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Topic: Fender Pedal Guitar ? |
basilh
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United Kingdom
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Jody Carver
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KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 15 Aug 2005 5:22 pm |
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No Way Jose
This never happened..wow  |
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Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2005 6:12 pm
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There is a pedal shown in the case and some kind of hack work done underneath. So, theoretically, it can be called a pedal. Rare, I think not. Whoever added that pedal, really put a damper on the value.
Ron |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 16 Aug 2005 8:34 am
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It looks like someone added their own pedal mechanism to the top neck - you can see a hole in the tuner pan between the sixth and seventh tuners. That's too bad, but it looks like structurally the rest of the guitar is in very good condition. It would be easy to ignore that modification and continue playing this guitar the way Leo Fender intended.
Thanks for sharing!
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 16 Aug 2005 2:08 pm
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| It's a (butchered) CUSTOM double neck. FENDER, (as JODY so rightly indicated) never produced this as a pedal guitar. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2005 9:33 pm
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Nope, it sure looks like a hack.
But interestingly, it's how the first pedal steels WERE "hacked" into existence.
Not that I condone cutting up vintage guitars, but it is sort of unique and it'd be interesting to know the history. |
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 16 Aug 2005 10:28 pm
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Both my Fender D-8 Customs (early '50's) and my Gibson Console Grande (early '50's) have holes in the tuning key area indicating that they each, at some point in time, had pedals ( or 'plungers' as some of the guys called it way back then ) installed.
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