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  • COREY: What do we got here?

  • A custom-built quad Stringmaster guitar.

  • It was built by Leo Fender for my father, Noel Boggs.

  • He was an electric steel guitar player in the '40s, the '50s.

  • Started out with Roy Rogers and Bob Wills' band.

  • COREY: Forgive me, I've never heard of them.

  • It's definitely really cool.

  • I've seen lap steels.

  • I've never seen four like this.

  • I spent about six months as a kid trying to learn

  • how to play a regular guitar.

  • I couldn't imagine trying to play four at the same time.

  • DANIELLE: I'm here at the shop today

  • because I'd like to sell my dad's quad Stringmaster guitar.

  • My father was Noel Boggs, and this guitar

  • was built by he and Leo Fender.

  • Leo Fender was the originator and designer

  • of Fender Electrics, which was and is

  • one of the most prestigious guitar makers in the world.

  • What you have here is real interesting.

  • Leo Fender and your dad basically created this.

  • Is this kind of a one-off thing, or did they actually ever

  • go into production with it?

  • DANIELLE: All of my dad's guitars were one-offs.

  • They were the number one in the very first part of the line.

  • My dad was sort of the token player

  • to see if it was going to work.

  • And I'm sure Leo Fender doing four at the same time--

  • I think you probably need an expert like your dad.

  • It's pretty cool.

  • Rock and roll as we know it would

  • not exist without Leo Fender.

  • He created some of the world's most popular guitars

  • without even knowing how to play them.

  • The fact that he built this himself makes it pretty badass.

  • I just don't know enough to put a price on it.

  • What are you looking to get out of it?

  • $50,000.

  • COREY: OK.

  • This is so far out of my realm, so I'm

  • going to have a friend of mine come down and take a look.

  • He's just going to know a lot more about it than me.

  • Do you mind?

  • DANIELLE: Not a bit.

  • COREY: I will be right back.

  • DANIELLE: I love the idea of an expert coming

  • in to look at this guitar.

  • He'll recognize immediately the value of it

  • and the uniqueness of it.

  • COREY: Check it out.

  • Oh, wow, cool!

  • COREY: I've seen lap steels.

  • I haven't seen one like this before.

  • Not to mention that her father and Leo Fender created it,

  • and I guess it's the first one.

  • JESSE AMOROSO: Who was your dad?

  • DANIELLE: My dad was Noel Boggs.

  • Oh, very, very cool.

  • Especially in country swing and the Western swing stuff,

  • he was kind of the go-to guy, your dad.

  • DANIELLE: Exactly.

  • JESSE AMOROSO: This was the Stringmaster,

  • Fender's top of the line.

  • He probably had a bunch of these at one point, right?

  • He did.

  • And he would go to Leo and say, I'm doing this job,

  • and it needs to have this kind of tuning.

  • JESSE AMOROSO: And I'm sure a guy like your dad

  • probably played multiple tunings in songs.

  • So it was almost a necessity to be able to have the four necks.

  • Leo would sit there and watch my dad play

  • and see how he would work it.

  • Because my dad actually jumped from one

  • neck to the other on the fly.

  • That's really cool.

  • That's neat.

  • Can we set it up?

  • Absolutely, would love it.

  • JESSE AMOROSO: Leo Fender was an engineer

  • who saw a need amongst a bunch of musicians,

  • and started building guitars and amplifiers.

  • Noel Boggs was one of the go-to guys.

  • It would have been really neat to sit in the room

  • and listen to the ideas bounce back and forth

  • between these guys in the infancy of electric instruments

  • like this.

  • So you have a master volume and a master tone control.

  • It's kind of a trip, because this one's modified.

  • These are actually pickups.

  • This is a total custom modification.

  • I've never seen anything like that.

  • That's really cool.

  • DANIELLE: That's Leo Fender.

  • JESSE AMOROSO: Just to think that Leo sat there with him

  • and came up with this idea is pretty amazing.

  • What is this thing worth, man?

  • You know, price-wise on something

  • like this is kind of tough.

  • If I were to put it in the shop or something like that,

  • I would probably put it out at like 15 grand, maybe.

  • But at auction, it could go for way more than that.

  • You never know, this stuff is so subjective.

  • It almost should be in a museum somewhere,

  • you know what I mean?

  • COREY: I get you.

  • All right, I appreciate it, man. - No problem.

  • Thanks a lot.

  • I mean, great meeting you.

  • Thank you, it was wonderful to meet you.

  • - And I loved seeing this. - Thank you so much.

  • It's very cool. All right, thanks a lot.

  • Thank you.

  • COREY: I got to go with my guy.

  • If you're going to hold my feet to the fire,

  • I can offer you $10,000 for it.

  • But if I were you, I would put it in an auction.

  • I think I'll wait.

  • But thank you so very much.

  • Thank you very much.

  • It was really cool, and that was a really cool story to hear.

  • Thanks.

  • COREY: Take care.

  • DANIELLE: $10,000 for my dad's history

  • is a little bit of a heartbreak.

  • I'm going to sit with it a bit, and then I'm going

  • to look at auction houses.

  • Because I don't want to wait too long.

COREY: What do we got here?

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