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Jon Light
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What's Wrong with This Picture?

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This Ebay Guitar

First person to nail it wins nuthin'.
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Post by Max Laine »

Six string pickups on an eight string guitar?
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Jon Light wrote:This Ebay Guitar

First person to nail it wins nuthin'.
Interesting pickup choice for 8-string necks, to be sure...
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what's wrong with this one?........ :lol:
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A big nuthin to the first two gennelmen.

The builder was known far and wide as that guy with the middlin' sound--no highs, no lows.. He build quite a career on this reputation. So Howard, you are correct--nothing wrong at all.

Think the auction winner will show up on the forum asking why he gets uneven volume out of the top & bottom strings? actually, the polepieces don't even work for the middle six string spacing.
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The guitar has been manipulated and it's easy to see. 1. There are two difference kinds of bridge assemblies. 2. The tuners have been changed out. 3. Note the holes in front of the nut on neck #1.

The front nuts do not fit the fretboard. The pickups do not fit the 8 string configuration. The pickup surrounds could be later add-ons, it's hard to tell. This could have been an 6 string converted to 8. In any case, the conversions and/or repairs were certainly done by an amateur. I doubt the person who built the body built these oddities into the rig.
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...Oh, the Humanity!

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To say this was an amateur reno job is an understatement.

That being said, looks like there's some nice wood under all the crap. Could probably be a nice D8 for someone with a little patience and know how.

Anyone have a clue what this was before the hatchet job? I'm thinkin' Magnatone, but I could be wrong.
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Not that I know anything but...I view this as folk art. Home made. Blow up some of the detail photos and look at stuff like the inlays & fret markers. Hobby-level work. There's a really nice patina on it and I'd love to hang it on a wall as a piece of Americana. I truly like it. But I think there may be a crack in the headstock by the high string of the front neck, there's all the other stuff Gary's talking about, the binding looks like it wants to pop off----I can't begin to think of this seriously as anything other than an object d'art.
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Jon Light wrote:I can't begin to think of this seriously as anything other than an object d'art.

more like object d'fart.......
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Aren't those typical door hinges being used for the bridges?
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