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Topic: Dobro year?? |
Larry Allen
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Posted 11 Sep 2022 1:57 pm |
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I bought this in 1970, never could find out the year? Serial number on the head end is 0126..great maple guitar, BL pickup, just wondering the year? Mahalo, Larry
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2022 2:03 pm
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| Looks great, early '60s is my guess. My understanding is when the Dopyeras started making Resos again that's the name they used. I love it, super cool. |
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Howard Parker
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Maryland
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Posted 11 Sep 2022 2:09 pm
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Looks like Mosrite parts and shape. 60's
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2022 2:50 pm
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| Unusual arrangement for inlay dots. |
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Larry Allen
From:
Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii
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Posted 11 Sep 2022 2:59 pm Dobro
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Different than any I’ve seen, where neck attaches there is a 2MM gold rope filling the gap, amazing player, Quarterman cone and D’Addario Nickle-Bronze..found it in an Anchorage pawnshop in 1970 when I got out of the army there..$1200…
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2022 6:43 pm
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| Howard Parker wrote: |
Looks like Mosrite parts and shape. 60's
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yes, I agree, I've heard that Standel, which was another Southern California company had a hand in the pre OMI days also |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 13 Sep 2022 1:32 pm
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Standel wanted to add instrument distribution to the amplifier business. This started around 1962. Below is a screenshot from Gruhn’s Guide with info on the DB Original.
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Larry Allen
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Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii
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Posted 13 Sep 2022 3:14 pm
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Mahalo to all replies..nice article Mark! 
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2022 7:50 pm
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It's an early 60's Dobro - but I have never seen one with that flathead slotted screw in the neck heel!
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Larry Allen
From:
Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii
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Posted 17 Sep 2022 9:16 pm
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That’s how it was in 1970 when I bought it..too crude but I just left it
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David Venzke
From:
SE Michigan, USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2022 4:10 am
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| Jim Sliff wrote: |
| It's an early 60's Dobro - but I have never seen one with that flathead slotted screw in the neck heel! |
I think this Mosrite has an adjustable neck. That is the adjustment screw. |
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Howard Parker
From:
Maryland
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Posted 18 Sep 2022 7:11 am
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Not an adjustment. Apparently they couldn't figure out how to align the neck stick so they used the "hammer" approach and bolted that neck down.
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 18 Sep 2022 11:33 am
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Again, this guitar is not a Mosrite. If it were there would be a Dobro logo on the headstock, not DB Original, which as I posted above were being made several years prior.
It has some Mosrite Dobro characteristics because when Semie Moseley first acquired the brand in 1966 he was selling some guitars made from leftover parts the Dopyeras had stored in a warehouse.
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Larry Allen
From:
Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii
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Posted 18 Sep 2022 11:42 am Dobro
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Next time I change the strings I will have to pull it and see what happens!!
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 18 Sep 2022 11:47 am Re: Dobro
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| Larry Allen wrote: |
| Next time I change the strings I will have to pull it and see what happens!! |
If the Gruhn’s Guide entry I posted earlier is accurate, your serial number 0126 would put it in 1962, the first year of production, and four years prior to Mosrite acquiring the Dobro name.
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Larry Allen
From:
Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii
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Posted 18 Sep 2022 11:52 am Dobro
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Mahalo once again for the info! This maple guitar has tone to the bone!!
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 5:36 pm
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I love old Dobros. 
It's an early 60s guitar, I'm sure. The "4 Row" coverplate is from the metal "fiddle edge" models made in 1939-40 only. In the early 60s the Doperas didn't have the pattern for the original-style 3-row coverplates very commonly seen nowadays, so the early 60s guitars used the late 30s era plates.
There was originally a large "pearl" dot that covered the screw head into the neck block on the back.
I knew Ed and John when I was a bluegrasser in LA in the early-late 60's, and like other SoCal players, they'd fix my old guitars at their shop in Compton... or was it Gardena? WTF, it was 60 years ago and I was a teenager living in West Hollywood. But anyway, Ed clued me in on various anomalies about the first guitars and the new ones then coming out. In the early to mid-60's they didn't own the "Dobro" name/trademark, so hence the "DB Original" and the "Hound Dog" appeared until they re-acquired the rights to the name from "the Oklahoma boys," as Ed referred to the previous owners  . At least that's what my recollection is. Ed was very gregarious and talked a lot; I thought John was very closed mouthed and kind of curmudgeonly.
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Larry Allen
From:
Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii
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Posted 27 Sep 2022 3:14 pm Dobro
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Up date..I removed the rear screw to check it out, definitely a 60+ year old screw..I’m sure you can’t find any with that large a driver slot any more..I made an abalone cover for it..
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