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Topic: Will somebody set this guy straight! |
Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 8 May 2007 5:53 pm |
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Auction on eBay.
He has it narrowed down to a Stringmaster, Custom, or Professional. I sent him the link for a Custom and he still thinks it's something else!!! The link he posted is a Professional but not what he's selling. Anyone can see the pickups are different.
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Bob Tuttle
From:
Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 8 May 2007 6:12 pm
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| The Double 8's were Professionals. The Triple 8's were Customs. This d-8 Professional has the normal trapezoid pickups on it. The earliest ones had the rectangular, boxcar pickups. I'm not sure what year they changed. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 8 May 2007 6:13 pm
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Ron, you spend entirely too much time on ebay. 
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 May 2007 9:37 pm
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I see the seller has noted now that it's a dual professional, after his "research" It's listed as 1947. Did they make them that far back? I thought it was 1949 when the first ones came out, with the square type pickup. Oh well, someone will get a good guitar 
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 9 May 2007 12:50 am
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Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 9 May 2007 2:38 am
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I have so much to learn about Fenders. I always thought it was cut and dry, traps Custom, boxcar Professional. Lighten up Marty.
Ron |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 9 May 2007 3:38 am
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Just bustin' your chops, Ron.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 9 May 2007 3:47 am
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Looking at the case, I'd say it's an earlier one, though not having boxcar pickups. My 1952 Dual Professional has the leather-bound case, whereas my 1950 Custom has the plain edge case like this one.
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 May 2007 7:16 am
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The first year for Dual 8 Pros was 1946, with the boxcar pickups.
There's a picture in "Fender - The Sound Heard Round The World" of Noel Boggs playing the first one on July 3, 1946.
By 49 it was all trapezoids.
This 47 was my first steel:
Rick Aiello has a Dual 8 Pro with a boxcar on one neck and a trapezoid on the other! |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 May 2007 8:07 am
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and never mind what the fellers are saying Ron - at least it keeps you off the street and out of trouble . .  |
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