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Ray Montee


From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2009 8:46 pm    
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Is it a BIGSBY or WRIGHT or what?

Another underneath photo is posted in non-pedals section.




Some mechanic appears to have gone wild with this one.
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Lee Jeffriess

 

From:
Vallejo California
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2009 9:08 pm    
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I would say it started life, as a late 50's Wright Custom.
Lee
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Ray Montee


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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2009 9:16 pm     Thank You
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THANK YOU so very much..........

Does that look like a custom job to YOU? OR, a half-vast project?
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Lee Jeffriess

 

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Vallejo California
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2009 9:24 pm    
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To be honest Ray I cant tell the pics are poor.
I had a non pedal Wright Quad, identical to this one.
I think this model of Wright is from about 58.
This one may have originally been a pedal guitar, but not with those mechanics and pedals.
Lee
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Gwyneth Morgan

 

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Maryland, USA
Post  Posted 28 Apr 2009 3:33 am    
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I know it's fuzzy, but I sort of think the lettering on the front of the case in the second pic looks like it says Bigsby.
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Rich Peterson


From:
Moorhead, MN
Post  Posted 28 Apr 2009 6:57 am    
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If it is a conversion to pedal, it appears to be well done. But where's the forklift for getting it to the gig?
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Doug Beaumier


From:
Northampton, MA
Post  Posted 28 Apr 2009 8:00 am    
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Looks like an old Wright Quad with a Bigsby logo on the front. Probably a cable guitar originally, converted to rods.

Compare the pictures:


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Casey Lowmiller

 

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Kansas
Post  Posted 28 Apr 2009 12:09 pm    
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WOW!!!

I would love to have that beauty...I wouldn't love to have a hernia & ruptured discs from toting it around. Seems like a musicroom steel to me. Set it and forget it!!! LoL

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