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Topic: Vintage Photo - Conrad & His Hawaiians |
Doug Beaumier
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Roy Thomson
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Posted 27 Mar 2021 11:17 am |
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Striking! Beautiful!
Roots!
Thanks Doug!
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David Rattray
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Posted 27 Mar 2021 12:53 pm Cool Rick...
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Listening to this earlier Doug there is now sand in my shoes...great picture...old Ricks are sweet...
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Doug Beaumier
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David Rattray
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Posted 27 Mar 2021 1:33 pm
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| That is sweet Doug ...Gene Laflur a friend of mine has a silver one for sale here on the forum....they seem to be pretty small.....the bakelite"s if in good condition are pricey but what isn't ... |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 27 Mar 2021 2:01 pm
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Nice pic, Doug. Those are some lapels!
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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David Ball
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North Carolina High Country
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Posted 27 Mar 2021 2:56 pm
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I had a friend who owned one of the "vibrola" model Rick Spanish guitars with the motorized vibrola built in and the pedestal down to the amp to hold it. Super cool. Wish I had bought it from him....
Did get a nice round neck style 2 tricone from him though. A bunch of kids out in the sticks of East Tennessee were playing with it out in the yard as a toy. He traded a nice top of the line red wagon (that his folks couldn't afford) for the guitar back in the seventies. Fortunately, the guitar hadn't suffered too much as a toy.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Doug Beaumier
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Posted 27 Mar 2021 3:33 pm
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| I had a friend who owned one of the "vibrola" model Rick Spanish guitars with the motorized vibrola built in and the pedestal down to the amp to hold it. Super cool. |
I've seen pictures of that model. Pretty interesting. The main problem with the Electro Spanish Rick... the intonation above fret 7 was way off and there was no way to adjust it. The neck is just a chunk of bakelite. And the bakelite frets would wear down. That's why a previous owner installed metal frets in mine.
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