Show us your Dickerson (or any MOTS steel)

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 28 Jun 2023 8:08 am

My kids got me this little student model MOTS Dickerson for Father's Day ...

Here's a tune recorded with it ...

https://on.soundcloud.com/q55YLwW1REAeE2q29

Steve Green · Post by **Steve Green** » 28 Jun 2023 9:49 am

Here's my dad playing his back in the late 80's or early 90's. It's the first lap steel I ever saw or played. He got it at a pawn shop near the airport in Alexandria, Louisiana. I think he paid $75 bucks for it. In the last 2 pics, that's me accompanying him on piano.

Bill Groner · Post by **Bill Groner** » 28 Jun 2023 10:48 am

Rick Aiello wrote:

My kids got me this little student model MOTS Dickerson for Father's Day ...

Here's a tune recorded with it ...

https://on.soundcloud.com/q55YLwW1REAeE2q29

Sounds Great Ric........good kids too!!!!

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 29 Jun 2023 2:26 am

All MOTS steels are welcome here ...

Noah Miller · Post by **Noah Miller** » 29 Jun 2023 5:11 am

Well, if we're opening it up to any MOTS...

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 29 Jun 2023 5:38 am

Wow ...

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 29 Jun 2023 6:12 am

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 29 Jun 2023 7:07 am

I don't have the amp but this is a little Oahu I bought from a Baptist preacher in Colorado.

Erv

Garry Vanderlinde · Post by **Garry Vanderlinde** » 29 Jun 2023 9:45 pm

Great Kids!
Lots of tone in those old Dickerson MOTS guitars
Here's Dick McIntire pointing out the finer points to Sol Hoopi'i in 1938

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 30 Jun 2023 12:29 pm

I have one back in NY......I'll have to wait 'till mid July to send you a Dick pic.......

John Dahms · Post by **John Dahms** » 30 Jun 2023 3:45 pm

Magnatone family MOTS steels and amps hold a soft spot in my heart. I call them my "Jelly Beans." Here are some of mine:

1937-8

Here is one of the early ones (1938) next to one of the last ones (1954 ish).

I stacked these two to illustrate the difference in the neck profile from an early and later guitar. Maybe they had a problem with warping or breaking and thickened them as a fix.

Bill Groner · Post by **Bill Groner** » 30 Jun 2023 4:02 pm

I think you are the winner John! I saw you collection early on in my Lapsteel journey and didn't realize what I was looking at. Fantastic......

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 30 Jun 2023 4:19 pm

I like that '37/'38 one a lot !!

David Matzenik · Post by **David Matzenik** » 30 Jun 2023 7:32 pm

The lagoon aqua blue outfits? Ultra-drool!!!

Gene Wilcox · Post by **Gene Wilcox** » 1 Jul 2023 4:01 pm

My humble submission. I would like to find a matching knob for the missing one. Fantastic sounding P/U

David M Brown · Post by **David M Brown** » 2 Jul 2023 5:57 am

Here's one:

Nioma branded Magnatone.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 4 Jul 2023 3:55 am

Here's tune on my '52 Magnatone that shows the pure sound of the pickup direct into the computer with just a little reverb and minimal EQ. I think these little guitars are truly underrated.

https://soundcloud.com/aev/loch-lomond- ... steel-solo

Frank James Pracher · Post by **Frank James Pracher** » 6 Jul 2023 9:55 am

Here's a few of mine...

Lynn Wheelwright · Post by **Lynn Wheelwright** » 6 Jul 2023 1:26 pm

David Matzenik · Post by **David Matzenik** » 6 Jul 2023 2:22 pm

This is my Boss Katana modification, inspired by the Dickerson amps.

Bill Sinclair · Post by **Bill Sinclair** » 7 Jul 2023 5:53 am

So much cool stuff here. Love the grill cloth, David. I'm a little embarrassed to include my butchered Dickerson in this thread. I picked this up super cheap on ebay years ago because someone had cut through the MOTS covering to get to the pickup and then given up. I made the red teardrop pickup plate from a sheet of pickguard material to cover the extensive damage and put in a pickup I had laying around. It was also missing the bridge so I modified a Gretsch (I think) bridge to work. It was also my first experience installing the Stewmac tuner buttons. One thing I love about these guitars is that with the bridge so close to the end, they're physically a lot shorter than most 22.5" scale guitars and don't take up much space in the trunk or overhead bin.

George Piburn · Post by **George Piburn** » 7 Jul 2023 8:28 am

Does a Mother of A Toilet Seat Count? It has a Horseshoe Pickup (handle).

It features a Super High Intensity Tone pot and a Controlled Resonance Articulation Pot.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 7 Jul 2023 9:02 am

Bill Sinclair wrote:One thing I love about these guitars is that with the bridge so close to the end, they're physically a lot shorter than most 22.5" scale guitars and don't take up much space in the trunk or overhead bin.

Another feature of the Dickerson and Magnatone MOTS instruments is the fact that they're featherweights. I've often wondered if it's balsa hiding underneath that celluloid.

Frank James Pracher · Post by **Frank James Pracher** » 7 Jul 2023 10:15 am

Jack Hanson wrote: Another feature of the Dickerson and Magnatone MOTS instruments is the fact that they're featherweights. I've often wondered if it's balsa hiding underneath that celluloid.

I have quite a few of these and most appear to be pine bodies, one I'm fairly certain is redwood, and another I have is oddly enough maple! I think they used whatever was cheap and on hand for the student models.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 7 Jul 2023 5:21 pm

Frank James Pracher wrote:...one I'm fairly certain is redwood...

It's mind boggling to contemplate how many student model bodies could be cut from a mature redwood.

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