
- #Fender champ lap steel serial numbers serial numbers#
- #Fender champ lap steel serial numbers manuals#
- #Fender champ lap steel serial numbers manual#
Gibson Console Grand High Steel Electric Guitar (1940) Guitar. Look at the wear on the knob and you know why it was changed.


Work for smaller size mounts, Stringmaster and Champ are examples. ! 3 – Become a Versatile Guitar Player The Fender FS-52 Lap Steel is a modern made lap steel guitar, one of the only models currently offered by Fender. Here we’re looking at a Fender Champ lap steel in original condition, with its original brown Tolex hard shell case, its bridge cover and a period steel. Explore Randy Sexton's board "Lap Steel" on Pinterest. Galveston Lapsteel Electric Guitar 6 String. 99 Throughout the thirties, others produced lap steels and the designs further evolved.

USA Patent Fender Guitar Pick up & Circuit 1950's Drawings. kluson® has reproduced the fender® champion® tuning machine plate. I also use the same tunings on my straight steels as well.3 Prong AC Cord. I know only 8 strings per neck limits the capabilities of many players, but speaking for myself, I haven't come close to mastering 6 strings. In my opinion, this is the sweetest, user friendly, foolproof and dependable pedal steel of the era. The 1000 model I now have (for the last 17 years), was built in January, 1964 and has a 23 inch scale, thus little or no string breakage. I've owned 4 of them in the past 35 years. I really enjoy topics regarding the Fender cable model steels. My 1000 is set up in an "abbreviated" E9/C6 arrangement, with pedals as knee levers. Not being a knowledgable theory guy, I'm not sure what the differing concepts were - I've only tried the 400 A6 setup.
#Fender champ lap steel serial numbers manuals#
The manuals for 1000 and 400 oddly have the same A6 tuning (one one neck of the 1000, the other being E7 as I recall) but completely different copedents. later pickup design and roller bridge and nut. Only seen a couple of these, and only on 400's.ģ. A transitional model with the flat, wide pickup, roller bridge and nut (I think late '62 and early '63). I owned a 1000 8-string 8-pedal with "cable-pull" that I bought in '58 or '59, can't remember exactly but it was before 1960.ġ000 - two necks, 8 strings each, 8-10 pedals.Ģ000 - two necks, 10 strings each, I believe 10 or 11 pedals were the options.Ģ. The 800 (10-string model, introduced in 1964) came with 6 pedals standard, and could be special ordered with up to 11 pedals.Įarly 400's (pre-1964) came with stamped-steel pedals, a solid rod bridge, and no roller nut. The 400 (8-string model), came standard with 4 pedals, but could be special ordered with up to 10 pedals. John, there was no "Fender 600" pedal steel. If it had 6 pedals from the factory (mod 600). Never cared about serial numbers,although i now do. i did not know what a pedal steel guitar was back then. the stock tuning was "A6 top neck and C6 bottom neck". My first pedal steel guitar was a fender 2000 cable model. It is possible that someone added 2 pedals to an original 400. I bought a fender400 (4 pedals)in 1960 and another in 1961. If it had 6 pedals from the factory (mod 800), I think it would have been manufactured after 1961. It's not good for Nashville country, but it's a good western swing setup. The A6 tuning and 400 copedent is actually pretty cool to mess around with. you can see the difference in the guitar styles, though.
#Fender champ lap steel serial numbers manual#
There's also a manual for the earlier-style 1000, with the same A6 tuning on one neck but a different copedent. We'd need some more details such as bridge type (bar or moving-finger) and pickup (flat and wide like a Fender Jazzmaster or more like a Fender Jaguar) to pin it down to styles - and codes from the potentiometers would be the closest thing to a dating system.įWIW If you go to the Fender site the manual for the newer-type models is downloadable, and has the copedent in it.
#Fender champ lap steel serial numbers serial numbers#
The serial numbers don't seem to be year-related. My question is what year is it, and what would have been the copedant from the factory? A knee lever has been added by someone using a door hinge but its kind of a neat old guitar. Your profile | join | preferences | help | searchĪ local music store acquired an old Fender 8 pedal 8 string Pedal Steel Guitar.

Classic country shuffle styles for Band-in-a-Box, by BIAB guru Jim Baron.
