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Topic: Is there a Deluxe Champ???? |
Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2008 2:35 pm |
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I contacted the owner thinking his guitar was a neck from a double or triple. He swears it's a rare "Deluxe Champ". Did Fender ever make this? If so, it's a new one to me. I even thought it's refinished.
Link to auction on eBay.
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John Dahms
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Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2008 2:55 pm
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Looks like a second series Deluxe in 6 string version to me. As for the "rare mahogany" body, I can't say by the pictures. I expect the term "Deluxe Champ" is some off-hand designation because it is a six string but Fender never called them anything but Deluxe as far as I know regardless of the number of strings. Probably a nice guitar with the trap pickup and all but not some super rare museum piece as I see it.
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Doug Freeman
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Los Angeles, CA
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Posted 17 Sep 2008 3:34 pm
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| I wondered about this one, too. And as if we really need an eBay seller's unsolicited hardball assessment of the vintage guitar market, essentially condoning the rape-ability of guitars like this with interchangeable parts. Next seller, please. |
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Jon Nygren
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2008 7:41 am
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Looks like a walnut deluxe 6 to me, nothing more. I had to laugh at the 'rare mahogany finish' line...please. Tons of walnut finished fender steels floating around.
I hope it gets sold for 100 bucks. Hopefully someone gets it out of his grubby hands, restores it and plays it. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 18 Sep 2008 7:51 am
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It's a Fender Deluxe 6 with a walnut finish. These were made this way between 1950 and 1956 according to Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars. I owned a Dual 8 Professional with that same finish a while back.
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