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Topic: mystery double 6 console |
Anthony Hendrix
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Washington, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2021 2:28 pm |
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Hi, gang! I recently got this double 6-string console steel, and I am seeking info on it's history. It is made of figured maple and Brazilian rosewood, and it's Clarostat potentiometers are date coded to the 31st week of 1952. There are some questions I am trying to answer: Who made it? Was it played by a noted player? Although it seems likely that it was homemade (admittedly, by a skilled woodworker), the pickups have 8 polepieces each? If the person who made the steel also wound the pickups, I would've expected them to only have 6 polepieces. Are the pickups off-the-shelf, and made another known maker? Thanks in advance for any light that you can shed on this instrument!
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Noah Miller
From:
Rocky Hill, CT
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Posted 22 Apr 2021 2:39 pm
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| That looks a lot like a Magnatone pickup, and the tuners may have come from Magnatone as well. The rest of it... someone's home workshop? |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2021 3:32 pm
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| Modify the headstock. Make it a d8. Put a better bridges on it. Cool guitar. |
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Anthony Hendrix
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2021 3:43 pm
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Thanks, Noah! Armed with that information I have verified that the pickups, the tuners, and the controls are ALL Magnatone. These pictures are from a 6-string Magnatone picture that sold on Reverb, and the controls from a 1952 Magnatone Troubador that had the same pots and capacitor.
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2021 4:14 pm
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Pretty cool looking homebrew D6. The cracked acoustic guitar bridges don't do the rest of the guitar justice though.
I think the pickup looks a bit like a potted Stringmaster pickup but it's hard to tell. The tuners do look like Maganatone. |
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