Dual Pro 1953 Fender D8

Thomas Tedford · Post by **Thomas Tedford** » 3 Sep 2015 5:40 pm

Great shape for the year, and the pickups have been turbo charged (re magnetized)
$1350. 50 bucks shipping which will be much more, but I will add it on my self. The case has a bit of water damage but works fine, and looks fair, it did not effect the steel itself

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Thomas Tedford · Post by **Thomas Tedford** » 8 Sep 2015 5:19 pm

OK, I think I did a bad job of trying to sell this with comments, lol. THIS IS a 1953 in really really fine shape, and the pickups have been sent off and remagnetized, and reinstalled. Now you do not have to do all that to get this great vintage sound and instrument. I am only selling it because I need video equipment (I do music videos).

Wayne Joseph · Post by **Wayne Joseph** » 8 Sep 2015 6:07 pm

Nice instrument

Thomas Tedford · Post by **Thomas Tedford** » 9 Sep 2015 5:26 am

OH, well that was never a problem before. I signed up not knowing that the sight actually used your name as your username. I always go by my middle name, and that has never been a problem on here. I bought and sold several times on here and received 100 percent satisfaction in remarks.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 9 Sep 2015 6:51 am

I think he meant on the instrument, if I'm not mistaken. Dual Pro is the instrument you are selling. Fender D8 usually refers to a Stringmaster. But anyone could see by the picture what you are selling. It is a beauty!

Thomas Tedford · Post by **Thomas Tedford** » 9 Sep 2015 8:17 am

oh ok, well D8 means double 8, did they not make a Dual Pro D6 at some point? I always look for the string numbers before I click on anything on the forum because my interests were always in 8 strings.

Mark Roeder · Post by **Mark Roeder** » 9 Sep 2015 8:51 am

Good point......I only know enough info to be dangerous.
I am not sure how they did the Dual Pro 6 strings

Jeff Mead · Post by **Jeff Mead** » 9 Sep 2015 10:46 am

Fender (in their catalogues) described this as a Dual 8 Professional.

I don't have a problem with it being described as a Dual Pro D8 - especially as there are plenty of pictures that show exactly which model the guitar is.

I agree that D8 simply means double 8 string which is perfectly valid if you are describing a lap or pedal guitar and is very useful to have in the subject line.

Thomas Tedford · Post by **Thomas Tedford** » 17 Sep 2015 5:14 am

Moving on up, would prefer to avoid eBay.....

Carl Mesrobian · Post by **Carl Mesrobian** » 14 Nov 2015 8:13 am

Ted..Is the guitar still available? Thomas, sorry!

Adam Nero · Post by **Adam Nero** » 15 Nov 2015 6:53 am

Maybe a picture of the front?

I'm the happy owner of one of these guitars and I dunno what could make me ever wanna sell it. Those trap pickups just sound so so good.

Danny James · Post by **Danny James** » 15 Nov 2015 10:08 pm

That looks to be the Dual Pro that I sold to Mr. Tedford.

If it is he is telling it correctly in saying the pickups have been sent off and re-magnetized.

I carefully took them out and sent them to Rick Aiello who re-magnetized them for me. He did a great job and the pickups are strong. Everything works very well on that guitar and I was just telling my wife I often have wished I had kept it.

When my friend Rick sent them back to me he told me the magnets in those pickups should be strong for another 50 yrs.

The reason that I sold it is I have always played single neck steel guitars, and just couldn't get used to switching necks while playing a song, and also I have a single neck lapsteel guitar that I built with a changer that I designed and built, and it has 4 tunings that are available with the flip of a single lever. So I didn't need the Fender.

You will be hard pressed to find a nicer Fender Dual Pro than this one. You won't go wrong buying it.

Carl Mesrobian · Post by **Carl Mesrobian** » 18 Nov 2015 5:23 pm

He posted it for sale last January and left the thread open, and now this thread. I wonder if it's still for sale. Thomas??

Jim Newberry · Post by **Jim Newberry** » 18 Nov 2015 8:44 pm

I had an email from him and he said it had been sold. Consider this second hand...