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Topic: Guyatone missing leg sockets |
Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 4:16 pm |
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This seller won't listen to plain logic. I tried to tell him the description is wrong as the leg sockets are missing. He contends it's a "lap" steel and it was made that way. He told me I don't know what I'm talking about. I even sent him a picture of a Guyatone with no leg sockets as they were made either way. Maybe if he hears it from a few others he will believe me.
item #150739589427
thanks,
frustrated Ron |
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James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 4:53 pm
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Here's something interesting. I've owned two Guyatone steels just like this one. The first was stolen and I still have the second one. Both have the same stickers around the holes as the one currently on eBay. I've noticed that every one of the blonde ones that show up have empty sockets and more than a few have had the stickers. The one you are looking at looks like one of the stickers is intact (not punched in).
Also, both of mine have finished holes and no sign of socket removal. I would think there would be screw holes or threads, but nothing.
What do you make of that? Is it possible that they actually left the factory with empty sockets covered up by the stickers? |
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Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 4:56 pm
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You tell a very eerie story!! Here's the smoothe one. So if there are no drilled screw holes, this would lead one to believe they left the factory like that. Maybe I just learned something!!!!
ron
http://www.gbase.com/gear/guyatone-lap-steel-1967-blue# |
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James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 5:47 pm
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Ron, I think the seller may be right. I've seen dozens of Guyatones listed on eBay in the last 13 years, and many of them had empty holes on the underside. The holes were painted inside, same finish as the rest of the body, clean, with no indication that there was ever a socket in the hole. I think many of them left the factory that way. Guyatone was probably using up whatever stock they had, some bodies drilled out, some not. The dead giveaway on this lap steel... it has it's original case and there is no space for legs in the case. 
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