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Topic: What Brand Bar Is This? |
Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 10 Feb 2007 7:46 pm |
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Last year I acquired a steel guitar bar from a "Winter Texan" (Snow Bird). I wonder if any of you guys could tell me what brand it is.
The end cap is black, with U.S.A. printed on the bottom of it. Above the U.S.A. are three symbols. The first looks like a lower-case letter u, with a straight bar across the top. The next symbol looks like a tall rectangle, except the bottom kind of curves to the left and makes a point. The third symbol looks like a tall letter D, except the bottom also curves to the left and makes a point.
The bar is 3 1/4 inches long and 7/8 inch in diameter. To my ears it produces a different tone than that of the BJS bar that I usually use. It's not quite as bright. They are both virtually identical in size. The BJS may be just a hair longer.
Any ideas?
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Greg Simmons
From:
where the buffalo (used to) roam AND the Mojave
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Posted 10 Feb 2007 8:00 pm
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Jim Dunlop?
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2007 3:58 am
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| Yup, that's a Dunlop - the letters are a stylized "JD." They seem soft to me - prone to scratching. |
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Bill Moore
From:
Manchester, Michigan
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Posted 11 Feb 2007 5:54 am
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| The one with the black label is made of chrome plated steel, the JD stainless bar has the red label. I have one of each. The stainless bar, red label, is not as hard as the chrome bar. |
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Charles Dempsey
From:
Shongaloo, LA
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Posted 11 Feb 2007 10:08 am
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Is this your bar?
I like this bar. The lettering is so worn I can't read anything but "USA". Always wondered what it was.
Charlie |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 11 Feb 2007 11:35 am
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No, Charlie. That's not my bar. That's your bar! But mine looks just like it!
Thanks, guys. I guess it's a Jim Dunlop. I can see, now, that the first two symbols create the letter "J".
I really like the bar. It seems to fit my hand better than the BJS.
Thanks again for the identification. |
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Feb 2007 11:54 am
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| I have an older one. If I put my thumbnail against it and turn it I could feel tiny scratches in it, it got so it was almost unusable. I put a buffing wheel on my bench grinder, added a little Mothers Aluminum Polish and buffed it out. It's fine now and it will probably last a long time until it needs it again. I didn't know the difference between the red and black one, thanks for that info. |
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Brendan Mitchell
From:
Melbourne Australia
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Posted 12 Feb 2007 1:29 am
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| I have a black one like that . I have been using it since I got my first pedal steel ,1979 , and it's still going strong . I tried an Emmons stainless bar for a while but kept going back to the Dunlop . I found out years later [thanks Bobbe] that stainless bar with stainless strings is not a good combo . I think that was probably why I preferred the Dunlop[chrome]over the Emmons [stainless] . |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2007 2:47 am
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| The big (1" X 3.75") soft one I have is red, not a hard black one. I seems 'grabby' even on nickel string,s even when polished - I usually use delrin or acylic bars anyway, anymore. I have a BJS but the little jewel in the end messes with my Easleyisms. |
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