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Post subject: Early fender
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:19 pm
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I have and old fender newporter that has patant pending. Made in Santa Ana, Ca. I thought fender started in fullerton, ca.


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Post subject: Re: Early fender
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:20 am
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Fender did start in Fullerton in the 1950s. The Newporter was part of a line of guitars that launched in the mid-1960s by then Fender likely had additional manufacturing facilities.

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Post subject: Re: Early fender
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:17 pm
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well I'm wondering if I have a newporter neck on an older body because the serial on the body is 11605. thats the # on the plate anyway, which comes up as 1956. thanks for your reply, and any future replies.

Alvaro


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Post subject: Re: Early fender
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:58 am
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Hey Alvaro,
I knew I'd seen a site that addressed some of your questions. Took me a couple days to find it again. See if this link doesn't fill in some gaps for you.

http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender3.html#newporter

Cheers and happy hunting!

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What I play:
Larrivee OM-03MH
2011 Fender CD-220SCE
1979 or '80 Fender F-35 (date has been hard to pin down)
Samick Greg Bennett D-2


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Post subject: Re: Early fender
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:07 am
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Thanks again. Guess I just keep wanting it to be something that it is not.

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