Subject: Re: Tweed Deluxe chassis dimensions
Date: 27 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT
From: Lee MacMillan
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.amps

6L6 wrote:
>
> > > >>> Can someone give me the dimensions of a Fender tweed Deluxe chassis?
> > >
> > > >>The 1955 narrow panel deluxes were 16 1/2 x 18 x 8 3/4. In 1956 they
> > > >>went to 16 3/4 x 20 x 9 1/2. See the Teagle/Sprung book at 44.
> > >
> > > >Those sound like the cabinet dimensions, not the chassis dimensions
>
> oops . . .
Chassis dims are 14 7/16 x 4 1/16 x 2 1/16 for the 5E3 (thanks to 50D
for the info.)

Lee

Indiana’s best equipped hack guitar player.
Subject: Re: Tweed Deluxe chassis dimensions
Date: 26 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT
From: Lee MacMillan
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
To: Karl LaFong
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.amps

Karl LaFong wrote:
>
> $$rfrie–(at)–etcom.com (Robert Fries) wrote:
>
> >6L6 wrote:
>
> >>Lee MacMillan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Can someone give me the dimensions of a Fender tweed Deluxe chassis?
>
> >>The 1955 narrow panel deluxes were 16 1/2 x 18 x 8 3/4. In 1956 they
> >>went to 16 3/4 x 20 x 9 1/2. See the Teagle/Sprung book at 44.
>
> >Those sound like the cabinet dimensions, not the chassis dimensions.
>
> >RF
>
> A tweed deluxe (narrow panel) has mounting centers of 13 1/2″. Chassis
> itself is 15″ long I think.

Thanks. That helps.

Lee

Indiana’s best equipped hack guitar player.

 

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