jun 2009 3:35 pm
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At one point years ago I had a Fender 1000 D-8 that I bought without out any pedal board, rods, or pedals. It came in a homemade case and had the four long legs so it could be played standing up. I eventually traded it in (maybe to Blackie Taylor) on a S-10 Blanton pedal steel. It had the metal all around the body and the pickup worked fine. I think I'd be more apt to buy something like that than this one shown..........JH in Va.
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Rick Collins
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Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2009 12:30 pm
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Back in the "glory days of Fender" did new steel guitars come with the instructions:
Some dis-assembly required? |
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