Fender Champion Lap Steel Electric Guitar (mid 1950s)
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Item #520
Fender Champion Model Lap Steel Electric Guitar, c. mid 1950s, made in USA, laminated yellow MOT pearloid finish, one piece wood body with aluminum overlay fingerboard, red plush lined tweed original hard shell case.
A very clean example of Fender's "bread and butter" lap steel guitar from the 1950s. Though designed as a student instrument, the Champion Steel is a great-sounding guitar fully suited to professional use then or now, with a Telecaster style flat pole pickup fully equivalent in sound to the legendary 1950s Teles.
Symmetrical plastic-covered two-bout body; domed knobs with medium knurl. The serial number "8755" is stamped below the bridge on the bridge plate. Strings anchored through body. Dot and diamond marker on the metal fingerboard plate.
Headstock has Kluson strip tuners, single stripe no name, and white plastic buttons. Peghead narrows towards the top and is stamped with a lightning bolt logo and the words "Fender Electric Instrument Co. Fullerton, California". Green felt on back, much of which is missing.
Nice examples of the Champ are increasingly harder to find, as many have been sacrificed to provide pickups for Telecaster recreations over the years.
Overall length is 29.75 in. (75.6 cm.), 7.5 in. (19 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1.75 in. (4.4 cm.) deep. Scale length is 20.5 in. (521 mm.).
Extremely fine condition overall. The chrome and plastic are shiny and virtually new looking, aside from slight shrinkage to the tuner buttons and loss of the green powdered felt from the back of the instrument (more likely from faulty gluing than wear) this guitar is truly near mint condition. Original tweed case is also in amazingly near mint condition, and includes keys in envelope, old pitch pipe and old (original?) cable.
A very clean example of Fender's "bread and butter" lap steel guitar from the 1950s. Though designed as a student instrument, the Champion Steel is a great-sounding guitar fully suited to professional use then or now, with a Telecaster style flat pole pickup fully equivalent in sound to the legendary 1950s Teles.
Symmetrical plastic-covered two-bout body; domed knobs with medium knurl. The serial number "8755" is stamped below the bridge on the bridge plate. Strings anchored through body. Dot and diamond marker on the metal fingerboard plate.
Headstock has Kluson strip tuners, single stripe no name, and white plastic buttons. Peghead narrows towards the top and is stamped with a lightning bolt logo and the words "Fender Electric Instrument Co. Fullerton, California". Green felt on back, much of which is missing.
Nice examples of the Champ are increasingly harder to find, as many have been sacrificed to provide pickups for Telecaster recreations over the years.
Overall length is 29.75 in. (75.6 cm.), 7.5 in. (19 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1.75 in. (4.4 cm.) deep. Scale length is 20.5 in. (521 mm.).
Extremely fine condition overall. The chrome and plastic are shiny and virtually new looking, aside from slight shrinkage to the tuner buttons and loss of the green powdered felt from the back of the instrument (more likely from faulty gluing than wear) this guitar is truly near mint condition. Original tweed case is also in amazingly near mint condition, and includes keys in envelope, old pitch pipe and old (original?) cable.
