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Thomas Ludwig
From:
Augsburg, Germany
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Posted 15 May 2006 1:19 am |
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look at this Auction on eBay (German).
Thomas[This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 15 May 2006 at 09:28 AM.] |
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Matthew Prouty
From:
Warsaw, Poland
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Posted 15 May 2006 4:19 am
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I bet this guitar was made the Monday right after Oktoberfest!
M. |
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Richard Sevigny
From:
Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 15 May 2006 6:45 am
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Looks like a definite oops to me. The body looks like it's been covered with fuzzy material. The pickup looks like a P-94, not an original Framus (could be wrong on that one, though)
I wonder if this has been "restored" and the "luthier" put the fretboard back on backwards  |
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Greg Pettit
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 May 2006 6:57 am
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The pickup is just a GFS P-90, as far as I can see.
How on earth could anyone put a fretboard on in reverse? Even a non-guitarist would surely say, "Hrm. Better glue this thing back on... let's have a look-see at any existing picture of a guitar in the world to see which of only 2 directions it should go...."
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Jude Reinhardt
From:
Weaverville, NC
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Posted 15 May 2006 10:25 am
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Logic might even suggest that the narrow end of the fretboard should be at the narrow end of the guitar. I like it. If I turned it around so the close frets were to my right would Faded Love come out sounding like San Antonio Rose?
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Roman Sonnleitner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 15 May 2006 1:14 pm
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I think, the pickup is original - a friend of mine has Framus lap steel (from the early 1970s, I think) that has a similar one, and I've also seen regular (non-lap steel) Framus models with that one.
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 15 May 2006 5:23 pm
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| Well, at least it encourages outside-the-box thinking... |
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Mike D
From:
Phx, Az
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Posted 15 May 2006 5:45 pm
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Maybe it's for a left-handed player. 
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Half-assed bottleneck and lap slide player. Full-assed Builder of resonator instruments.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 17 May 2006 4:32 pm
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| Maybe it was fixed by a blind luthier. I would like to hear how the previous owner sounded on it. |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 17 May 2006 5:03 pm
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| Maybe all the tunes played on it were from the end to the beginning. |
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David Knutson
From:
Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 26 May 2006 8:39 am
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| Doesn't that just happen when you have the negative upside down during printing? |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 26 May 2006 9:05 am
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| So now we know why the previous owner just couldn't make the dern thang sound right. Hehe. |
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