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Topic: Fender Champ question |
Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 6:54 pm |
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I've got a 54' Champion not a champ but mine looks like it had some kinda backing on it at one time and simply wore off but this one is so shiny on the back. Good question.
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55' Fender Stringmaster T8, 54' Fender Champion, Carter D-10, two Oahu laps, two National laps, and two Resonators
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 7:04 pm
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The Champion models had felt on the backs. The Champ models didn't.
That's an exceptionally clean pair; anybody want to guess how much they'll go for?
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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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Russ Young
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 7:41 pm
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| I suspect the scratched-in Social Security number may offset the "$500" hang tag ... |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 11:06 am
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| The amp is probably a good chunk of the selling price. Victoria is gettin @ $800 for their reissue of that amp. |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 12:25 pm
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Why did all of the older steel guitars come with a dobro style bar? I have dobro style bar that has "Fender StringMaster" stamped into it. The stamp impression is hard chromed over so it is an original stamp.
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(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 2:37 pm
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| That dobro style bar was for the player to choose to have a wider or narrow string spacing.Back then they were offered at an option at no extra charge. |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 4:47 pm
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For you guys in the know, how authentic is E-bays - "private listing - bidders' identities protected"
Without information this could be a little hokey pokey? Or is it just the way it is done?
If I were a potential purchaser, would I have a reason to be paranoid?
Just searching for the truth.
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 7:39 pm
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Don
I didnt suggest Ron to buy it, I only explained that the model had that as an option. I dont do e bay. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 29 Sep 2005 12:59 pm
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For those who are interested, this Fender Champ lap steel and amplifier sold for:
$3,045.00
Wow.
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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 29 Sep 2005 2:33 pm
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I'm actually not all that blown away by the price. When you consider the whole package-and except for some dings on the case and the guy's SS# etched in-the collection looks like it was tucked away into a time capsule for almost 50 years.
For a collector something this clean doesn't come along but about once every 10 years.
It looks like the original owner gave learning the thing a token shot then gave up on it and it spent an awful long time in a closet, never to come out again 'til now.
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Mark
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