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Topic: What is this Fender? |
Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 3:35 pm |
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Fender lap steel on eBay.
What model is this and is it a refinish?
Ron
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 3:40 pm
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 3:42 pm
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Initial gut reaction:
That looks like it could be one of the brand new, made-in-China Fenders that has been getting mixed reviews, weighing toward the negative, here on the Forum.
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Rick Alexander
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Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 5:27 pm
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I bought one - it's a dog. You'd be better off getting an Artisan. Artisans have legs now and you could buy 5 of them for the price of the Fender.
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Gary Boyett
From:
Colorado/ Lives in Arizona
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 7:35 pm
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| I just bought one of the Artisians. It will go in the bathroom right next to the magazine rack for those private practice sessions! NO REVERB REQUIRED! |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 7:43 pm
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I'll shoot both of you cats  |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 8:26 pm
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My steel guitar friend and I played the new Fender lap steel at the local Guitar Center.
We both came away feeling the same way.
I was always taught that if you couldn't say anything good at all, then don't say it.
So, I'm not saying anything.
Aloha,
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2005 6:26 am
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So Sad!!!! I am stuck with one....I wish someone would make me an offer on mine. How could Fender ever allow a dog like this to be sold to the public???
I have 2 musician friends that I let borrow my cheap Artisan lap to see if they wanted to try & learn to play steel...they both are playing now & own lap steels. I wonder if they would be playing now if the 1st lap they had touched would have been this Fender.
Sad.....so sad!!!
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'49 & '51 National Dynamics, Harmos Model One, Lazy River Weissenborn, Mesa Boogie DC-3, SRV Strat.
http://community.webshots.com/user/keefriff
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 2 Nov 2005 12:02 pm
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Terry,
I doubt that they would have much problem starting on a Fender FS-52 lap steel as opposed to the Artisan.
As I've said before, these are okay lap steels, certainly not as bad as some people like to make them out to be. The biggest problem I had with playing one was the mirrored finish fretboard, which reflects your hand position back to you.
I think the disappointment comes from the fact that it has FENDER on the head. If it had BRAD on the head, perhaps people wouldn't be giving this model such a hard time.
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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Nov 2005 12:09 pm
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Since it has a regular single coil pickup, wouldn't it be fairly easy to simple replace it with something beefier, like a Duncan Little '59, or even better,- a Lollar?
Would that be enough to 'save' it?
Steinar
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Terry VunCannon
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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2005 2:49 pm
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Brad...You must have played a really good one, because this thing is a D-O-G!!!
Steinar...That is not a bad thought...I would love to put the same pickup that is in my Harmos...I just can't stand the thought of having to spend money on this thing when it should kick butt as is. FENDER...are you listening????
I have even thought of taking the pickup out of the Artisan.
Hmmmmmmm....a Lollar....
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'49 & '51 National Dynamics, Harmos Model One, Lazy River Weissenborn, Mesa Boogie DC-3, SRV Strat.
http://community.webshots.com/user/keefriff
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 2 Nov 2005 5:14 pm
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No one should have to buy one of these things then spend good money on a superior pickup, and then if you don't do your own work, have to pay a guitar guy to do it.
If Fender did this whole thing carefully and re-introduced a quality line of say 3 models of non-pedal steels, got some quality players to endorse and demo them-I'll bet it would be a profitable venture.
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 2 Nov 2005 6:59 pm
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I know Joey, I read all that stuff too-but I needed to get my two cents in.
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