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Nic du Toit


From:
Milnerton, Cape, South Africa
Post  Posted 5 Apr 2009 4:49 am    
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Does anyone know what guitar this is?
It looks like Epiphone hardware and knobs.
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Billy Gilbert

 

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Texas, USA
Post  Posted 5 Apr 2009 11:46 am     What Kind
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Nick, there were some Victor Electrola record players made in the 1930s. Do you suppose RCA might have made a few lap steels?
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Nic du Toit


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Milnerton, Cape, South Africa
Post  Posted 5 Apr 2009 12:11 pm    
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I have no idea. Smile
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Ron Whitfield

 

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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
Post  Posted 5 Apr 2009 2:17 pm     Nice find! Bet she sounds nice...
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Looks like 30s era Ricky knobs on a rather cool and certainly rare 6er.
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John Drury


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Gallatin, Tn USA
Post  Posted 5 Apr 2009 3:33 pm    
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Can you get a closer in photo of pickup, bridge and controls? Also backside.
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Nic du Toit


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Milnerton, Cape, South Africa
Post  Posted 5 Apr 2009 9:12 pm    
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I do not have access to the guitar. Sad

I do not know if the electronics work. The side view reveals that the back has a big thin cover plate.

The second image shows an output socket plate that looks like aftermarket work.
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Brad Bechtel


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San Francisco, CA
Post  Posted 6 Apr 2009 8:54 am    
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That doesn't appear to be an American made lap steel to me. I have no idea who would have built it.
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George Keoki Lake


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Edmonton, AB., Canada
Post  Posted 6 Apr 2009 9:57 pm    
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...."Nick, there were some Victor Electrola record players made in the 1930s. Do you suppose RCA might have made a few lap steels?"

Not impossible. I happen to have an old Victrola Ukulele ! Label inside shows the dog listening to "His Master's Voice" (long horn attached to a machine)
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