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Topic: The "New" Fender Deluxe 8 (caution..big pictures) |
Hal Braun
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Eustis, Florida, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2011 8:52 am |
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Well, just received yesterday off the UPS truck at 5 degrees.. I had to let it sit for 40 minutes to reach even close to room temperature (you want to know how much patience that took??)
Purchased from Les here on the forum, (highly recommended.. under promised, over delivered...) I took it apart, cleaned, polished, lubed, new strings, set up.. and WOW.. ok, now I get it! Born in August of 1960.. this 51 year old honey is amazing.
Took it down to the guitar shop where my friend works and sat it down on an amp, and while we were talking, a guy came up and asked if Fender had started remaking these.. it looks that good. Case is like new, guitar has beautiful checking starting in the deep lacquer finish.. and the tone.. played through a couple of vintage Fenders from the 60's and it sounds "all that". Blend pot works great.. tone know is kind of "off or on", but easy to deal with..
Anyway, without further fuss.. here she is all nice and shiny!
(you can really see the checking starting here.. beautiful!)
Thanks again Les.. she has a good new home!! |
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Hugh Holstein
From:
Rohnert Park, California, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2011 4:43 pm
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| I have a blond one, 68, super tone, stays in tune rock solid. my all time favorite. |
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Jim Behnke
From:
SW USA
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Posted 12 Dec 2011 7:03 pm
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Mine's a '57 blonde, like Gabby's. Wish I could play like him...
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 12 Dec 2011 8:54 pm
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| Very cool Hal, those guitars sound mighty sweet. Any idea what those two holes on the player side at the 16th and 28th frets were drilled for? |
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Hal Braun
From:
Eustis, Florida, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2011 9:47 am
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Evidently the original elderly owner drilled those two holes to mount a cabinet door handle to rest his hand on. I plan on dowelling them up and repairing the finish as those are really the only "defects" per se. Or, I may not  . They don't really affect anything but the looks. |
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Steve Ahola
From:
Concord, California
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Posted 13 Dec 2011 3:28 pm Re: The "New" Fender Deluxe 8 (caution..big pictur
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| Hal Braun wrote: |
Blend pot works great.. tone know is kind of "off or on", but easy to deal with..
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One fix for a tone control that gets too bright way too soon is to check the taper: if it is a linear taper pot replace it with an audio taper pot. Another way of dealing with that is increase the capacitance of the tone cap, either by replacing the cap or soldering a second cap in parallel with the original.
The treble-cut tone control on my 1948 Gibson Century 6 was about as drastic as you could get: it used a 500k reverse audio taper pot and 0.02uF tone cap. To make it usable for me I switched the outer terminals of the tone pot to make it a normal audio taper and soldered a .047uF cap in parallel with the 0.02uF cap.
Collectors would frown on any modifications of any sort (even if completely reversible)- just remelting the original solder would lower the value of a vintage collectable. But vintage lap steels do not command the insanely high prices of regular electric or acoustic guitars so I don't think that we have to worry about that. (I can't understand someone paying a 1/4 million dollars for an cheaply produced electric guitar- I don't think that the 1957 stratocasters were built by luthiers!  )
It looks like you got a really nice steel! BTW you might try filling the holes with wax from a brown candle (or crayon) as a temporary measure which is completely reversible.
Steve Ahola
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Dec 2011 10:09 am
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That one is in great condition !  |
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