#Dating your fender champion lap steel how to#

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#Dating your fender champion lap steel how to#

The original hard shell Fender Tweed case is included, and while it has some stains, itвЂ™s in good shape. FENDER CHAMPION LAP STEEL FORUM HOW TO If you take off the tuner pan, you should be able to find a date of manufacture pencilled in on the wood under it. The metal parts show little to no corrosion, and there isnвЂ™t much wear. ItвЂ™s had some wiring repairs вЂ“ the jack has been replaced and the pots may not be original. This particular Fender Champ Lap Steel is in very clean condition all round. The bottom has a green felt pad, and while it was available in a number of colours, this Desert Sand, or Fawn or Tan, was perhaps the most common. The fingerboard, such as it is, is a screened metal sheet with markings for 29 frets.

Built with a lightly contoured Alder or Ash body, a single pickup mounted on a metal control / bridge plate and a fairly standard six-string tuning set at the head. For example, itвЂ™s the amp Eric Clapton used for much of the Derek and the Dominos вЂ“ Layla album.ДЇender began producing lap steels around 1948, and in 1955 their Champion entry level model was replaced by the simpler Fender Champ lap steel. That amp itself went on to become very popular in some recording studios. The Fender Champ Lap Steel was often sold as part of a starter set, with FenderвЂ™s smallest amplifier вЂ“ the 5 watt Champ. This Champ is a super example of Fender's 'bread and butter' lap steel guitar from the first half of the 1950s.

This Fender Champ Lap Steel, built during 1959 at the Fender plant in Fullerton, California is in very nice, mostly original condition. Fender Champion Model Lap Steel Electric Guitar (1955), made in Fullerton, California, yellow pearloid finish, hardwood body, original brown alligator chipboard case.