Fender PS-210 mechanical description Pt1 & Pt2

[Basil Henriques]

And the parts of the changer..

[Basil Henriques]

[bob adams]

You promised me btw !?!....... you would play this 'hernia' and let us hear it! ..........

Instantly tuneable it may be, but not it seems so instantly playable! Come on Basil! for goodness sake I’m Gaggin!!!!

hello anybody in!

[Basil Henriques]

I will when I've finished the latest issue of the magazine and strung up the guitar and set it up with my tunings, I had it C6th and E9th when I took it to the Cambridgeshire gig. I need to change it for my A7th and E6th tunings. Soon, I promise, time is at such a premium and it marches on regardless, 67 and I feel 16..

[bob adams]

Too much! ....I say! ....too much information!.... 19.... I can cope with with but 16 is taken it under the wire! you'll get us all arrested ...

sleep well auld yin!

[Zebedee]

It's amazing how much Fender must have spent on tooling, and then only made a handful of instruments.

If I understand the video correctly, it looks like the aprons are an extrusion, and tooling for that doesn't come cheap, unless it's a standard 'off the shelf' extrusion.

[Basil Henriques]

Zebedee, you are quite correct, the tooling cost a packet according to some ex Fender employees. The extrusion dies and the moulds for the end-plates alone must have cost upwards of $75.000 and the stampings of the various plate sections are from dies that can handle EN34 and then the metalwork was case hardened to a depth of at least 0.015"
(Probably Sodium Cyanide @ 940c) The pedals were die-cast from special moulds, all in all a very expensive process to produce just 15 guitars, of which only six have their whereabouts known. Probably none is in better shape than mine.
I'm a lucky SOB, but then again I've got a collection of Fender steels that is unique.

NOW for some fun and LAUGHS,
go to the YouTube video listed here, and firstly click on the YouTube logo, and then follow THESE instructions:-

I wonder what the transcription service would make of Zumbilly or Bob Adams ?

[Zebedee]

It's all becoming clear now

That's not a pedal steel, it's an Enigma machine

From Wikipedia:

'An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages'.

[bob adams]

Ha! The transcription service wouldn’t get past go Baz! Can you just imagine ?!?
The principals are outstanding on this machine but as you say convoluted to get perfect pitch, although once there I would imagine it stays!
Great video set btw! Still ain’t heard it played mind!

[Basil Henriques]

Yesterday I actually got 'round to re-recording Country Startime on the PS-210