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Topic: $12 6 str. lap steels on Ebay |
Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 11:57 am |
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Don't ask me how they do it...
The Starfire by seller silverspringmusic is a decent looking basswood bodied steel with the (why do they keep doing this?) humbucker/tune-a-matic/LP tail set up, at an almost give-away price.
Few will bid on these, and they have plenty, so with the $30 shipping you have a starter steel for under $50!
Headstock is too small to mod to 8, but otherwise it may be improved with other inexpensive mods. |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 12:43 pm
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Ron,
Would you mind putting the website where you found this discovery on an URL?
A preliminary search on ebay found nothing, and a further search at silverspringmusic yielded nothing.
Your kokua please.
Aloha, 
Don |
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Rich Hlaves
From:
Wildomar, California, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 1:22 pm
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| I couldn't find it either. Maybe it got yanked due to a pricing error? |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 1:36 pm
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I don't know how to do that and the link is a mile long to type. That's why I put the sellers name, so you can find it easy on the site by typing it in.
Don, you got enuf guitars anyway  |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 1:51 pm
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No Starfire lap steel on eBay and the only seller I found with that name sold vinyl albums (mostly Fleetwood Mac.......) 
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Rich Hlaves
From:
Wildomar, California, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 2:07 pm
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The way this was posted I thought these were $12 buy it now guitars + $30 shipping. It's a real auction. No telling what they will get for these things.
I've seem these before somewhere. The controls are interesting. Two tone pots and a toggle. For coil split maybe? |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 2:15 pm
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| Rich Hlaves wrote: |
| .......a toggle. For coil split maybe? |
...possible but I was thinking maybe to switch between the two tone pots for a pseudo two pickup selector----two tone presets. And yes, there's no telling what this will go for.
THIS is their store website. |
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 4:28 pm
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| How good could it be for $50? Is it made in China I always say "save your money". I like to keep my money on US soil anyhow. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2009 5:39 pm
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I prefer US megalodon corporations to keep their manufacturing in the US instead of scamming it offshore to avoid paying millions in needed US taxes and taking American jobs away.
Plus I'm willing to give my $ to anyone that makes a quality product that the common man can afford since you don't find that too much any more here.
I think plenty of these steels will sell for the opening $12 bid. |
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Kekoa Blanchet
From:
Kaua'i
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Sep 2009 4:43 am
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| That looks like it's made of left-over cheapie rock type guitar parts for guitar models that didn't sell. |
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Charley Wilder
From:
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2009 5:37 am
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| I have played one. A friend bought one a year or so back. It actually plays well! It seems to be pretty well made and stays in tune. He put some fret dots on the fingerboard. They don't seem to think you need any I guess. One thing I don't remember is the switch and controls. It is a sort of coil splitter setup but I can't remember it exactly. It's a fairly long scale. I didn't measure it. I just played it a half hour or so. I could live with it just the way it is. Plenty of output, sounded fine! |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2009 9:20 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| the guitar will certainly sell for more than $12. |
But the smart/tight wad buyer will wait for the ones that don't get bid on and get it at the rock bottom price. |
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