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Topic: Help with Magnatone Lap Steel |
Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 14 Jul 2007 10:23 am |
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I bought this years ago and would like to find out anything about it.It has a built in amp in the case,and it works.Stu
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John Dahms
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Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2007 11:04 am
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I've got a bunch of Magnatone family steels. Yours is a pre-war Dickerson, Oahu, Bronson style with the tulip shaped headstock. I figure these to be 1937-40 era. This is the first I have seen the use of the name Magna-Tone on one of these. A tone control was added before they stopped production for the WW2 period. The amp in case set (I think) is ca.'39-41. Postwar guitars have a different headstock and slightly larger body. I used to take one of these with me when I would have road trips for work because they are so small and light but still 22.5 " scale. Check on the side of the headstock, there may be a serial # stamped there. There may be a date coded into the numbers stamped on the rim of the speaker as well.
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 14 Jul 2007 11:24 am
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John,Thanks for the help...I didn't know that it was that old.Right you are there is a number {62}stamped on the side of the headstock.Thanks ,Stu
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Gary Lynch
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Creston, California, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2007 11:30 am
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John Dahms
From:
Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2007 1:09 pm
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"What date was Pearloid (MOTS) first used?"
I have a Dickerson in yellow MOTS and and a few green ones ca.'37.
It was used at first as a decoration on higher end guitars, often on the face of the headstock or the fingerboard by National and Gibson in the early-mid 30s. First seen as a replacement for mother of pearl it slowly became less of a status symbol and more commonly used until eventually it was so common that toilet seats were seen covered in it (hence, "MOTS- mother of toilet seat). By the mid 50s student amps only were covered in MOTS, then leatherette replaced it, then eventually Tolex.
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