Thomas PSD, GFI PSD, and Magnatone For Sale

Jack Pelamati · Post by **Jack Pelamati** » 5 Oct 2011 11:08 am

I'm a new non-musician member who joined up to sell these guitars and send Bob some mailbox money. The guitars have been posted on my personal website: http://www.paljack.com/SteelGuitars

Thank you!

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 5 Oct 2011 11:26 am

What's a PSD?

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 5 Oct 2011 11:30 am

not sure....and the pictures he has links to aren't the ones for sale.

Dennis Wireman · Post by **Dennis Wireman** » 5 Oct 2011 11:33 am

email sent

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 5 Oct 2011 11:39 am

or are they? i like the green thomas if that one is for sale.

it's like buying apples from a squash farmer...

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 5 Oct 2011 11:41 am

Bob Knight wrote:What's a PSD?

PSD is an hallucinogen with pedals and knee levers. It'll melt your mind permanently.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 5 Oct 2011 11:41 am

do they have prices?

jack, how do you like your first day on the forum so far?

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 5 Oct 2011 11:43 am

Strange pedal setup on the Thomas?

Curt Langston · Post by **Curt Langston** » 5 Oct 2011 12:30 pm

That's and old, pre Ultra GFI. Note the two piece (sustain robbing) keyhead.

Decent price though.

Larry Baker · Post by **Larry Baker** » 5 Oct 2011 1:49 pm

Personally, I think you would get more response if you would post the Pic''s directly here on the forum. For me at least, the pic's download really slow from your site. I finally gave up,,,got tired of waiting to see pic's.

Jack Pelamati · Post by **Jack Pelamati** » 5 Oct 2011 2:20 pm

I've enjoyed reading the forum the past few months. Yes, all of them are for sale. I'm still trying to determine a fair price on the Thomas and magnatone. Any advice for a
squash farmer?

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chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 5 Oct 2011 2:27 pm

oh good! thank god you've got a sense of humor, jack. that thomas is really pretty...they're not made anymore but that's a good solid steel...whatever you can get around $2000 on that one i would think.

Curt Langston · Post by **Curt Langston** » 5 Oct 2011 3:37 pm

Indeed.

1900.00-2000.00 for the Thomas.

1450.00-1600.00 for the GFI.

600.00-700.00 for the Magnatone.

All plus shipping.

Eric Gross · Post by **Eric Gross** » 5 Oct 2011 3:51 pm

Hi Jack I will take the magnatone, I will send an email.

Thanks,
Eric

Jack Pelamati · Post by **Jack Pelamati** » 5 Oct 2011 5:02 pm

About the strange pedals. My brother mentioned the original owner only had a left leg. And thinks they go A B C from left to right and the lever is D or E.

I'm starting wonder now if I can even sell a squash.

Eric Gross · Post by **Eric Gross** » 6 Oct 2011 3:03 am

Hi Jack,

I just wanted to check to be sure you received my email offer.

Thanks,
Eric

Curt Langston · Post by **Curt Langston** » 6 Oct 2011 5:40 am

Jack, looks like you have some offers! That's great! Chances are, these are fair offers, so it looks like you may have some sales. Congrats.

Jack Pelamati · Post by **Jack Pelamati** » 6 Oct 2011 7:18 am

Hey Eric,

Not yet...just sent you an email with an alt email address and my
home phone.

Thank you all very much,

Eric Gross · Post by **Eric Gross** » 6 Oct 2011 2:19 pm

Hi Jack,

Sorry I did not receive any emails from you. To contact me, click on the 'pm' button at the bottom of this message, then in the big box type in your email and phone number information, then click submit.

Thanks,
Eric

Jack Pelamati · Post by **Jack Pelamati** » 14 Oct 2011 6:24 pm

The Magnatone has been sold.
Thanks again guys.

John Turbeville · Post by **John Turbeville** » 14 Oct 2011 7:35 pm

pm sent

Jack Pelamati · Post by **Jack Pelamati** » 15 Oct 2011 11:33 am

There have been a few questions asked about the GFI and Thomas guitars which I couldn't answer because I'm not a player. So I took them to Steel Guitars of North County and Jim was kind enough to take a look at them.

1)The GFI has a standard Emmons set-up.

2)The Thomas might only be worth $1900-$2000 to the right player. It only as two knee levers and the E9 side has a strange set-up which most players might want to have reconfigured. I can pay Jim to make the adjustments or the buyer could take it to their own guy. It would cost roughly $250. The other side has a standard Emmons set-up.

He also suggested a fair price might only be $1400-$1700 and hinted he prefers to be on the low side. So we'll consider all reasonable offers plus shipping and paypal fees.

I hope there aren't too many more technical questions as I'm running out of resources to get answers. Please don't trouble Jim with any questions - I only dropped his name to validate that someone knowledgeable took a look at them.

Thanks again everyone..

Eric Gross · Post by **Eric Gross** » 27 Oct 2011 4:35 am

I received the Magnatone, it is in good shape considering it's age and was extremely well packed by Jack. One of the switches was a little intermittent so right now the guitar is in pieces to see whether the switch can be cleaned or needs to be replaced. The guitar will be cleaned up and need to add a few missing screws to the tuners and it should be fine.

There was a little worry at first that something was wrong with the pots or pickups, because when turning the tone knob it was not a linear change in tone/volume. But now that I sketched out the circuit I realize it is a combo tone/blend pot and so that is expected. Considering rewiring with a stacked pot to separate the tone/blend.

All in all I am happy with the purchase and can't wait to get this up and running.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 27 Oct 2011 7:41 am

Jack informs me that the GFI has been sold. The Magnatone picture takes me back... I had an identical guitar before I got my first real pedal steel. It was the instrument I learned to play on.

For anyone who's on the fence about the Thomas: There weren't a lot of them made but they are really good guitars. Barry Thomas designed an excellent pedal steel. He wasn't a garage builder - he had a fully equipped shop with several employees and was producing these at a fair clip when personal circumstances forced him to close the business. People who were lucky enough to get one are very happy with their Thomas pedal steel.

Jack Pelamati · Post by **Jack Pelamati** » 26 Nov 2011 9:45 pm

The Thomas just sold to a fella visiting the local area who saw an ad placed elsewhere before I knew about the SGF.

Thanks again to everyone who ponied up advice and opinions and to bOb for this very enjoyable forum. Please close this thread and check your PayPal account.

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