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Topic: Gibson BR-3 Lap Steel '46 - SOLD- |
Dave Welch
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Latrobe PA USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 2:59 pm |
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1946 Gibson Lap Steel in very good condition. Looks like at some point the original open back geared tuners had been replaced with a set of Gibson Deluxe tuners.
The original pots were scratchy, so I replaced both the volume and tone pots about 5 years ago with brand new ones (CTS). At the same time I replaced the old tone capacitor with a good quality paper in oil one from Angela Instruments.
All else on this 75 year old guitar is original. When you play the guitar unplugged you can hear how resonant it is, as well as feel the string vibration throughout the body, all of which you would from a vintage Gibson instrument.
Plugged into a good steel amp the old original Gibson single coil pickup sounds beautiful... clear and punchy tone. $425 plus shipping.
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James Knox
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 4:46 pm
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I’ll take it Dave!
PM sent... |
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Dave Welch
From:
Latrobe PA USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 5:55 pm
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James, Thanks for your interest. I had someone who sent a pm about a half hour earlier than your message, will pm you to let you know whether or not it's still available as soon as I know for sure.
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Dave Welch
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Latrobe PA USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 6:25 pm Br-3
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Sale pending...
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Dave Welch
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Latrobe PA USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 7:32 pm Sold ... Please Close - Donation coming
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Sold and heading down the road in a big brown truck....
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Jon Zimmerman
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California, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 8:00 pm
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| The buyer IMHO, got a nice pkg, with all glitchy repairs done prior. Some very pleasant tones from a Gib ‘racetrack’ style single coil in this very resonant chunk of wood can either be very easy on the ears at low volumes, or snarly/blues laden at high volume. Nice score at this price. 😎 |
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