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Rick Anderson
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Niskayuna, NY USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 6:40 pm |
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Does anybody remember the Micro-fret guitar?
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 6:46 pm
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Yeah, I had one of the basses. Really ahead of their time.
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Rick Anderson
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Niskayuna, NY USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 6:53 pm
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I think I remember Jack Green's guitar player back in73-74 had one. he was a small guy really great player I think he had a echoplex too. Good days great memories
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Dale Lee
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Down Yonder
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 7:31 pm
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I still have one of the basses.
And Clyde, If my memory isn't playing tricks on me, I think I used to see the bass player at the Pork Palace Opry House playing one. Could that be right? If so, maybe it was yours. |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 7:39 pm
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you're pretty sharp, Dale. That was the one I had. James Earl Stox loved to play it and I finally swapped him for his '62 Fender Jazz.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 1:51 am
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I remember the Microfret guitars when I lived in Laurel, MD. They were made in (I think) either Frederick or Hagerstown, MD. The nut for the 3rd string (G) was adjustable.
Leon Rhodes was the Nashville "distributer" at one time. |
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Tim Hurst
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Newport, TN
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Rich Peterson
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Moorhead, MN
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 9:31 am
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| Great to see Micro-Frets getting a re-do. I think part of their demise was the rise of styles with more string bending leading players to want higher frets. But the Micro-Frets guitars were fantastic for guys who could pick at supersonic speeds. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 9:43 am
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One of the most under-rated music companies/products ever. http://microfrets.homestead.com/guitars.html
Ahead of their time? More likely a victim of a typically lagging public mass. The company was vindicated and hearalded long ago, and still nobody noticed.
While I've seen a few unspectacular examples, most were of quite professional quality and unique looks.
I had a superb red Husky bass, and the ultimate version of The Orbiter, for decades the wildest looker who's excentric curves were actually designed for comfort, and was also the world's first transmitter/wireless guitar. Mine came in a nice 3 tone standard burst. http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2009/12/micro-frets-orbiter-first-wireless.html Missing from the pictured example is the bullet shaped transmitter that sat at the end of the left-upper bout and had a squiggly metal 'antenna' extending from the tip. Good luck finding one of those!
Always wanted a Huntington, just missing some killer examples when they were still very affordable.
They designed some truly innovative parts, including a spacey Bigsby-esque well working vibrato and a second much different but equally fine version, and eventually made their own excellant pickups.
If any guitar company deserved to be pulled from the ashes and correctly reborn, it was Micro-Frets, and it look's like it's been done right.
Lot's of straight info from a former top employee http://www.guitarattack.com/microfrets/microfrets.htm
Here's The Killer doing his thing, and Carl with possibly a custom color Huntington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1Y1ekHhF8 |
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