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Topic: Who Makes this BAR??? MYSTERY BAR?? |
Bob Bartoli
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Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 2:02 pm |
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it's a ten string, and has the letters B-S on embossed in the end, and you can see the filler material used in the bar..
 ,Thanks in advance. |
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Ryan Barwin
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 2:23 pm
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BS...could that be Bill Stroud?
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Bob Bartoli
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 2:36 pm Bar
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| That's what I'm wondering??? Possibly??? Maybe ??? |
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 2:58 pm
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| I have it on good authority that it's Bob Smith |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 3:07 pm
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| Bobbe Sizemore? |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 3:43 pm
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| Bertha Schmudkie? |
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Bill Stroud
From:
Dresden, Tennessee, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 3:48 pm Bjs
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That was some of the first bars that I made before the logo's, it's an old one maybe back in the 70's I hope it's still up to par.
Bill |
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Bob Bartoli
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 6:45 pm BS Bar
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| Whew!!! gald you responded Bill, looks like some of the guys had all sorts of names!!! anyway, it's kool that I have an early bar, that will make #4 of your bars Bill..they are the best!!! and yes the bar is still working perfectly...that shows the quiality even some thirty years later..Thanks Bill... |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 6:54 pm
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Wow, I had a bar just exactly like that when I first started playing back in 1976. Because of the letters stamped into it, we (the band & I) always called it the "BS bar" ... we often joked about the letters, but it was my favorite bar right from the start.
My first steel (an MSA Red Baron that I bought from a guy named Norman Gilliamwater) had two bars with it. The BS bar exactly like in the pictures here and a Jim Dunlop bar. This is the first time I've ever seen another old bar just like the BS bar that I had.
I never new what became of my old BS bar except that it was the first piece of music gear that I ever had come up missing. I was sitting in at the VFW club in Altus OK in early 1977 (not long after having bought my first MSA Classic D-10) and both bars were on my guitar when I went to break. Came back up on stage and only the Dunlop bar was left. The BS bar was gone. I remember thinking that if someone was going to steal one of my bars, why couldn't it have been the Dunlop bar instead? That old BS bar was a good one and I really missed it for a long time afterward.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 7:04 pm
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Bertha lied to me! I'll never trust her again!
Last edited by John Billings on 16 Dec 2009 4:38 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Dec 2009 7:30 pm
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| I still have my first bar like the one in the picture from Bill. Still smooth as silk. Jody. |
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Joe Naylor
From:
Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2009 8:16 am
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That is not one I made because if I put BS on it everyone would have thought badly of me.
Mine have no identifying marks.
Joe Naylor
steelseat.com
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 16 Dec 2009 8:21 am
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| So, what is the "filler material" that is visible through the hole? |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 18 Dec 2009 11:48 am
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| .....no...it's bob smith... |
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Greg Wisecup
From:
Troy, Ohio
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Posted 18 Dec 2009 12:56 pm
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I think it's Bobbe Seymore's. If there's "BS" involved you know it has to be his! 
Just kiddin-not really- just kiddin
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Bill Stroud
From:
Dresden, Tennessee, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Dec 2009 5:17 pm Center
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In the back I put a Brass insert in there about 3/8" long.
Lee I hope this gives you the answer you wanted.
Bill |
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