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Topic: ZumSteel Fretboard Change |
Jerry Berger
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Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 12:31 pm |
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When did ZumSteel go from a silver colored fretboard design to a multicolored fretboard? Here's a pic of mine.
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Clark Doughty
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KANSAS
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 1:17 pm Zum frets
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| Jerry mine is about 5 years old and it has the colored frets........cd |
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Billy Easton
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 1:27 pm
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Mine was built in 1997 and has the colored fret markers.
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 2:05 pm
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| I should have probably mentioned that mine was built in 1996. That might have been the last year before they went to the colored fret markers. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 2:18 pm
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| Jerry Berger wrote: |
| I should have probably mentioned that mine was built in 1996. That might have been the last year before they went to the colored fret markers. |
No, my '81 had colored fret boards. Nearly all I've seen are colored. The occasional plain one comes along now and again. Perhaps they might have been ordered that way. |
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Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 2:58 pm
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Jerry glad to see you are still involved in playing the steel, thought we had lost you there for a while.
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2017 3:49 pm
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Hey Larry.... There's been times that I thought about moving on to something else but playing and listening to steel music runs through my blood vanes. I can never escape it for very long!  |
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john widgren
From:
Wilton CT
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Posted 2 Oct 2017 8:05 am Zumsteel fretboards
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I love those non-colored fretboards! Guess it's because I'm color blind...But I also love the minimal look. If anybody has one (or more) in unused condition..I'll buy em.
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Dean Holman
From:
Branson MO
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Posted 8 Oct 2017 3:12 pm
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| Bruce has always had the colored fretboards. I think he started offering the plain silver fretboards around the early nineties possibly late eighties. I know the first guitar I saw with just the silver, was a black and teal SD10 that Jack Smith played, that was in 1990. Most Zums I've seen have always had the colored fretboards. |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 15 Oct 2017 5:34 pm
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I had a 97 Zum at one point, this had the coloured fret markers !
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