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Ron Victoria
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Posted 23 Jul 2006 4:46 am |
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Auction on eBay.
Can anyone shed some light on this one? It's amazing that a week doesn't go by that I don't see another lap steel new to me.
Ron[This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 23 July 2006 at 08:11 AM.] |
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Loni Specter
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West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2006 7:46 am
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It looks like a custom made thing to me. It might be interesting. I like the mahogany and ? natural wood.
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 23 Jul 2006 10:17 am
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| Never seen anything like it, but there must be something to it if gmt gtrz is bidding. |
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Tim Tweedale
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Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Posted 23 Jul 2006 10:48 am
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I am a little curious as to the meaning of "very good non working condition".
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Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2006 12:13 pm
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Gmt has bids on at least 5 that I know of right now. I wonder how big his collection is?
Ron |
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Rick Batey
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Posted 23 Jul 2006 2:09 pm
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 23 Jul 2006 6:26 pm
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gmt is a Gibson collector. I've seen him bid up to $12,000 on a guitar he wants. But he generally bids very low on things and he looses a lot of auctions (wisely).
That T-6 looks homemade. Notice that it's in the UK. Shipping to the USA for this triple neck would be $150 minumum. Probably more like $200.
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2006 6:44 am
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Baz, "This guitar is NOT a known European make."!
Just when I was thinkin' it might be a Hofner! Although the one pic of it is pretty cr@ppy, I have seen a similar peghead design and overlay on a Hofner plectrum guitar. Same MOTS (or whatever it is) too.
JB
Edited to add to Doug, it doesn't look homemade to me.[This message was edited by John Billings on 24 July 2006 at 07:52 AM.] [This message was edited by John Billings on 24 July 2006 at 09:25 AM.] |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2006 7:12 am
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| Notice the construction of the body, and how it curves down to meet with the neck bottoms where the pegheads start. Pretty sofisticated, I think. Same tuning machins, with kinda square buttons, as used by Hofner. Wish it were over here. I'd bid on it. [This message was edited by John Billings on 24 July 2006 at 08:24 AM.] [This message was edited by John Billings on 24 July 2006 at 09:26 AM.] [This message was edited by John Billings on 24 July 2006 at 11:45 AM.] [This message was edited by John Billings on 24 July 2006 at 01:20 PM.] |
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2006 8:32 am
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Ok, I do trust you! By the way, here's the Hofner Plectrum Guitar that my best friend got on Ebay last night. And it's a beauty! Do you think it was custom-ordered? Very, very fancy! http://tinyurl.com/fovkr
I spent hours and hours yesterday on a Hofner site, and didn't see anything like it. Seems to be very top-o-the-line.
Your guitar is gorgeous!
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 25 Jul 2006 8:57 am
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The seller sent me this picture. I've never seen anything like this, and I think it might be home made, by a very good craftsman. Or maybe it's a radically modified Hofner or Framus? The bridges look to be newer that the rest of the guitar.
Shipping to the USA is $200, and insurance is $150... so that leaves me out 
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2006 12:59 pm
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| I'll believe Baz on this one. He seems to be a total Hofner freak! The reason I thought it might have been a Hofner was the peghead "inlay." It's just like the famous Hofner "Rocket." Notice how the necks are of staggered height, and the way the body curves down to meet the bottom of the headstocks. If this was a homebuilt, that builder was really good! [This message was edited by John Billings on 25 July 2006 at 02:01 PM.] |
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Dave Boothroyd
From:
Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 25 Jul 2006 10:52 pm
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The folded metal bridges/tailpieces are very similar to the ones on my nameless "Singing Plank" - and guitars don't come any more homemade than that. It's a piece of mahogany that probably used to be a wardrobe, with a hand wound pickup on a wooden bobbin.
The bridge looks like the only factory made part, apart from the tuners.
I wonder if there was a kit or a magazine article at one time on Making your own Steel, and some were made by craftsmen and some were made by the person who made my Singing Plank.
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 26 Jul 2006 12:01 am
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I'm with you Dave, I vote for handmade. It's a very nice "folk art" piece, and has value as such. The wood pickup covers, the wood bridge plates, wood control plate, the screws on those plates, the bridges themselves, the metal washer under the large chickenhead knob, and the mismatched headstock on the outer neck all spell homemade to me. Notice that the 3 headstocks are not identical. The outer headstock is shaped different than the middle headstock.
It could be an optical illusion, but the scale length looks different on the outer neck and the middle neck. This doesn't look like factory work IMHO.
As far as kits or plans... There is an old hobby magazine from the early 1960's with a feature article on how to build a multi-neck steel guitar. Issues of this magazine appear 3 or 4 times a year on eBay. I'm not saying that this guitar was built from those plans, but I'm sure that there were similar articles in circulation back in the 50's and 60's.
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