Wierd Fender on Ebay

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 3 Jun 2003 2:00 pm

look at this

check it out, never seen anything like it.
the guys says its all original,
I think the red toggles are a sign he
just might be mistaken.
[This message was edited by Jesse Harris on 03 June 2003 at 03:05 PM.]

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 3 Jun 2003 2:04 pm

looking at it again its like a SD-10 but the strung neck is on the players side, I guess the rest of the console is for cocktails or something, and the moulding on the necks look wierd.

this guy is funny though

" I've never seen another fender pedal steel like it. This guitar is all original."

So if you have never seen one like it how would you have any idea it was all original

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 3 Jun 2003 2:09 pm

All original what? Looks homemade to me, with a few Fender parts.

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 3 Jun 2003 2:10 pm

Thats what I thought but I wanted to make sure I didnt miss something, I think the only frnder parts are the tailpiece and maybe the knobs.

Jody Carver · Post by **Jody Carver** » 3 Jun 2003 4:35 pm

Looks from where I sit,the al-mag frame from
a 1000 guitar where the outer neck has been
stripped. The volume and tone knobs look original,the tail plate looks original,but
I think a guy by the name of Rube modified this.

His last name is Goldberg.

Leo would turn over in his resting place should he see what abortions have been done to these so called modifications.

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Thats the way it goes.
[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 03 June 2003 at 05:36 PM.]

Bob Metzger · Post by **Bob Metzger** » 3 Jun 2003 5:08 pm

The nearest this thing comes to the big Fender "F" is ...... Frankensteel!

Tony LaCroix · Post by **Tony LaCroix** » 3 Jun 2003 6:17 pm

Am I the only one that thinks it's perty?

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 3 Jun 2003 6:38 pm

Yeah, it's not a Fender. The only 10 strings they ever made were the 800, 2000, and the ones which ShoBud made for them and they all had the same headstock with the chrome dish type thing with the tuning keys set it it. It does look like an old 1000 frame though.

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chas smith · Post by **chas smith** » 3 Jun 2003 8:49 pm

You could put a pad on the front neck....

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 4 Jun 2003 2:32 am

You could use the table in back to set up your guardian action figures....

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 4 Jun 2003 7:49 am

Looks like a homemade oak body. I think that outer ledge is where the girls rest their elbows when they stare dreamily at you while you play - you know, like a piano bar.

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 4 Jun 2003 9:11 am

My guess is it's where the seller puts his crack pipe if he thinks this is all original.

Bob Metzger · Post by **Bob Metzger** » 4 Jun 2003 12:36 pm

I emailed him to suggest to him that this instrument (although interesting) was probably not made at the Fender factory and there are ethical concerns as to purporting the same. I told him to try to find a recognized Fender expert who agrees with him and would document this Franken-parts 'o-caster - which, of course, would be an obvious exercise in futility. This news was received somewhere between lukewarm and tepid.

There used to be alot of guys with ads like "1975 Pre-CBS Strat". This mentality is finally infecting the steel guitar community, unfortunately. Where there is $$$, there are frauds; an unfortunate fact that the most trusting among us will learn the hard way.

Bob M.

Jackie Anderson · Post by **Jackie Anderson** » 4 Jun 2003 2:27 pm

"Like a piano bar" -- my thought exactly!

Let's assume, charitably, that the builder didn't begin by tearing apart a perfectly nice Fender 1000, but that he salvaged some parts from here and there....

Other than the waste of space where there coulda/shoulda been another neck, and the molding alongside the neck, it looks like a nice piece of homebrewing. I wonder what's underneath....

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 5 Jun 2003 11:41 am

ya bob, I emailed him too and did not recieve a response, I feel like emailing the high bidder and tellin him hes about to get snowed.

Bob Metzger · Post by **Bob Metzger** » 6 Jun 2003 12:29 pm

My email rapport with him dried up too when I said those three little magic words: Recognized Fender Expert.

Bob M.