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Topic: Show us your Dickerson (or any MOTS steel) |
Rick Aiello
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Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2023 8:08 am |
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My kids got me this little student model MOTS Dickerson for Father's Day ...
Here's a tune recorded with it ...
https://on.soundcloud.com/q55YLwW1REAeE2q29
Last edited by Rick Aiello on 29 Jun 2023 2:24 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Steve Green
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Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2023 9:49 am
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Here's my dad playing his back in the late 80's or early 90's. It's the first lap steel I ever saw or played. He got it at a pawn shop near the airport in Alexandria, Louisiana. I think he paid $75 bucks for it. In the last 2 pics, that's me accompanying him on piano.
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Bill Groner
From:
QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 28 Jun 2023 10:48 am Re: Show us your Dickerson
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Sounds Great Ric........good kids too!!!!
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Currently own, 6 Groner-tone lap steels, one 1953 Alamo Lap steel, Roland Cube, Fender Champion 40 |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2023 2:26 am
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| All MOTS steels are welcome here ... |
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Noah Miller
From:
Rocky Hill, CT
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Posted 29 Jun 2023 5:11 am
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Well, if we're opening it up to any MOTS...
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2023 5:38 am
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Wow ... |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2023 7:07 am
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I don't have the amp but this is a little Oahu I bought from a Baptist preacher in Colorado.
Erv
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Garry Vanderlinde
From:
CA
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Posted 29 Jun 2023 9:45 pm
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Great Kids!
Lots of tone in those old Dickerson MOTS guitars
Here's Dick McIntire pointing out the finer points to Sol Hoopi'i in 1938
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 30 Jun 2023 12:29 pm
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I have one back in NY......I'll have to wait 'till mid July to send you a Dick pic.......  |
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John Dahms
From:
Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2023 3:45 pm
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Magnatone family MOTS steels and amps hold a soft spot in my heart. I call them my "Jelly Beans." Here are some of mine:
1937-8
Here is one of the early ones (1938) next to one of the last ones (1954 ish).
I stacked these two to illustrate the difference in the neck profile from an early and later guitar. Maybe they had a problem with warping or breaking and thickened them as a fix.
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Bill Groner
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QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 30 Jun 2023 4:02 pm
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I think you are the winner John! I saw your collection early on in my Lapsteel journey and didn't realize what I was looking at. Fantastic......
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Currently own, 6 Groner-tone lap steels, one 1953 Alamo Lap steel, Roland Cube, Fender Champion 40
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2023 4:19 pm
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I like that '37/'38 one a lot !! |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 30 Jun 2023 7:32 pm
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The lagoon aqua blue outfits? Ultra-drool!!!
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Gene Wilcox
From:
Kingman AZ USA
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Posted 1 Jul 2023 4:01 pm
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My humble submission. I would like to find a matching knob for the missing one. Fantastic sounding P/U 
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David M Brown
From:
California, USA
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Posted 2 Jul 2023 5:57 am
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Here's one:
Nioma branded Magnatone. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Frank James Pracher
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2023 9:55 am
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Here's a few of mine...
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Lynn Wheelwright
From:
Clearfield, Utah, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2023 1:26 pm Bronson/Dickerson Zypher set
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 6 Jul 2023 2:22 pm
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This is my Boss Katana modification, inspired by the Dickerson amps. 
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2023 5:53 am
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So much cool stuff here. Love the grill cloth, David. I'm a little embarrassed to include my butchered Dickerson in this thread. I picked this up super cheap on ebay years ago because someone had cut through the MOTS covering to get to the pickup and then given up. I made the red teardrop pickup plate from a sheet of pickguard material to cover the extensive damage and put in a pickup I had laying around. It was also missing the bridge so I modified a Gretsch (I think) bridge to work. It was also my first experience installing the Stewmac tuner buttons. One thing I love about these guitars is that with the bridge so close to the end, they're physically a lot shorter than most 22.5" scale guitars and don't take up much space in the trunk or overhead bin.
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George Piburn
From:
The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2023 9:02 am
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| Bill Sinclair wrote: |
| One thing I love about these guitars is that with the bridge so close to the end, they're physically a lot shorter than most 22.5" scale guitars and don't take up much space in the trunk or overhead bin. |
Another feature of the Dickerson and Magnatone MOTS instruments is the fact that they're featherweights. I've often wondered if it's balsa hiding underneath that celluloid. |
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Frank James Pracher
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2023 10:15 am
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| Jack Hanson wrote: |
Another feature of the Dickerson and Magnatone MOTS instruments is the fact that they're featherweights. I've often wondered if it's balsa hiding underneath that celluloid. |
I have quite a few of these and most appear to be pine bodies, one I'm fairly certain is redwood, and another I have is oddly enough maple! I think they used whatever was cheap and on hand for the student models.
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2023 5:21 pm
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| ...one I'm fairly certain is redwood... |
It's mind boggling to contemplate how many student model bodies could be cut from a mature redwood. |
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