Vintage 60s Fender STRINGMASTER D6 Doubleneck 6 Steel Slide Guitar

UPDATE: The input jack issue turned out to be my own human error... it was a bad cable after all. So issue solved. SHIPPING NOTE: It will be approx 40lb box so asking price covers worst case distance UPS charge. If you're closer to AZ we can recalculate... Okay here is another cool vintage piece from days of yore at the old Fender plant in Fullerton, CA. Control plate is stamped #00391 (exact dating is difficult for Fender steel guitars the serial number codes are disorganized and irregular).   Fender actually sold this model for decades with no design changes. Hard to tell exact model years (there is no handwritten date under the tuner pan on this guitar). I am pricing it as a middle period model (mid to late 60s). It has nitro lacquer paint and the middle period pre-CBS "transition" Fender decal on the front face. The decal points to approx 1964-1968 vintage. Some of the very early era models are worth a lot of $$$. This one is a more  affordable alternative to the 1950s collector pieces.  The heavily aged blonde color is now a very cool banana yellow. The finish is lacquer nitro cellulose, not polyurethane. Lots of telltale "weather checking" visible up close. This is the vintage Fender paint, the old-fashioned finish they used thru the 1960s.   This guitar has an overall well-preserved appearance with only a small amount of blunt force trauma (a couple of significant dents), plus assorted scrapes, scars and small dings etc. It has the expected moderate playing scratches and a bunch of chips in the paint (looks like someone kept their steel fingerpicks, brass knuckles, spare change etc in the sunk space between the two necks and that area is scratched up more). But this specimen has hardly any aging or bubbling flaws in the chrome. I have owned a bunch of these old Fender steels and this one has amazing chrome for its age. Except on the underside. Meaning the receptacle sockets for the legs (which are mechanically sound) do have some bubbling flaws in the chrome finish. I added a pic to show the underside. Update: leg socket chrome flaws look caused by scratching not bubbling. This makes sense if guitar was played on a surface with the legs stored away.  Meanwhile the legs themselves are very nice, no bubbling. Necks are standard 22.5" steel scale. Both black fretboards are exc cond with only small flaws.  As is, this instrument is "vintage clean" with an awesome relic mojo vibe. From a few feet away it looks nearly new. Here is the electronics scheme from the old Fullerton assembly line: two pairs of independent telecaster type pickups that when blended together each respective pair of coils creates a giant humbucker on each neck. So, on each neck, with respective blend controls maxed you get both pickups in series or with blender  off you get the bridge only (classic Fender tone, more Tele than Strat). The blend controls are under the chrome door covers btw.  OK so this model, the Stringmaster, comes from the factory with lots of humbucking power. But previous owner substituted a nice Strat pickup on the far neck bridge position and I am therefore forced to discount this guitar -- even though the truth is HIS CUSTOM PICKUP SCHEME WORKS GREAT. The quality strat pickup gives the far neck a harmonically wider, slightly airier, more chimey tone. I'm thinking perhaps this is how all of the Stringmasters might've been made: give the two necks each a slightly different tone. So one neck leans strat, one leans tele (btw sorry I never owned the orig pickup that was replaced).   The necks here are controlled by a 3-position switch: near neck only, both necks on, far neck  only. (Sorry the tele style black plastic "top hat" switch cover is missing.) The both necks on position was key for matching/tweaking overall pitch between the necks before digital tuners arrived.    There is a normal vol and a wide tone control wired for a big sweep of EQ from approx tele style ice pick to a medium round sound to all the way over where the highs are pretty much removed ("highs removed" tone does have some cool applications).  The tuner pans are original w/ vintage Kluson Deluxe machines, mechanically solid. No issues. Patent number stamp present here means likely made post 1963. But fans say all of the vintage Fender steel guitar component parts were much more likely to be seriously time-lagged than the  parts in the regular guitar division due to low volume sales the NOS new old stock steel guitar components would be slow to actually leave the factory. This is good news: the interior parts can be a lot older than the model year of each Fender steel guitar.  I just played this guitar and the sounds are strong. There is nothing broken, worn out or tired & weak here. UPDATE: Input jack issue was a bad cable... situation has been solved.  FYI these Stringmaster models are not "lap steels", not student models, not lower level guitars in the Fender slide guitar catalog. This is a pro instrument high quality throughout. The plates, tuners controls etc are awesome heavy duty metal like something out of another century! Yeah, exactly.   Comes with the original vintage steel telescoping legs (exc cond) and orig case in  well-preserved condition. Black vintage case is clean, mechanically sound and does not have any nasty stink. Note the 4-leg scheme here is actually useful compared to the very shaky 3-leg tripod scheme on the single neck Fender steels.  Re shipping: This doubleneck guitar is heavy (it's essentially two guitars) and the four legs are heavy, and the case is the usual old black Fender style (kinda heavy). So it's UPS Ground to these continental United States only.