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Topic: Identify this guitar |
Larry Phleger
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DuBois, PA
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 10 Oct 2012 5:11 pm |
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I'll be interested to see what the experts come up with.
I wonder who Dick was. |
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Billy Easton
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2012 5:14 pm
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Looks like a Rickenbacher to me....although somewhat modified
Billy
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 10 Oct 2012 5:27 pm
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I'm pretty sure it's a Carvin that's been modified a bit.
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2012 5:48 pm
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| I'm with Mike, it looks like a Carvin. I had a D-8 that was a nice sounding guitar. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Steve Ahola
From:
Concord, California
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 11 Oct 2012 9:24 am
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| Notice that the centre neck has D I C K replacing the markers, which looks like it was done in the factory, so this was probably a custom job. |
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Matt Berg
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Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2012 10:58 am Not so fast, pardners
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Not wanting to be contrarian (I lie, I do like it), I don't think this is necessarily a production guitar.
The Carvin doesn't have the wood surrounding the tuners, they're more open than the DICK. Yes, it does look like a customized Carvin fretboard. But the pickups, if you follow the link to the closeup photo on the eBay site, have a unique wavy metal cover and slotted screw pole pieces. The Carvin AP pickup has a plastic cover and Phillips screws. Yeah, could be changed, but... Lastly, the electronics on the Carvin are at the bottom (as were all of their multi-neck guitars from that period), whereas the DICK has them off to the side to accommodate the tailpiece at the very bottom of the guitar, like a Japanese steel I have.
I don't pretend to be an expert on this stuff, just sharing my observations of the pictures. I'd be more inclined to consider it a custom job where someone was able to source the fretboard from Carvin or their supplier. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 11 Oct 2012 1:43 pm
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The steel guitars shown in the link I posted are from 1959. It's more likely they are from some other year - I didn't browse through the entire Carvin Museum to find exactly which year this guitar was made.
And, by the way, I love the name "Dickenbacker". Too bad it's a Carvin. 
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2012 4:21 pm
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In the 50's, Carvin sold kits and parts to build your own steel. They ran ads in Country Song Roundup and Hillbilly Hit Parade magazines. This could possibly be a combination of homemade and Carvin parts.
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Matt Berg
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2012 5:26 pm
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| In the 50's, Carvin sold kits and parts to build your own steel. They ran ads in Country Song Roundup and Hillbilly Hit Parade magazines. This could possibly be a combination of homemade and Carvin parts. |
Well that explanation makes a lot of sense.
Does anyone know about the rippled pickup covers? I have never seen anything like them. I wonder if they're supposed to produce high gain with more proximity of metal to the string. |
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Michael Brebes
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Northridge CA
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Posted 12 Oct 2012 7:14 am
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The pickups and the string slots at the end of the guitar are not features that are found in any of the Carvins I saw on the Museum pages.
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