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Topic: Fender Deluxe 10 - how common an instrument ? |
Robert Colvert
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2010 4:19 pm |
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| My friend has a Fender Deluxe 10 (just like the 8, but with 10 strings). How common were these instruments & what would their value be? Are there any out there ? Thx |
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Bob Tuttle
From:
Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 29 Jan 2010 4:51 pm
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| I've never heard of Fender building any non-pedal steel with more than eight strings. |
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Robert Colvert
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2010 4:54 pm
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| He plays professionally & thinks this was a "one off" instrument that someone @ Fender put together. I have never seen a 10 string model either. |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 1:30 am
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| Can you post a pic? I've never seen or heard of one either. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 9:04 am
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| I tend to believe that this must be an after market guitar. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 10:05 am
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Without seeing photos of the instrument in question, it sounds to me like he has a Fender 800 pedal steel with the pedals removed. The only ten string steel guitars in the Fender product line were the Artist (single or double neck), Student, PS210, 800 (single neck) and 2000 (double neck) pedal steels.
Photos, please.
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 5:20 pm
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Deluxe 10 - no such animal. I wish there were though. Closest thing would be the SS Hawaiian put out by Ricky Davis out of Austin. Less than a handful were ever built.
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Robert Colvert
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 7:32 pm
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| I'll take a pic in the next week & post so we all can see it. Stay tuned & thx |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Dave Bader
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2010 7:00 am
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Any more info on this guitar? I was hoping to see a picture.  |
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Robert Colvert
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2010 7:09 pm photos of the Fender Dexlue 10
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Here are the photos of the Fender D10. Anybody else have one or seen one?
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2010 7:48 pm
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| True Fender or not, somebody has themself a very cool guitar! |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 26 Feb 2010 8:07 pm
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| Does it use parts from a Fender D10 Pedal Steel ? |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 26 Feb 2010 8:16 pm
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It's a neck from a multineck Stringmaster. The Diamond shaped plates are covering the holes for the bolts that secure the necks together. The single neck models never had those cover plates.
The complete bridge and pickup plate is suspect as there is no provision for tone and volume controls. Also the bridge is non Stringmaster and placed too far from the pickups.
How are the strings secured ? Looks like "Through the Body" 
Lovely Guitar, but I fear it's like Johnny Cash's car ... It was "Liberated one piece at a time"
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 26 Feb 2010 8:25 pm
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The Fender 10 string fretboards from the 800 and 2000 had 4 marker blocks after the 24th fret..on this guitar the fretboard is from an 8 string guitar, and had someone at Fender cobbled it together in their spare time, they SURELY would have managed to "Beg steal or borrow" a 10 string fretboard.
Se these 10 string Fenders..and check out the components.. http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=174953&
On this guitar, the strings at the Nut end are evenly spaced across the 8 STRING fretboard, notice the lack of asymmetry with the nut ends and the tuner pan mounting screws..on a true Fender the nut ends would be level with the outside two mounting screws.
The tuner pan is from a Fender 800 or 2000.
AND Fender never made a 10 string Stringmaster pickup.
Those pickups HAVE to be 8 string, otherwise why haven't the moulds for the pickup covers and indeed the pickups never seen the light of day before?
Jody Carver will no doubt confirm that there was only ever one INDIVIDUALLY CUSTOMIZED Fender Deluxe or Stringmaster made and that was the Black one they made for Jerry Byrd, and its history is well known and documented. |
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Jonathan Lam
From:
Brooklyn, NY
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Posted 27 Feb 2010 6:04 am
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| Someone also recently asked me about their vintage fender 10 string, which they say has no pedals...They must exist! |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Feb 2010 10:52 am
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| Jonathan Lam wrote: |
| Someone also recently asked me about their vintage fender 10 string, which they say has no pedals...They must exist! |
Yes, if you take the pedals and pedal bar off a Fender 10-string PSG. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Feb 2010 5:42 pm
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| The tuner must have come from a Fender cable model. Wouldn't it be too long to fit into the cavity of a Stringmaster ? |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 28 Feb 2010 6:42 am
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Alan,
By the looks of it, it appears that the cavity was lengthened. The tuner pan is located closer to the end of the guitar than normal. |
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Dave Bader
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2010 5:23 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
Alan,
By the looks of it, it appears that the cavity was lengthened. The tuner pan is located closer to the end of the guitar than normal. |
It doesn't look any closer to the end of the guitar to me but the nut is further away. The fret board looks wider too but I think it's an optical illusion.
I love that thing. Thanks for posting the pictures.
I was just scrolling back and forth between stringmaster pictures and there has been major changes to the control end. The pickups are moved up to the fingerboard and the rear looks much shorter then usual. If it was chopped then wouldn't there be an opening from the control cavity? |
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