Curly Chalker and His Fender 1000

Justin Griffith · Post by **Justin Griffith** » 6 May 2015 4:45 am

Thanks for the heads up! I snagged the LP off eBay and it is incredible! Thanks gang!

David Ball · Post by **David Ball** » 12 Feb 2022 8:45 am

Resurrecting an old thread here--the OP had wondered if any pictures exist of Curly and his Fender 1000. I wonder the same thing--anybody know?

Dave

Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 18 Feb 2022 9:57 am

What Donny said -

Anything recorded prior to roughly September of '63 (which was transition time for Fender from long to short scale guitars, with several 1000's sold with mixed parts and ash bodies with "new" sunburst finishes) would have to have been performed on a long scale, D8 1000 or S8 400 with pedals only.

FWIW most Fender players that use 8-string guitars today prefer the long scale guitars, which have much better sustain (most commonly using a low-8 E9 and any of several copedents on 1000's, often with 2-3 knee levers; and low-8 E9 with 4-6 pedals and sometimes a couple knee levers or "Sneaky" B6 8+2 or 9+2 on 400's. Pete added a 9th pedal to his 400 but it ended up unused - he left it on but only used it as a right foot placeholder, as he rarely touched his volume pedal - so many B6 players omit it.

For those who don't know we have a huge Fender Pedal Steel group over on Facebook with downloadable catalogs, technical info, modification and maintenance guides and other documents in the "files" section.