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John Rosett
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Missoula, MT
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Posted 25 Oct 2008 9:53 am |
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I have a friend who has this Wright Custom triple 8. It has 7 pedals for the first neck, 3 for the second, and none for the third. The mechanisim is cable, and there's no knee levers. He bought it some years ago in Wisconsin. I haven't seen it in person, but it does look kind of Bigsby-like.
Does anybody have any info on it? Thanks.
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 25 Oct 2008 10:40 am
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| Don't have any info of it really, but it seems like a super cool guitar, much like what Vance Terry played in the early 60's and used on those 23 Club recordings. |
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Casey Lowmiller
From:
Kansas
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Posted 25 Oct 2008 11:04 am
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WOW...That looks super-slick!!! Any chance of getting more pictures & bigger pictures posted so we can drool even more???
Your friend has a real jewel,
Casey
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 25 Oct 2008 1:43 pm
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| Terry Crisp had one, back in the 60's I think. |
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Danny Sherbon
From:
San Angelo, TX
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Posted 25 Oct 2008 2:21 pm David's site
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Take a look at David Wright's website under Memories> Wright Customs
http://davidwright.us/ |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Oct 2008 4:12 pm
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I know these guitars frontwards and backwards, very interesting artifacts,
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Chris Scruggs
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 25 Oct 2008 11:25 pm
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Jimmy Day played a Quad-8 Wright with Ray Price in the late fifties (watch the Gannaway Grand Ole Opry TV show for good footage of this). Barbara Mandrel played a Quad-10 which now resides in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Cool guitars and yes, very Bigsby like.
Didn't Wright evolve into Sierra somehow? I'm pretty sure there's a connection between the two companies...
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 26 Oct 2008 6:29 am
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Here was mine, later converted to a double neck, (second picture.)
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TonyL
From:
Seattle. WA
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Posted 31 Oct 2008 9:51 am
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Here's one of my Wrights. It looks similar except with only 2 pedals on the middle neck. I'd like to see the bridge/changer end- not sure if I'm just missing the pickup covers, or if its slightly different.
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 1 Nov 2008 3:15 am
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Chris,
Your right, My Dad did create the Sierra,
This old Wright was built with wood necks and key head, I talked to my Dad about it, he told me he only built one or two that way...
I really enjoy seeing these old pictures of My Dads guitars  |
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 11:31 am reply
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| im interested in bigsby but i hear wright are bigsby like so now im trying to find a good wright anyone contact if you know of one for sale |
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Jim Simon
From:
Moses Lake, WA
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 1:18 pm
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TonyL:
Noticed the name on the front of your rig. Both Willie and his brother Bill Williams were friends of mine. Both played for Cotton Seed Clark in the old days in the Bay Area. Sadly both Willie and Bill have passed. Willie died playing his steel with a buddy up in Red Bluff, CA. I believe it was a Sierra U12.
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 1:23 pm
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Jim,
Cotton Seed Clark, name I hadn't heart in years, My Dad did some things with him, |
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Jim Simon
From:
Moses Lake, WA
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 1:26 pm
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David:
I miss you brother. The fact that you and I even know of Cotton shows how old we are. I hear you are doing well and are happy in Texas. I'm good with that.
Jim |
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 1:31 pm
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Miss you too, we need not to talk about age, I've got a little road gig with some youngsters, there all my Kids ages, now you talk about felling old  |
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TonyL
From:
Seattle. WA
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 4:29 pm
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I'm sad to hear Willie isn't with us any more.
When I drove down to check out his guitar I didn't know I would spend the rest of the day with him- drinking at the bar (!) then hanging out at his place talking about his gigging days and his stint at Sierra...It was quite a time.
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Lee Jeffriess
From:
Vallejo California
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 6:27 pm
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Here is my 64 D8 Sierra/Wright custom.
Lee
Last edited by Lee Jeffriess on 26 Feb 2009 2:10 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 10:00 pm
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| Jimmy Day played a Quad-8 Wright with Ray Price in the late fifties (watch the Gannaway Grand Ole Opry TV show for good footage of this). Barbara Mandrel played a Quad-10 which now resides in the Country Music Hall of Fame. |
David, here's a few of Jimmy's guitar, also owned, at one time, by Curly Chalker.
Got one of Barbara.
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 25 Feb 2009 10:38 pm
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I bought a four neck Wright around 1960, Unfortunately about a year later it burned up with the Jubilee Ballroom in Baldwin Park, Ca. (So.Calif.)
It looked just like the one's in the previous postings. |
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TonyL
From:
Seattle. WA
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Posted 26 Feb 2009 10:17 am
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I love the ashtray! Willie's T-8 has one too.
I have another D-8 that looks just like the Jimmy Day guitar...
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Harley James
From:
Longview, Wa USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2009 9:54 pm Wright Custom
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| Willie Williams is alive and well. I talked to him tonight after work, he lives in Battleground Wa. I was relieved to hear his voice after wondering all day if he had passed on. |
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Jim Simon
From:
Moses Lake, WA
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Posted 27 Feb 2009 9:42 am
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Heh Harley:
Must be more than one Willie Williams. I am glad your friend is OK. Sorry to raise your concern. The Willie Williams I spoke of lived in Hayward Ca. He was a steel worker by trade but played steel his whole adult life. I appologise for the mix up.
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Robbie Daniels
From:
Casper, Wyoming, USA
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Posted 27 Feb 2009 8:02 pm
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I knew Willie Williams of Hayward CA. Used to jam with him a lot. In the old days late 50s early 60s Willie was playing a Fender 1000. In the late 50s I had a Chuck Wright Quad8. My only wish is that I had kept it. I sold it to a Scottish steel player in Los Angeles that fell in love with it. Had a great tone, but all of Chuck's steels had great tones. Vance would get a new one every year, or at least it seemed like it LOL. Vance had one weird one that had pedals tiered (toe & heel) and Vance was probably the only one that could play it. Sorry to hear that Willie has passed on, but we all have to go eventually.
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Gary Walker
From:
Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 7:29 pm
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| On David's web site under Memories, that's my Custom if the right hand row and 9th down. The word Wright is white in a light blue strip. I took delivery of that in July of '63 when Chueck was living and building in Proberta CA near Red Bluff. I drove up in my new Black '63 Ford Galaxie XL Fastback and the hear in the area was over the top, especially in a black car in July. That guitar was traded back to Chuck in '66 on a new D-11 on a chromed Brad's Rack. I think the above Custom was sold to Jackie Smith from Modesto at the time. |
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Gary Walker
From:
Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 7:37 pm
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| On David's web site under Memories, that's my Custom if the right hand row and 9th down. The word Wright is white in a light blue strip. I took delivery of that in July of '63 when Chueck was living and building in Proberta CA near Red Bluff. I drove up in my new Black '63 Ford Galaxie XL Fastback and the heat in the area was over the top, especially in a black car in July. That guitar was traded back to Chuck in '66 on a new D-11 Sierra on a chromed Brad's Rack. I think the above Custom was sold to Jackie Smith from Modesto at the time. |
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