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Topic: Fender 400 with 4 pedals |
Daniel J. Cormier
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Lake Charles, LA, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2018 8:34 am |
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I have a Fender 400 serial number 00073 . Anyone out have an Idea what year model it is.
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Rittenberry with Tone to the bone,profex or tubefex and what ever amp, hilton pedal, BJS bars. Email at kajunsteelman@yahoo.com. |
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Dennis Montgomery
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Western Washington
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Posted 7 Jul 2018 9:36 am
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400's are notoriously difficult to date and there's no way to tell from the serial # as Fender re-used them. On rare occasion, you might find a date written on the body under the tuning tub. Another option is to check the date codes on the volume and tone pots, though even those are suspect as Fender bought a huge quantity of 1965 pots and used them for a few years.
Often dating comes to a combination of the pot date codes, style of pedals, scale length, case design and more. Check out the Fender pedal steel facebook group, they're the experts  |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 7 Jul 2018 11:02 am
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I'd guess it's a first year, first run 1958 model, (possibly made in 1957*) and it would have been long scale, polished frame/blond wood model with chrome pedals and black rectangular pickup. It would have had the original short-spring, single raise/lower changer with solid-bar bridge and nut, and rounded pulleys.
*Note: Although Fender "officially" introduced the 400 in 1958, I have no doubt that some were made the year before. |
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Daniel J. Cormier
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Lake Charles, LA, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2018 12:05 pm
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Thanks brother
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Daniel J. Cormier
Rittenberry with Tone to the bone,profex or tubefex and what ever amp, hilton pedal, BJS bars. Email at kajunsteelman@yahoo.com. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2018 7:56 pm
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The serial numbers re not sequential. That could be a '58 or '72 or whatever.
1 meg volume and tone pots were bought in huge quantities and reflect only a few years, making them useless in dating.
As Donny noted construction details are much more important, and penciled-in dates are helpful...but only to date when a body was made, not when the guitar was assembled/sold - and bodies often sat for extended periods.
That being said, they are "player", not "collector" instruments and values from year to year don't really vary.
If you post pictures we might be able to help more.
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Daniel J. Cormier
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Lake Charles, LA, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2018 6:30 am Sold
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Guitar sold on Reverb.com, Going to France this week Please Close
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