OTWIN" 8-string...

Fred Kinbom · From: Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.

What do you folks make of this?!?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7365052795&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Charles Dempsey · From: Shongaloo, LA

Interesting. I bet the bananna plug cord is supposed to connect to an outboard control box for volume, tone etc.

Charlie

basilh · From: United Kingdom

Nice find Fred. Take into consideration the cost of carriage about £35-45 and then customs put vat on the TOTAL..i.e. cost + carriage x 17.5%
So it's total plus at LEAST £60 is a realistic estimate.

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basilh · From: United Kingdom

Unless you have a USA accommodation address...Sorry Fred .. I just spotted ...

quote:

Ships to: United States ONLY

Shipping Cost
US $20.00

Services Available
US Postal Service Priority Mail®

Available to United States Only

[This message was edited by basilh on 11 November 2005 at 07:45 AM.]

Keith Cordell · From: San Diego

The reason the plug goes into the cover is that the pickup on those is hovering over the strings, attached to the cover. They are extremely thin sounding and you can hardly pick the strings or they contact the pickup surface and make unpleasant noise. I checked out a Framus lap steel locally with that setup and it was awful. It looked exactly like that one, BTW. Buy an artisan, it'll be a better guitar.

Tony Harris · From: England

Fred, I owned one like this a couple of years ago, although mine was a much plainer-looking instrument. My thoughts were: the sliding pickup gives a lot of tonal variation (it made me realise just how important the position of the pickup is for tone), but it was often just where your right hand would want to pick! So I had my pickup fitted into the body under the strings, like any other guitar, but this of course fixed the tone to one setting - which sounded fine. I found the string-spacing very close, which became a problem when I discovered bar-slants. I eventually sold it on. Interesting guitar,though....

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