For Sale: Scotty dewitt lap steel prototype guitar
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Thomas Mardas
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- Location: Maine, USA
For Sale: Scotty dewitt lap steel prototype guitar
Comes with amazing hard case and korg tuner with cable. Just put Open E set of strings on her. Amazing sound both clean and dirty. Powerful pickup. Looks like a horseshoe but i guess that part isn't actually magnetized. Either way it's amazing. I will accept 600 and will ship for an extra 25 in the USA. Or trade for a Rickenbacker lap steel NS, academy, ace or what have you.
Last edited by Thomas Mardas on 11 Sep 2022 4:39 pm, edited 4 times in total.
Just a note...
Thomas:
Don't mean to be a stickler, but it's important to note that the 1.5" horseshoe is merely a pickup cover.
Unlike the Rickenbacker 1.5" shoes... this one isn't magnetized. It's merely cosmetic.
That said... I have owned and played several of the Scotty frypans and prototypes and they sound fantastic! They have hand-wound pickups by a great custom builder.
I wish I'd kept the one I had. So, whoever buys this gets a great guitar.
Don't mean to be a stickler, but it's important to note that the 1.5" horseshoe is merely a pickup cover.
Unlike the Rickenbacker 1.5" shoes... this one isn't magnetized. It's merely cosmetic.
That said... I have owned and played several of the Scotty frypans and prototypes and they sound fantastic! They have hand-wound pickups by a great custom builder.
I wish I'd kept the one I had. So, whoever buys this gets a great guitar.
Remington Steelmaster S8 w/ custom Steeltronics pickup. Vox MV-50 amplifier + an 1940's Oahu cab w/ 8" American Vintage speaker. J. Mascis Fender Squire Jazzmaster, Hofner Club bass, Ibanez AVN4-VMS Artwood Vintage Series Concert Size Acoustic Guitar. 1920s/30s Supertone Hawaiian-themed parlor guitar. Silvertone parlor guitar.
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Thomas Mardas
- Posts: 19
- Joined: 7 Jun 2022 2:26 pm
- Location: Maine, USA
Scotty frypan guitar owner
The scotty fry pan is no longer for sale. Trade maybe but i don't know. Starting to get better at playing lap steel and this thing is amazing. I can't believe i was ready to sell it for a great price. The lord works in mysterious ways! Peace and love to all you player of guitar and this cool instrument. Tom
Last edited by Thomas Mardas on 13 Sep 2022 7:11 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Yup!
Yeah... I saw the auction. Ended up going for $584.99, shipped, on eBay, which is a decent price for a cool little guitar.
I think that's about what I paid for it--give or take--when I owned it. In time, I think it may appreciate because there are so, so few of these.
If anybody else owns one of these, PLEASE post pics to the Steel without Pedals section of the Forum. I'm dying to see one that wasn't a prototype-- they had even more convincing-looking horseshoes. But I did read an interview somewhere with someone who worked with Scotty on the endorsement who admitted that one of the biggest mistakes they made was not to have a genuine magnetic shoe.
That's an issue I discovered after I bought (and later sold before I discovered the truth) about the J.B. Frypans--they don't have Rick-style magnetic shoes either! Which I found a bit sneaky, because they never mentioned that the 1.5" horseshoe was purely cosmetic in any of the ads I saw (perhaps it was mentioned in the original ads... I only bought used guitars.
Anyway... maybe we can take this up under the "without Pedals" section.
Glad you made your sale, man!!!
I think that's about what I paid for it--give or take--when I owned it. In time, I think it may appreciate because there are so, so few of these.
If anybody else owns one of these, PLEASE post pics to the Steel without Pedals section of the Forum. I'm dying to see one that wasn't a prototype-- they had even more convincing-looking horseshoes. But I did read an interview somewhere with someone who worked with Scotty on the endorsement who admitted that one of the biggest mistakes they made was not to have a genuine magnetic shoe.
That's an issue I discovered after I bought (and later sold before I discovered the truth) about the J.B. Frypans--they don't have Rick-style magnetic shoes either! Which I found a bit sneaky, because they never mentioned that the 1.5" horseshoe was purely cosmetic in any of the ads I saw (perhaps it was mentioned in the original ads... I only bought used guitars.
Anyway... maybe we can take this up under the "without Pedals" section.
Glad you made your sale, man!!!
Remington Steelmaster S8 w/ custom Steeltronics pickup. Vox MV-50 amplifier + an 1940's Oahu cab w/ 8" American Vintage speaker. J. Mascis Fender Squire Jazzmaster, Hofner Club bass, Ibanez AVN4-VMS Artwood Vintage Series Concert Size Acoustic Guitar. 1920s/30s Supertone Hawaiian-themed parlor guitar. Silvertone parlor guitar.