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Topic: What Model Fender is This? |
Bill Bosler
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Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2005 4:57 pm |
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I have to repair a busted tuning key on this guitar that belongs to an old friend who lives at the local retirement community. He bought it about 1950.  |
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John Bechtel
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Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Dec 2005 6:02 pm
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Bill;
It’s a (6)-str. Dual~Pro Fender. It’s very nice, but; for my personal preferences, unforturately it only has (6)-strs. ea.! That’s the ‘only’ reason that it wouldn’t interest me.
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“Big John” Bechtel
’05 D–10 Derby – (6 & 
’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15”
Current Equipment
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 29 Dec 2005 6:38 pm
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| It has also had some radical surgery. That model originally had the string-through trapezoid style Pickups. Someone changed the pickups to the later style string-over pickups. Those bridges are non-original, as well as that middle control plate, I believe. The rest of it looks pretty clean. [This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 29 December 2005 at 08:39 PM.] |
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Bill Bosler
From:
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2005 7:18 pm
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| Thanks for the info. I thought the two toggle switches looked a little aftermarket. |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2005 8:38 am
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Why do we keep seeing so many radical changes on vintage steel guitars? I don't see this on other older instruments.
Anyone ever seen the scroll and tuning pegs taken off a violin and replaced with an aluminum keyhead with Sperzel tuning machines? They would be more accurate; but it isn't done.  |
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John Dahms
From:
Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2005 4:20 pm
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Rick, I'll take a stab at that question. For a long time there was no great market for old steels so they were relatively cheap. To many, cheap means - of little value- hence little repect. No big deal if I change it around to the way I want it. The same thing happened in the late 60s and early 70s to rosewood fingerboard Teles. They were plentiful and cheap. An awful lot of $50 Teles got "modified" along the way. Now they are scarce as hen's teeth.
I'll bet there's nobody cutting up Teles and Stringmasters today (I hope). |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2005 3:19 pm
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There's a lot of validity to what you are saying, John. If the changes made are in good taste and doesn't destroy the aesthetics of the instrument, it's OK (Elton John even plays a red piano). The butchered look is what I was referencing.
I've seen a lot of changes to instruments that have much improved them. And, a lot of it looks bad too. |
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