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Topic: Did champions come painted? |
Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 6 Mar 2005 8:13 am |
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The early (ca. 1949) Champions had a painted blond finish, according to Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars. Too bad this doesn't have the original pickup!
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 6 Mar 2005 8:49 am
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sigh... another victim of p'up cannibalization. Hopefully, it rests now in a Tele that's seeing a lot of play time!
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John Dahms
From:
Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2005 4:12 pm
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| What a shame. Lets hope this happened a long time ago. This one was gone through pretty good. Not only the rout job and pickup, but the milled jack cup has been replaced with a stamped one, the screwa should be flat head not Phillips, the knobs look too domed for one that early and it looks like the fingerboard may be a repaint (big dots). Whoever pulled the pickup to put it in a Tele would have had to rig a way to hold it in, they are mounted differently. Oh well, a darned shame. |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 6 Mar 2005 10:54 pm
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| Last I heard of cannibals was over 100 years ago in Fiji. I guess some are still around ! |
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