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Doug Freeman
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Los Angeles, CA
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Posted 30 Jul 2009 10:03 am |
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| Just received a bar from Marty that's gorgeous. I wanted one 13/16", in between the commonly available 3/4" and 7/8", and he nailed it. Thanks, Marty! |
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Marty Smith
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California
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 3:26 pm
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Doug ,thats what Smith Steels are about.
Heres a Bigsby style bar before it gets cut off.
The short one is a Bigsby
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 24 Aug 2009 9:17 pm
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Let me know when you recive your bar if its ok,I will make sure your happy with it.
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Steve English
From:
Baja, Arizona
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Posted 28 Aug 2009 9:03 am
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I'm adding my name to the list of happy customers of Marty Smith.
I've posted my thanks and appreciation in a couple of other posts, but wanted to bump this one up also.
Thanks again Marty!
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 30 Aug 2009 8:04 am Titanium Bars
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| Someone just asked for Titanium bar , I can and will make them as well. |
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Bobby Burns
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2009 9:47 am
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| Marty, what would a titanium bar be like? Would it be lighter, harder to scratch? More expensive? |
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 30 Aug 2009 2:08 pm
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Titianium mostly would have its own tone.and cost would be about double. Remember its very light. You will have to try one to see,
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Mark Treepaz
From:
Hamburg, New York USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 5:21 am
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Marty,
When you get a chance, please check your email.
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Stanley Benoit
From:
New Iberia,Louisiana, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 3:05 pm Custom bars
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Marty, Do you have the specs on the two bars I got from you? If you do I need one more like the number 2 bar only lighter and 1/4 inch longer. These are the best bars around. Stanley
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Jesse Leite
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 3:19 pm
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Hi Marty,
Do you get them chrome coated? What are the advantages and disadvantages to chrome coatings on bars?
Also, your bars are hardened? Do you know what rockwell value they are hardened to?
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 17 Sep 2009 6:21 pm
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Jesse,
I normally dont chrome, but I can. I only burnish harden since I usallly use 303 and 304 . I dont know the exach hardness about Rockwell c40-45. I dont like the way the super hard bars sound, and I think any harder that this is just good for poor handeling like droping the bar on the concrete.But if thats what you want I CAN do it.
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Thomas Butler
From:
Robbinsdale, MN
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Posted 25 Sep 2009 5:44 am marty smith
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I just received the 1" bar -It's so shiny!
Thanks Marty! |
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Pat Goodbla
From:
Longview, Washington
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Posted 20 Oct 2009 8:55 am PM Sent
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Marty....
PM and email sent.
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Steve Bonner
From:
Plano Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2009 10:41 am
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Howdy Marty, looks like you can make any kind of bar in the world. So how 'bout one that will make me sound just like Jimmy Day?  |
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 20 Oct 2009 3:22 pm
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| Steve, just email all the specs. |
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 17 Mar 2010 8:13 pm
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New designs are in the works!
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 15 Apr 2010 3:41 pm
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Ransom Beers
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Posted 15 Apr 2010 5:59 pm
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| Im a machinist ( 37 1/2 yrs.retired) I've made a lot of things,everything from space ships to lawn mowers but never made a bar,especially a tapered one,been in a lot of bars.They weren't tapered when I went in but were slightly askew when I left. |
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Ransom Beers
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Posted 16 Apr 2010 10:11 am
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| Bump! |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2010 12:42 pm
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Here's a couple shots of the bar Marty made for me, it's a "normal" 1" X 3 3/8" but only 5.5 oz - zip, zip, zippie. It's pictured with an old 70's Harris slide and one of my bronze machine-bearing numbers (named "My Big Johnson" for apocryphal reasons), because if you sawed off Marty's bar to about 2 1/2" it'd be a wicked guitar slide. But I like it the way it is.
slide-porn, wot next |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 31 May 2010 10:25 am
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I'm still waiting for bar to show up  I'm driving my goldfish nutz pacing around the room.
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 2 Jun 2010 10:22 pm
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bump 
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 4 Jun 2010 12:07 pm
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Still no bar for me?Wha! Wha! Wha!
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 7 Jun 2010 8:28 pm
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Tony Kotula
From:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2010 8:16 am Marty Smith
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HEY MARTY... WHERE'S MY BAR??
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