Fender fm-62SCE

[Wild Rover Phill]

I have been doing a little research and I discovered a Fender electric acoustic mandolin that was in a bit of a controversy.
Apparently Fender had made this fm62-sce mandolin, and it bared strong resemblance to an electric mandolin made by Rigel called the Rigel G-110.
Fender eventually backed down from Rigel after they threatened Fender with a lawsuit, because the body types of the mando's were so similar. The Fender models made before the lawsuit are sometimes called "pre-lawsuit" models. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the difference is in body types between the "pre" and "post" lawsuit Fender fm62-SCE models.

here is a link to an article I found on this http://jazzmando.com/new/archives/001096.shtml

Thanks so much for your help!
-Phill

[mandroid]

I understand Gold Tone did it the proper way and paid a fee
to the Rigel developers, to license the design.

the one I saw in our local shop had an outline like the FM61Se I own.
the 5 string 60 used the same body outline..

but a bit more of archtop spruce .. pickup a Piezo in the bridge ,
rather than on the 61, Magnetic.

so I suppose that is Post, the one Ted got a hold of was Pre settlement.

[Wild Rover Phill]

Ahh I see. I did a little more digging and discovered that the fm62-se is the pre lawsuit and the fm62-sce is the post lawsuit.
Thank you for your help mandroid.

[Jim MacDaniel]

If you are looking for one of those, even more intriguring is this Rigel-esque once-off Michael Kelly mandola prototype for sale over at emando.com (http://emando.com/shop/sales.htm).

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/3688379896_cdfd98edb0.jpg

(NFI)

[Ian Rossiter]

Anybody else have one?? I have a Blueburst SCE, and am courious if anybody else has to completely roll off the tone pot to get a decent Tone ??? Just courious.
Thanks.

[Jim MacDaniel]

IIRC the FM-62SCE is the post-lawsuit model designation (pictured below in red), and the FM-62SE (pictured below in burst), is the pre-lawsuit version -- although I've seen the pre-lawsuit model in blueburst and red as well. Which of these two pics do your SCE's look like ?

FM-62SCE
http://www.emando.com/images/builders/Fender/Fender_FM62SCE_red_small.JPG

FM-62SE
http://www.emando.com/images/builders/Fender/Fender_fm62se.jpg

[Wild Rover Phill]

Wow Jim, that mando looks amazing.
And the model I found definitely looks like the sce. So I guess the one I found isn't the pre lawsuit model.

[Wild Rover Phill]

Thanks for all of the help by the way, guys.

[Jim MacDaniel]

FYI, there's a couple of SCE's up on eBay now, one red as in the pic, and one an interesting color of blue -- although the seller's pics could be off color.