1955 fender champion lap steel mod#
1955 fender champion lap steel serial#

Drum kit, drums in the Studio on a beautiful background.Clearly, it's been modified heavily, but a lot of the parts that the eyeballs catch are 'period' if not correct. Pickups: 1x Seymour Duncan Lil '59 Strat-sizedД¬ondition notes: the pearloid has damage along the sides but looks good from the front and 'player's perspective.' The aluminum 'fretboard' has tons of neat wear on it - as does the back of the instrument.

Repairs included: modding to fit unoriginal parts, new wiring harness, new pickup, new jack, new knobs, etc. Fender Japan DX-8 8-Strings Lap Steel Guitar w/Hardcase. It's currently in open E tuning (EBEG#BE low to high). Amazing Vintage 1955 Fender Champion Lap Steel Guitar All Original In org Case. There's an open, non-used hole that would have been for the jack on the later Champ control plate, though it's now filled with the smiling face of a lady pulled off of an old cigar box.ДЄ new jack-cup and Switchcraft jack finishes-off the harness and the knobs are modern, relic'd, dome-style ones. The tone pot is a little stickier and farther away to keep it from being nudged too much. I wired the new harness to suit, too, with the volume control a fast-rotating pot that's nearest the bridge and pickup for easy swells. The adjustable poles also let you dial-in balanced string output which I find a huge boon. Played clean it can get some great country chime but dug-in and pushed it'll do dirty blues and rock right away. Said new pickup is a Duncan Lil '59 and it sounds superb on this lap steel.

1955 fender champion lap steel serial#

Bridge serial dates it to 1952-1953.I wonвЂ™t bla. Same parts that Keef has on his number one telecaster One of the few that hasnвЂ™t been robbed for a telecaster yet.Tuners and a capacitor have been replaced, some paint flaking on the bridge side of the body.

1955 Fender Studio Deluxe Lap Steel with Stainless Steel Legs - Guitar Vintners. This is specifically because he wanted to use a height-adjustable pickup in a mount that could be palm-muted without the integral pickup cover like on the earlier Champ plates. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Original pots, pickup, bridge and knobs. Replaced the 'Champion' Lap Steel in 1956, and ran through the end of the '70s. This is an earlier-'50s Champ body that came with its tuners, tuner plate, and 'fretboard.' The owner bought the later-style bridge/control plate and I routed the body and cut the pickguard to accept it. Played clean it can get some great country chime but dug-in and pushed itll do dirty blues and rock right away. Said new pickup is a Duncan Lil 59 and it sounds superb on this lap steel. The rest is as per the original blog post. 1950s Fender Champion Mix-Mash Lap Steel (Part 2).

There's another T8 listed there now, a 24,5' scale, with the BIN price set at 1,950. I was gonna sell mine for 1200.00 a few weeks ago. This T8 in excellent condition just went for 2,554.54 on E-Bay. It can easily be restrung for 3x2 setup again, though, as the saddle and nut are slotted to accept that arrangement if desired. Topic: 1955 Fender Stringmaster Triple Neck. That was it, though - it didn't need anything else because I'd already done the rest.

He's been buying some expensive gear, lately, so this lap steel is back here for sale and I did restring it 'as-normal' this time around.

1955 fender champion lap steel mod#

I originally whipped this up for its owner back in 2019 as a 3x2-strung instrument, but at the time I'd decided to make it an 'easy-back' mod so that it could be restrung back to 6x1 'normal' stringing.