Checkerboard Erosion!

heinpete · Post by **heinpete** » Fri Nov 22, 2013 3:14 am

... a Rick domaine is attacked

: Fender goes Checkerboard!!!

...or did Paul move over to the other side!

jps · Post by **jps** » Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:25 am

Fender was using checker binding in the '60s! On some acoustic guitars and a few special Teles.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Fri Nov 22, 2013 12:19 pm

Not very surprising, since the person who designed Fender's first acoustics was Roger Rossmeisl.

http://www.fender.com/news/fender-acoustic-instruments/

jps · Post by **jps** » Fri Nov 22, 2013 12:35 pm

Roger was also responsible for some Fenders with a German carve on them.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:48 am

jps wrote:Roger was also responsible for some Fenders with a German carve on them.

Which Fender had a German carve?

deaconblues · Post by **deaconblues** » Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:52 am

ilan wrote:
jps wrote:Roger was also responsible for some Fenders with a German carve on them.
Which Fender had a German carve?

The LTD, for one.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:36 pm

Right. Completely forgot about that one.

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