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Topic: Goyatone S6 body construction |
Jim Rossen
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Iowa, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2012 6:57 am |
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Seems like the Goyatone S6 Stringmaster copy guitars were made with both plywood and solid wood bodies. Were particular models(perhaps identifiable by components)consistently made of solid wood?
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Iain
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Posted 7 Jul 2012 6:06 am That's identical to mine, although
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I replaced the pickups with other Teisco-style ones and used the steel's pickups in a guitar (see pic).
As I said elsewhere here, I got the steel so cheaply (£25!) and had always liked the idea of a Strat with Cooder-style pickups, and had an old neck, so...
Anyway, steel still plays well (as you say, it's pretty primitive, but - like you - I like it) and guitar's fun to gig, so: win-win!
cheers,
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John Limbach
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Billings, Montana, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2012 9:43 am
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| Anyone have a spec or source for the slide switches? I have rockers on mine and its driving me crazy! |
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2012 10:26 am
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Nice Strat Iain!
Do you have any sound clips of it?
What is it like with both pickups on?
I have a bunch of these old pickups around here....maybe I need to get busy and do the same thing.
One of these days I may actually find an 'actual' "Cooder" type...
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Iain
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Posted 8 Jul 2012 9:02 am
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Thanks.
No sound clips - sorry.
It has a 4 position switch, so p/ups can be in series or parallel. Both positions sound good, but when gigging I basically either have one or other p/up on at any given time. It just keeps things simpler for me, that way.
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Darrell Birtcher
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Posted 22 Dec 2012 2:00 pm solid or plywood?
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Hello again Dina,
For what it's worth I have both and from what
info I've seen it appears that they didn't differentiate
the plywood ones from the solid ones by the hardware
appointments. If you see one that is stained with a nice
thick clearcoat on it then it is definitely solid wood.
Harder to tell with the opaque finishes. I have one of
each (solid and plywood) that have opaque paint jobs. |
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Darrell Birtcher
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Posted 22 Dec 2012 2:00 pm solid or plywood?
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Hello again Dina,
For what it's worth I have both and from what
info I've seen it appears that they didn't differentiate
the plywood ones from the solid ones by the hardware
appointments. If you see one that is stained with a nice
thick clearcoat on it then it is definitely solid wood.
Harder to tell with the opaque finishes. I have one of
each (solid and plywood) that have opaque paint jobs. |
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Les Anderson
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The Great White North
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Posted 23 Dec 2012 12:04 pm
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One Guya guaranteed solid wood.
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Darrell Birtcher
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Posted 23 Dec 2012 12:39 pm wow!
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THAT is the purdiest Guyatone I have ever
layed eyes on! I have a single 6 with that
finish but seeing that in a D8 really takes
the cake! Congratulations on a good find. |
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G Strout
From:
Carabelle, Florida
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Posted 23 Dec 2012 3:11 pm
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I bought a D8 Guyatone from Doug Beaumier back a couple of years ago. I believe that is solid wood. Saw one recently in a pawn shop down in Albuquerque that was definitely plywood but when I plugged it up there was very little difference in sound quality. Wish I had picked it up....  |
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2012 4:57 pm
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| What does the rest of that guitar look like Les? |
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Darrell Birtcher
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Posted 23 Dec 2012 5:25 pm Guayatones
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To all that have sent me messages about the
Guyatones that I am selling, I am creating
proper listings in the "For Sale" section
tonight, so please look there soon for pictures,
details and prices. I was overwhelmed at the
responses I got at the mere mention that I
was going to be selling some. Please forgive
my unpreparedness! |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 23 Dec 2012 7:23 pm
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| What does the rest of that guitar look like Les? |
It's a bit heavy because of the solid wood design but to my ears, it sound and plays great. (there is no room for a duel pickup on the long scale neck) As you can see, it is in pristine condition and was made (so I was told on this forum) about 1948 or so. So it has been well looked after. The only thing I would change on it would be to put coloured markers on the fret board. 22 1/2" front; 24 1/2 back neck.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 23 Dec 2012 7:39 pm
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Les, I'm pretty sure that guitar was made in the 1960s. Also, both necks appear to be the same scale length to me, it's just that one fretboard is longer. The distance from nut to bridge appear to be the same exact length on both necks.
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Mike D
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Phx, Az
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Posted 26 Dec 2012 4:20 pm
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What Mike said, they just made the neck longer on the single-pickup model, the scale lengths are the same.
Love the Teisco stuff in this thread! |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 4 Jan 2013 4:47 pm
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| If you had a spare double pick-up assembly it would be an easy job to shorten the fingerboard, route out the body, and end up with a four-pickup instrument. |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 6 Jan 2013 3:21 pm
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| If you had a spare double pick-up assembly it would be an easy job to shorten the fingerboard, route out the body, and end up with a four-pickup instrument. |
Alan, what I do most of the time is insert a bar in front of the tuning nut and screw out the bridge as far is it will go (at the single pickup) to change the tuning length. If you look at the picture of my Guya steel, on the front neck (longest)you will see two small holes on the first fret in front of the nut. Being that I don't look at the frets when I play, the fret markers don't play much of a role when I am playing. |
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