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Topic: Mosrite-era electric dobro? |
John Rosett
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Missoula, MT
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Posted 17 Mar 2011 12:48 pm |
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A local music store has an odd Dobro. It's a round neck with a magnetic pickup at the neck, is bright red, and has the Dobro decal on the peghead. It has an abbreviated neck heel, and a large (factory) bolt in the back that looks like it has something to do with the neck attachment. The pickup doesn't seem to be working, and I think that they're going to sell it fairly cheap.
Does anybody know about these guitars?
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2011 1:12 pm
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John Rosett
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Missoula, MT
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Posted 17 Mar 2011 1:23 pm
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I don't have any pictures, but I found a picture of a blue one. I think that the pickup in this picture is not original:
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 7:07 am
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That would be one of the Mosrite era Dobro guitars, probably an Avalon. Notecannons has a Mosrite catalog that could help you narrow down which model you're talking about.
In general these guitars are not considered particularly collectible.
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John Rosett
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Missoula, MT
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 8:57 am
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Thanks Brad, that's a big help!
As far as it not being "collectible"; that makes it "affordable"!
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 2:55 pm
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John, I bought one of those "Mosrite" Dobros years ago and was going to raise the action and use it as an open G tuned guitar for Bluegrass type things but when I went to raise the nut I couldn't get the "nut extension" to work right because the guitar had a "zero fret". I knew a guy who had another brand who just played fretted Dobro things so we traded...........JH in Va.
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David Phillips
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San Francisco CA , USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 4:08 pm My Red Dobro
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Hello John,
This is my pretty Red Dobro. I like this guitar very much although adjusting intonation was difficult.
I use it as a round neck/take-off guitar as I have a Clinesmith and an eight string Dobro.
It is a good stage and personal guitar but not very loud as an acoustic.
Sorry to discourage but if you want to make this act like a square neck I'd steer you to an inexpensive Goldtone or some similar option.
The bolt on the back helps adjust the neck angle. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 11:42 pm
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| James Burton played one to. |
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Tom Keller
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Greeneville, TN, USA
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Posted 20 Mar 2011 8:21 am
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| Brad thanks for posting that link to the Mosrite catalogs. I spent many an hour as a kid drooling over those pictures especially the Uncle Josh model. |
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