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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 24 Mar 2006 11:35 am |
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It has a Fender logo on the headstock and the pickup cover says Fender... but it looks like a Valco body with a mix of home made parts, replacement parts, and some kind of a Fender pickup. CLICK
I notice that the seller has sold a number of guitars, so he should know that this is a cobbled together instrument. Or is it? Maybe I'm wrong?  |
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Les Green
From:
Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Mar 2006 11:55 am
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| Not like any Fender I've ever saw to say the least! |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 24 Mar 2006 12:04 pm
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Last edited by Michael Lee Allen on 28 Feb 2011 3:58 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 24 Mar 2006 6:25 pm
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At least the seller is honest enough to post the four (so far) messages telling him that this isn't a Fender made lap steel. People may certainly bid on it, but they're not going to get a Fender lap steel at the end of the auction.
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 24 Mar 2006 7:46 pm
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From where I'm sitting up here in Saratoga Springs NY I can honestly say "I DONT KNOW" big help eh? What a rare find I am
Worked for Fender for 100 years and I'll be darned if I ever saw anything like that. Ouch |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 24 Mar 2006 8:03 pm
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| I think MLA called it correctly. It's not even completely a Supro type, the pickup is all wrong. Cobbled together from parts. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2006 7:55 am
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| I have seen very strange instruments brought back to the USA from the far, far, east by servicemen. I even had one that sorta looked like a Strat and said Fender in various places. This could be in that category. Even the pickup on that steel has Fender embossed on it! I'll bet it came from the Philippine Islands. [This message was edited by John Billings on 25 March 2006 at 08:11 AM.] |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 25 Mar 2006 3:19 pm
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This is really a coincidence. Yesterday I posted this topic, and today I played a late ’60s Fender Coronado with that same pickup! One of my guitar students brought his dad’s old Coronado to the lesson. Sure enough… same exact pickup. MLA was right. I had never seen a Coronado until today.
It looks like the pickup is the only Fender part on this lap steel. |
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Al Terhune
From:
Newcastle, WA
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Posted 25 Mar 2006 4:55 pm
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I was even more curious to look at the "Magnavox" lap steel he has in another auction (correctly named in the actual auction).
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Mar 2006 9:51 pm
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Curiously, I was about to say at first sight that; the way the bridge is constructed is very remeniscent of my very first guitar in 1948, which was a Supro!!! Actually, I think this is really ‘The Lap’ that steel guitars were made for!
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’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15”
Current Equipment
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