1960's Fender Steel

Pete Storms · Post by **Pete Storms** » 5 Nov 2003 1:40 pm

Howdy Folks;

Does anybody know what a 1960's Fender D10 is worth? It has 11 pedals, 3 knees, sunburst finish, heavy steel or iron frame around the top.
I came across this in a local pawnshop and they are asking $999.95. What's a fair market price for this?

Thanks;
Pete

Jody Carver · Post by **Jody Carver** » 5 Nov 2003 1:58 pm

Pete
You are more than likely looking at a 2000 model, So far as cost,I would guess you are getting a great deal,,If you dont want it,I'll buy it

edited to add,,,,the knee levers are an after thought.Fender did not offer knee levers. Forum member Carl West a former Fender employee has something similar,,Carl,,you listening??[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 05 November 2003 at 02:00 PM.]

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 5 Nov 2003 7:16 pm

According to The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide, $1,000 is top dollar for one of these. Unless it's really "mint", a more realistic actual value would be $750. I can almost guarantee you the pawn shop has no more than $250 in it! (Normally, they only offer you 20-25% of what an item is actually worth.)

Let your conscience be your guide. It's worth a grand only if your willing to pay it.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 5 Nov 2003 7:28 pm

Donny: Although I never knew his name, I will never forget the pawn shop owner who had just opened the case on a National D-8 for me to see. I was kinda choked up because I knew I would never be able to afford such a masterpiece. I don't know how long I just stared at it and I'm sure there was a small tear in each eye that he noticed.

He asked the other employee: "How much we got in this one ?" I can no longer recall the figure he called back but it was something I could afford and actually had on me. I remember putting it in the back seat of my car and driving away thinking I had just bought the treasure of a lifetime. A heart doesn't forget something like that !!

Regards, Paul

Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 5 Nov 2003 8:00 pm

Paul..........isn't that sorta like stealing from a blind man?? Is the guilt still with you? (I'm only joking!)

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 6 Nov 2003 6:51 am

I have to go a long with Donny on this one. I believe it is over priced by several hundred dollars.

It is true most of us, who played during those incredible years in the evolution of the PSG, had a Fender. But the facts still remain; that for most, it simply does not fulfill what we want today.

Yes, Ralph Mooney and others had a signature sound on it. But unlike the non-pedal steel; where Fender is the significant leader in the past and now; such is not the case with their PSG. There are simply things it cannot "come up to snuff" with for most players.

This is the reason a Fender D-8 non-pedal steel can often go for 3 and 4 times or more than a Fender D-10 PSG of that era.

It just does not have "the" sound most want today. And in the end its the sound bubba, it be tha sound.

carl