#FENDER CHAMPION LAP STEEL PLATE SERIAL NUMBER#

Nice examples of the original style Champ are increasingly harder to find many have been sacrificed over the years to provide electric components for Telecaster recreations. A year or so later the Champ design was altered to a less well regarded design with a smaller plastic-covered pickup that is cleaner and much tamer sounding. All screws re Phillips-head, typical of 1954 Fender production.and the pots date to that the end of year. The peghead is stamped with lighting bolt logo and 'Fender Electric Instrument Co. The headstock has metal facing with integral nut and Kluson Deluxe strip tuners with plastic buttons. The metal fingerboard plate pinned to the body has black paint screening to outline fret positions.

#FENDER CHAMPION LAP STEEL PLATE SERIAL NUMBER#

The serial number '8358' is stamped on the bridgeplate where the strings anchor through the body. The flashy plastic-covered symmetrical two-bout body has a chrome bridge and cover plates with dome-top knurled knobs. Although designed as a student instrument, the Champion Steel is a great-sounding guitar well suited to professional use then or now, with a Broadcaster style flat pole pickup fully equivalent in sound to the legendary 1950's Teles. This is a fine example of Fender's 'bread and butter' lap steel guitar from the first half of the 1950's.

Fender Champ Model Lap Steel Electric Guitar (1954), made in Fullerton, California, serial # 8358, yellow pearloid finish, hardwood body, original tweed hard shell case.

Fender champion lap steel plate