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Topic: What is this? |
b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 7:22 pm |
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| Bob, I don't think anyone would want to admit to it. It's a 51, 52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61 steel gitarrrrrr! |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 9:29 pm Re: What is this?
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The pedal rack is backwards and on the wrong legs.
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Billy Tonnesen
From:
R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 9:53 pm
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| Maybe Gene Fields of GFI Steel Guitars would know ! Is he a Forum Member ? |
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 10:00 pm
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| Maybe it was commissioned for use by the official band of the Soap Box Derby. |
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Jeff Spencer
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 11:00 pm
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left handed? It say's the guy who made it worked at the fender factory. 
Musical prop??? |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 18 Mar 2011 11:13 pm
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I like the built-in HVAC.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 5:32 am
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| It's Milo Fender's old guitar. |
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 6:42 am
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I finally see how to play hot licks- heat up the pedals by placing them over a heating duct  . |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 7:08 am
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| Anyone know the real history of this strange guitar? |
b0b, are you suggesting that the description from Guitar Vintners is not completely true?  |
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Tommy White
From:
Nashville
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 7:45 am
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"What is this?" As Clark Griswald's mother-in-law said in the favorite holiday movie, Christmas Vacation, "See what an awful waste of resources children."  |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 8:30 am
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Middle school woodshop project?
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 8:35 am
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Now it can be told...Jimi Hendrix was a secret steeler and that's his lefty-strung-backwards guitar.  |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 9:18 am
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| Anyone know the real history of this strange guitar? |
| Barry Blackwood wrote: |
| b0b, are you suggesting that the description from Guitar Vintners is not completely true? |
I respect Jon King's extensive knowledge about lap steels, but the story doesn't jive with the pictures on this one. The mechanism is pull-release (not Fender), the woodworking is amateur hour, and I seriously doubt that it's a TrueTone pickup.
Frankly, this doesn't deserve the Fender logo. There's nothing Fender about it that I can see. I suspect that Jon was bamboozled by the widow who sold it to him.
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| It's Milo Fender's old guitar. |
Who is Milo Fender?
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2011 9:36 am
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| Milo worked at GM, bolting fenders onto pickup trucks, and is actually a figment of my imagination. Just trying to conjure up a reason someone would be so bold as to put a Fender decal on that hunk o' junk. |
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