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Topic: Unique steel for sale |
Wade Branch
From:
Weatherford, Texas, USA
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 8:57 am |
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Michael Strauss
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Delray Beach,Florida
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 9:23 am
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Yes, it was a kit and I still have mine. I paid $150.00 in 1979. It still works, but there are plastic holders for the legs, and two of them are cracked from age and just cheap plastic. At the time it was what I could afford. No way at that price now adays, especially when a Carter Starter can be had for a little more. (Full disclosure: I own a Carter S-12U and love it)
Michael
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Carter S-12U, Sho-Bud LGD (80's), Fender Jazz King, Korg Pandora Toneworks PX4D, Modulus Q6, Ampeg B5R, Lapstick Travel Guitar mod to lapsteel |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 9:35 am
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| I remember seeing those kits advertised in Guitar Player magazine, back in the 1970's. |
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Duane Reese
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 10:35 am
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| I saw that same one the other day... I'd have to add more levers, but it was tempting. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 11:22 am
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The case is probably worth as much as the guitar. These were "bare-bones" student models with practically nothing to recommend them but the price.  |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 11:31 am
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| They make the most wonderful fuel for fires when it gets cold in the winter. |
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Michael Strauss
From:
Delray Beach,Florida
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 11:43 am
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
| The case is probably worth as much as the guitar. These were "bare-bones" student models with practically nothing to recommend them but the price. |
Not really the case is not that good  
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Carter S-12U, Sho-Bud LGD (80's), Fender Jazz King, Korg Pandora Toneworks PX4D, Modulus Q6, Ampeg B5R, Lapstick Travel Guitar mod to lapsteel |
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Ernie Pollock
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Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 4:34 am Uh Oh
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Fortunatley for me, only one of those 'junkers' ever pass through my shop, I think that was back in the early 90's. It was just a horrible guitar, you could not keep a 3rd string on it. I got lucky & sold it, the poor guy that bought it has since passed away, probably caused by trying to make that guitar work!! Its probably been converted into a lamp by now, & it probably won't come on!!
Ernie Pollock 
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 8:17 am
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Ernie, that's one of the funniest things I've read here in a long time!  |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 10:00 am Hey!!
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Donny Hinson, one of these days I am going to have the opportunity to meet you in person, If you ever have reason to come 'west' to the Cumberland Md area, be sure & look me up I am sure we would have an enjoyable day, you have so much knowledge to share about steel guitar.
Ernie Pollock
From Way Out West [Western Maryland that is]
http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75/stock.htm |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 10:02 am
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 Yep! that was my first PSG.Kit,You HAD to be at least average with mechcanical knowledge and aware of how a PSG was supposed to work.Very cheap parts and poor design.Mine probably turned out better than most but was still junk.Would not stay in tune.But it at least got me started.I gave it to a guy that I didn't like. |
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Ron McLaren
From:
Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 10:11 am
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I LOVE this site, this thread is better than the 'Humour' section!
Ron Mc ( keep em commin) 
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 11:10 am
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Klaus Caprani
From:
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Posted 15 Sep 2007 6:54 am No!
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....That's the difference between "vintage" and plain old junk
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 15 Sep 2007 8:16 am
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Alan, what do you mean, not everything is collectible?
There is a vacant lot down the alley where the neighborhood collects all sorts of things, until the city truck comes along and hauls it all to the dump for us! |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 15 Sep 2007 12:35 pm
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I guess you're right, Lee. In a society where there are enthusiastic collectors of jam jar labels, matchboxes, bottle tops, and even dinosaur poop, we should be glad of the diversity, that not everyone is collecting the same things.  |
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