Possible Vintage Fender guitar?
April 27, 2010 | vintage fender guitar
i was at a store and saw a fender acoustic for sale. the man said that it was from the 1950s and claimed he checked the Serial #. the S# is 95031185. I checked the fender website but there is only dating for electric guitars. Can anyone help?
If you believe the guy below, its his opinion. I know about electric fenders, not having heard much about the acoustics (probably for good reason). I tend to agree with what this guy has to say.
Fender basically took the design principles that made their electric guitar models famous, and applied them to their acoustic flat top guitar models. Unfortunately, this made for bad sounding and horrible looking flat tops. Fender flat tops have no vintage collectibility. The Wildwood and Brazilian rosewood models are visually interesting and cool to look at (especially the funky colored Wildwoods), but have no real vintage value. Fender acoustics are a footnote in Fender's history. A lot of people ask about them because they are readily available for a cheap price. Hence I created this web page.
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2 Responses to “Possible Vintage Fender guitar?”
If you believe the guy below, its his opinion. I know about electric fenders, not having heard much about the acoustics (probably for good reason). I tend to agree with what this guy has to say.
Fender basically took the design principles that made their electric guitar models famous, and applied them to their acoustic flat top guitar models. Unfortunately, this made for bad sounding and horrible looking flat tops. Fender flat tops have no vintage collectibility. The Wildwood and Brazilian rosewood models are visually interesting and cool to look at (especially the funky colored Wildwoods), but have no real vintage value. Fender acoustics are a footnote in Fender’s history. A lot of people ask about them because they are readily available for a cheap price. Hence I created this web page.
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http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fender3.html
By Annie on Jun 26, 2009
there’s a reason for that, and here it is, Fender made horrible acoustic guitars back then and still does to this day, so documenting them wasn’t an issue as with the Gibsons,Martins,Guilds and the likes in the acoustic guitar world, they just weren’t interested in keeping track of them, however the Strats were well documented cause that was there bread and butter and still is, now if you were to find a 59 Strat without a penciled in date on the neck under the joint we know it’s most likely real, and if it had profanity penciled in instead of a date we know it’s really real and worth a ton of money, as of 61 they started using a stamp. just some Fender trivia
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By BUSTER BENDEM on Jun 26, 2009