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CrowBear Schmitt


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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
Post  Posted 4 Oct 2003 12:32 am    
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the metal body EH150 that was 4 sale on Bay
is back on the block http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2562763503&category=33040
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J D Sauser


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Wellington, Florida
Post  Posted 4 Oct 2003 1:47 am    
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He could have pitched it to the next lower bidder... but anyway.
So, I read that only 96 were made... how comes this one is serial number 146? Did they start with #100?

... J-D.
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Russ Young


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Seattle, Washington, USA
Post  Posted 4 Oct 2003 6:59 am    
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From what I've read, the metalbodied Gibsons are E-150s; the EH-150 was the first of the maple-bodied lap steels that included the EH-100, -125, -185, -275 and the Roy Smeck Special.

All the posts I've seen from people lucky enough to own one refer to three-digit serial numbers starting with "1", so it appears that the first one would be 100 or 101.

There is an E-150 on display at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. The audio description says that the principal complaint about the aluminum body was that it got too hot under stage lights ... so Gibson introduced the wood-bodied EH-150.
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Robert Corwin


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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Post  Posted 4 Oct 2003 8:02 pm    
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How do you put a value on a guitar like this? I assume with so few made, there isn't much of a recent sales history to go by.

Are any of the price guides worthwhile?
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Denny Turner

 

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Oahu, Hawaii USA
Post  Posted 5 Oct 2003 10:19 am    
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Vintage Guitar Price Guide 2003 places a value for this Steel Guitar in Excellent condition at $1800-$2800. (The Blue Book of Guitar Values is another reference of lower estimates for anyone who might desire to pad wholesale ...but I didn't even look to see if they list this guitar). IMHO, on average, among brokers, for Excellent or better condition instruments; VG Price Guide was outdated by high-end guitars outpacing it's schedule as soon as it hit the press, ...while reasonably accurate in general as wholesale for median price ranged "stuff".

Aloha,
DT~

[This message was edited by Denny Turner on 09 October 2003 at 10:03 PM.]

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basilh


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Post  Posted 6 Oct 2003 5:48 am    
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The ones I know of personally have serial numbers going from 118 up as far as 207

see http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/003648.html

It just might be that they started at "110"
Baz. www.waikiki-islanders.com



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Denny Turner

 

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Oahu, Hawaii USA
Post  Posted 7 Oct 2003 5:13 am    
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BASIL,

Did you notice the F-1000 for sale on the BST board? I don't know if Ebb sold it or not. Thought you might have an interest.

Aloha,
Denny T~
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Chuck Fisher

 

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Santa Cruz, California, USA * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 7 Oct 2003 10:59 am    
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I wish this damn guitar would disapear before I go bankrupt buying it , it just too ....
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