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Topic: What brand of guitar is this? |
George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 Nov 2019 10:02 am |
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A friend has this guitar and I don't know the brand. Who can help please?
Geo
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2019 10:10 am
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| Sure looks like a Fender Deluxe. Maybe a good knockoff. |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2019 10:13 am
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| Made in Japan circa 1960s - 1970s. Marketed under multiple monikers depending on where they were exported. One of the most common in North America is Guyatone. The Fullerton influence is most evident in this model. Nice guitar. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 Nov 2019 12:11 pm
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Thanks Glen, Jack and Doug. I couldn't remember Guyatone. I had a Conqueror model many moons ago. My buddy is happy.
Geo
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Noah Miller
From:
Rocky Hill, CT
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Posted 13 Nov 2019 2:26 pm
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| Tokyo Sound was the name of the company that built them, and they owned the Guyatone name. The brand varied not by country but by importer & distributor; Conqueror was through C. Bruno & Son, Aria did their own distribution, Buegeleisen & Jacobson had Kent, etc. and they were all available in the US. |
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Jeff Mead
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London, England
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Posted 14 Nov 2019 5:10 am
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These were also branded as Jedson and are the model Dave Gilmour played on the road with Pink Floyd around Dark Side Of The Moon era.
For this reason they sell (to Gilmour fans) for much more than they would otherwise be worth - I've seen them go for $800 or so. Of course DG's original went for over $300,000 recently at auction. |
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Tom Snook
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2019 5:51 am
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I had a red Aria brand like that one when I was in Hawaii, it sure sounded good when Jerry Byrd played it during my lessons. Mine had the blend wheel under the bridge cover.Nice little steel
ALOHA
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Dennis Saydak
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Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 14 Nov 2019 6:08 am
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The adjustable legs (wing nuts) are a dead Guyatone giveaway to me. Same as my early double neck.
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Mike A Holland
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 14 Nov 2019 7:17 am
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The first lap Steel Guitar I bought to learn on was this Jedson...and I still have the guitar. It was inexpensive and sounds really good. I bought a few of Doug's(Beaumier) books and really enjoyed the learning process of C6 tuning on the guitar........with one exception, It cannot or will not do harmonics. I have no idea why but at the time this was the only guitar I had and I remember spending a lot of time being frustrated with the plinks and bumps I was producing trying to play any harmonic!!!!!
For some reason I decided I wanted an 8 string and bought a Dynalap with an Alumitone pickup. It is a very good guitar but the thing I remember most was how the harmonics just flew of the fretboard so easily.......! Still do not no why the Jedson will not play harmonics but it is the reason the guitar never gets played because it is a good sounding guitar for not a lot of money! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2019 1:30 pm
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| Mike A Holland wrote: |
It cannot or will not do harmonics. I have no idea why but at the time this was the only guitar I had and I remember spending a lot of time being frustrated with the plinks and bumps I was producing trying to play any harmonic!!!!!
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Mike,
Here's my observations from the last page of the thread that Doug linked above. Check your guitar out and see if it might have the same issue. Fixing what I believe was a design flaw made a night and day difference.
"Far and away the worst sounding lap steel I've owned. Terrible tone and zero sustain, especially on the first string. I figured something must be wrong since I knew Doug's couldn't sound this bad. Closer inspection revealed a gap between the bridge plate and the pickup plate. At first I thought the plate must be warped but when I took it apart it revealed a solid ground wire between the two plates. Many steels use a similar method of grounding the bridge but usually it's a stranded wire that can crush into the wooden body below it. This one was between two pieces of metal and just served as a "sonic decoupler". I relocated that wire and drilled and replaced the tiny and inadequate bridge screws with some longer beefier ones and now it sustains like a normal lap steel."
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2019 12:26 pm
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| Sounds good to me Doug, of course you could probably make barb wire stretched across a 2x4 sound great, lol |
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Carl Mesrobian
From:
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2019 12:19 pm
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| Andy Sandoval wrote: |
| Sounds good to me Doug, of course you could probably make barb wire stretched across a 2x4 sound great, lol |
I've seen Doug do that at one of my lessons. It's an acquired skill and takes years to master.. 
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John Mulligan
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 20 Nov 2019 2:33 pm
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| That looks like mine! The only difference is my pickup covers are white. It perfectly matches pictures of a Jedson model. Somebody took the nameplate off mine, so that was my first clue it wasn't a Fender! If it's a Fender you would leave the nameplate on. Also, the headstock tuner hardware isn't branded. I like the way it sounds, and the price was right. |
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