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Topic: i am trying to date this/newly aquired |
John Brock
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Xenia, Ohio
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Posted 7 Jan 2015 6:49 pm |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Willis Vanderberg
From:
Petoskey Mi
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Posted 8 Jan 2015 2:39 am
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| The next time you change strings pull the tuner pan,there should be a date written in pencil under there. |
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John Brock
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Xenia, Ohio
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Posted 9 Jan 2015 3:50 pm fender lap
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thanks bOb and willis...(should have put this elsewhere on the site but it didn't hit me till later bOb). u can close it. THX!!!!
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 9:40 am
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1960's... grade school years... Fender Catalog... other kids wanted a new bicycle....I longed for that thing in Sunburst... But white would have been just fine.
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 10:36 am
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| If that's a brown Tolex case (not completely sure it's not tweed from the picture), they typically date out 1959-61. Tweed is older, assuming the guitar came with the case. I agree the guitar looks 60's-ish, with the case suggesting very early 60's. But the pencil under the pan don't lie! |
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Ricky Davis
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Bertram, Texas USA
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 12:55 pm
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From a 1954 Fender catalog:
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 1:43 pm
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I bought my brand new Fender "Champ" in 1961. It came with a brown Tolex case.
Last edited by Jerry Berger on 12 Jan 2015 9:35 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 1:50 pm
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Never saw a Fender guitar in a brown Tolex case I didn't like! Still have my P-Bass.
Wish I still had my Strat. And my stack-knob Jazz Bass. Sigh. |
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 3:39 pm
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| Seems to me some tweed-era Fender cases were covered with a smooth leatherette material darker than the regular tweed linen,and John's case looks like one of those.If the case is original to the guitar,I'd say '57-'59. |
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 4:22 pm
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| There's currently a brown case stringmaster for sale with a pencil date of '63. Later than I've seen, but I'm sure Leo never threw anything away. |
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Stephen Cowell
From:
Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 8:57 pm
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| Seems to me some tweed-era Fender cases were covered with a smooth leatherette material darker than the regular tweed linen,and John's case looks like one of those.If the case is original to the guitar,I'd say '57-'59. |
+1 on mid-late '50s... the case is linen, not brown tolex. Pull the plate, the pots will have date codes.
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 10:45 pm
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| Wrong pickup and knobs to be very early. |
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 15 Jan 2015 11:29 am
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Jerry Berger... Do you remember how much you paid for that beauty?
Thanks in advance for the info and regards.
(envy envy envy  )
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