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.