The Steel Guitar Forum

How many of you have your name on your instrument ?

It lowers the value on resale unless your name happens to be Jerry Byrd, etc., but it lets people know who you are.

Buddy's name is on most of my guitars.
Jerry

Mine won't fit.

...and I suppose you won't take suggestions for a shortened version Charlie?...

..I'm with Jerry, Buddy's name is on mine too, and it actually increases the value that way..<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 05 November 2006 at 07:30 PM.]</p></FONT>

I have Jerry Byrd's name and inscription on my Magnatone 8 steel that he taught me on, and it's invaluable to me, as well as by many other vintage Hawaiian music legends.
Makes it sound even better!

One of the greats that graced my Mag was Waikiki steel/vocal/guitar legend, Sonny Kamahele, whom in the twilight of his carreer/life was featured on a local morning news show to talk history and play steel, using the late Mel Abe's blonde Stringmaster that Sonny had recently repainted black with a paint brush(!), over the decal and all.
The punchline came when the camera panned accross the front of the steel as Sonny played, to show the name Fender scribbled in black marker on masking tape, stuck promenantly where the old script logo was.

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I have an old sho-bud under neath it says "custom built for hal rug grand 'ol opry wsm" now the guy I bought this off of sold it to me as is and didn't know if this was real or a fake.

Well you could put Scho~Bert on your guitar!

My favorite Sho-Bud had "BJV" on the front of it for years and I never had a single person ask me who that was (or for that matter who I was).

Greg<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Greg Cutshaw on 05 November 2006 at 08:39 PM.]</p></FONT>

I always thought it was pretty tacky. Too much "look at me"....

well i have a black psg none other than a zum. and on the front in silver letters is my name "s.r.penton" it looks nice like it came from bruce that way. it don't lower the selling price if i was crazy enough to sell it because it can come off with out marks etc. you can use vinal lettering that way you can get what ever style you want in what ever color you want. i think it looks good, lets people know who your are etc.

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Greg... I most certainly could be wrong... but isn't that Big Jim Vest?

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Mikey D...

There's some guy's name stamped into the changer-end of my D10, but I don't know who it is...

I always thought it was kind of tacky, too. I think the music should be the draw, and if you're that great, your music will be enough to let people know who you are. I guess that's why I've always liked a band to have a band name, and not "Whoever and the Whatevers." Just my opinion.

We played a double-bill show a couple of weeks ago and the drummer from the other band had his name on his kick drum. I just don't see the point. It ain't me, it's us.

It seems like a pattern develops: The Crickets. Then The Crickets, featuring Buddy Holly. Then Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Then Buddy Holly. Same with Janis Joplin: First it was Big Brother and The Holding Company. Then it was Big Brother and The Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin. Then Janis Joplin and Big Brother and The Holding Company, then Janis Joplin. It's happened time after time.

Again, not saying it's wrong. I just prefer a band to be a band. No stars...just a band.

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ZB Custom S-10 (#0509)

I think having a name for the band gives it an identity so they're just not nameless. It's been customary for a drummer to have his initials on his bass drum but it was mostly the jazz drummers. Sometimes people/fans like to know the name of the player and that's as it should be. How many times are we posting right here "Who's this player"? If I wanted it on my guitar I wouldn't put it on in a permanent way. You can go to Kinkos or a print shop and get your name in script letters or any style you want and just put it on like decal. I used to have bass drums signs for every band I played with and everybody always commented on them.

I have my name on my guitar because I'm a sign painter and it has brought in business for me. Mine in in vinyl and I can take it off when I want to. Larry

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Maybe,I'll just scotch-tape one of my business cards on the front of mine.

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Buddy's name in on mine. Mine don't belong on the same piece of formica.

I don't think it's "Tacky" at all. In the old days some of my standard guitar heroes such as Joe Maphis, Merly Travis, Grady Martin, etc. had their names inlaid on the fretboard of their guitars and a lot who didn't would have hand tooled leather guitar straps with their names on them. One of the coolest steel guitars I ever saw belonged to Blackie Taylor (he still has it by the way) and was a Fender 400 which had been converted to a 12 string. The entire front panel was covered with a very nice hand tooled leather strip with Blackie's name on it. I always thought that was one nice looking steel. I remember one of Buddy Emmons old guitars had Buddy spelled "Buddie" on it. On his bio on the old steel guitar record club release, Tom Brumley tells about the first time he played on the Opry and the steel players had their steels in a room and someone saw his and knew was there because of his name on the front of it.....JH in Va.

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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!

What Jim Sliff said.

Unless you are doing the "if found please return" thing, If you are any good at all on the axe people will find out who you are if they don't already know.

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John Drury
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I have my first name on my steel. In the early
1990's my house was burglarized. They took most of my electronics, but the steel was untouched. I don't know if it was the name painted on it or if it was the weight (it is a fender 2000).

test

Hey, Mike - I wonder if pretty soon it will be, "Jerry Douglas with Allison Krause and Union Station" ....

Mikey D. , yup, Big Jim Vest and I never met the guy. My middle initial is J so at least one of the letters was accurate.

Greg

I would __ if:

But, there's somthing kinda' phoney sounding about the words:

Speedy Collins

I wonder which name, MSA or MILLENNIUM, was the guys last name? If I find out the answer to that question I can figure out which was his first.


Phred

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"From Truth, Justice is Born"--Quanah Parker-1904

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