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Post subject: fender lead III
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:44 pm
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I recently purchased a fender lead III (1981).
It seems unusual in that it appears to have come from the factory with a kahler tremelo and lock nut. Is this common - I cant find any reference to this set up.
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Post subject: Re: fender lead III
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:20 pm
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gordop wrote:
I recently purchased a fender lead III (1981).
It seems unusual in that it appears to have come from the factory with a kahler tremelo and lock nut. Is this common - I cant find any reference to this set up.
thanks


No, I'm 99.9% sure that Fender never used Kahler bridges back then - at least on anything available to the general public. The guitar was modded somewhere along the way but it sounds like whomever did the work did a very clean job of it. I guess it is also possible the guitar was built by an employee for their own use, or maybe it was a prototype since Kahlers came out in 1982. Also even though your Lead III may have an E1XXXXX serial number it is likely a 1982 guitar if you were to take it apart and check the dates on the neck or body - I can't recall seeing anything about the Lead III until the winter of 1982.

Fender did use some other Kahler trems one some models, but that was toward the end of the 80s after CBS had sold the company to FMIC. Leads were strictly CBS-era models made from the fall of 1979 (mine is a fall '79 Lead II) through the end of 1982.

Please post some photos of your Lead III; I would love to see one with a Kahler trem.


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