The serial number "501" is stamped on the tuner well and the pots date to the 38th week of 1952. The finish is the same lovely blonde over ash shared with the first Spanish guitars.
The metal fingerboard plate is pinned to the body with black paint screening to outline fret positions this piece is shared with the down-market Champion model. The squared off headstock has a metal well with the tuners mounted laterally and an integral raised flange acting as a nut. This design was intended to give the bass strings a meatier tone while keeping the shimmer of the high noted unaltered. This fancier style was introduced in 1949 with an elaborately sculpted body and Fender's improved "Direct String" pickup with an oblong casing featuring a larger magnet on the bass side. The Deluxe was part of Fender's initial lap steel line in 1946 in a simpler, cruder form. The Deluxe was offered in 6 and 8 string format and set the design tone for the company's expanding line of console steels, which many pro players were then moving to. While not made in anything like the same numbers as the student Champion, this was one of the instruments that fueled the company's early success before the Telecaster was born.
This is a super nice example of Fender's professional grade lap steel guitar from the first half of the 1950s, The Deluxe 6. Fender Deluxe 6 Model Lap Steel Electric Guitar (1952), made in Fullerton, California, serial # 501, Blonde lacquer finish, ash body, original tweed hard shell case.
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