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Topic: Why Would Anyone Do This to A Classic Instrument? |
Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Sep 2015 3:30 pm |
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Why would anyone completely remove all the hardware from a steel guitar with a perfect body in a little-used case? Where would they use the parts?
It makes no sense to me. It's just one of shells that I've saved over the years. I don't know what I shall eventually do with it. Finding original parts is unlikely, since to get them yet another guitar would have to be stripped. I've been thinking in terms of building a T8, using the body and modern hardware. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Sep 2015 3:40 pm
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Another, with a similar story. In this case we know it was played extensively by an Art Boyer, but I've never been able to trace who he was. Maybe someone on the Forum knew him. There's more information on the case...
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Sep 2015 3:42 pm
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Same story. Just who is out there stripping Stringmasters. And why?   |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 1 Sep 2015 3:56 pm
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| Looks like someone took on an ambitious rehab project and then quit? |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Sep 2015 6:06 pm
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Yes Len, that's what I thought, but they're all from different sellers.  |
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2015 3:34 am
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Looks like we need some of you talented guys to do some resurrections of these old hals,
JB
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GFI S10 Ultra, Telecaster, a Hound Dog, and an Annoyed Wife
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2015 7:48 am
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| Steel guitars don't bring the kind of money that old 6 stringers do. There are people out there who buy old steel guitars and rob them of parts that are interchangable with parts on vintage 6 string guitars. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 5 Sep 2015 9:57 am
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| I fear you're right, Erv. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2015 1:51 pm
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Selling the parts separately yields more than selling the guitar.
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Dr. Z Surgical Steel amp, amazing!
"74 Bud S-10 3&6
'73 Bud S-10 3&5(under construction)
'63 Fingertip S-10, at James awaiting 6 knees
'57 Strat, LP Blue
'91 Tele with 60's Maple neck
Dozen more guitars!
Dozens of amps, but SF Quad reverb, Rick Johnson cabs. JBL 15, '64 Vibroverb for at home.
'52 and '56 Pro Amps |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 5 Sep 2015 5:45 pm
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Until you get to the body, that is.  |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 6 Sep 2015 9:10 pm
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Alan, I think maybe you ought to stop buying weird beat-up old shit for a little while. It's affecting you.  You have, like, a whole room full now? a... quest? Are they.... do they... talk to you at night....  yet... |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 7 Sep 2015 9:01 am
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I stopped buying anything four years ago when I retired, David. Now I just buy essentials such as groceries. These bodies came in job lots along with other instuments which at the time I was able to restore. I didn't buy them in isolation. They're all stored in my sub-basement, underneath my model railway, which runs through two rooms and the crawl space under the garage. Now that I'm retired I have all sorts of restorations to work on, from derelict instruments that I bought many years ago in anticipation of having time to work on them, which I now have. The problem with retiring is that you have the time to work on projects that you couldn't do while you were working, whilst at the same time, not having the salary to fund the work.  |
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