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Topic: Salvaged Mystery Fry Pan Identification |
Asa Brosius
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Posted 6 May 2012 11:46 am |
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This was given to me after a gig last night in Ripton Vermont. Apparently it was pulled from a dumpster in the area- it's an 8 string single cast aluminum with a dead George L, and a single nob- tone? volume? who knows? It's a pretty good looking body- a few impact dings here and there, and a lot of fingerboard glue. I'll try some different pickups and strings later this week. Does anybody have any leads as to what this might be? Note the three triangle headstock motif-
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 6 May 2012 12:52 pm
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| Late 20th century Sho-Bud or Excel frypan. Nice dump find, bring'r back to life! |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 6 May 2012 3:08 pm
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Most likely a Sho-Bud frypan that has been fiddled with. 
Definitely not an Excel.
I have had both.
Aloha, 
Don
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Steve Green
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Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 6 May 2012 3:28 pm Re: Salvaged Mystery Fry Pan Identification
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| Asa Brosius wrote: |
This was given to me . . . . pulled from a dumpster in the area- . . . .
Asa |
Why can't this ever happen to me?????
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Asa Brosius
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Posted 7 May 2012 9:05 am
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| I hear you Steve- I've had the same thought for years ! In my fantasy it's been a Ric Fry Pan, but this is pretty fantastic. |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 May 2012 7:58 pm
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That's a nice project for you !! And worth the time & expense to restore it too  What scale length is it ??
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Asa Brosius
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Posted 8 May 2012 5:53 am
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were these models fitted originally with horseshoe pickups, or could this be the factory pickup? and what do the original fretboard/fretmarkers look like?
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Former Member
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Posted 8 May 2012 6:15 am
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Now young man, better'n just hand that over...
Don't want you to get hurt... 
If there's pock marks in the aluminum as if from the original pour, you've got yourself a Jerry Byrd/Shot Jackson very rare frypan!!
It could have had a Jerry Byrd fretboard, or it's one of the sacraligious post JB era "secret" FP's.
Either way, yes it had a non-magnetic horsehoe PU.
You could get a real magnetic HSPU from Lollar or maybe Rick Aiello.
Check this link:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=215469&highlight=frypan
You know, the more I look at it, it's probably a post JB. The body w/o the PU is almost for sure from the same builder.--Shot. |
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Wally Pfeifer
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 8 May 2012 8:09 am
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Does anyone remember the Chinese man in Honolulu that had a music store with records, guitars etc who claimed to have played with all the well-known entertainers? Every once in a while you would catch him in a lie. Had a collection of old 78s. At some point he had fake fry pans for sale. The back plate was screwed onlike the one shown in this post. But I don't know if he ever made an 8-string. I think his name was Chai or something like that. Used quite colorful language with every other word either GD or the F word.
I believe Hal Smith had a taped interview with him at one time.  Wally |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 8 May 2012 10:01 am
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| Richard Choy/Choi was Korean, and man, I gotta contact Hal and see if he still has that recording! But I doubt it survived the flames that could come out of Choy's mouth... http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/009309.html The old guy was actually one of the sweetest geezers I've ever met, he was just so pissed from decades of WW2 era racism and abuse that he'd bite your face off until you proved you were cool. I really miss him. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 18 Jul 2013 3:37 pm
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| What does the frypan look like now you've cleaned it up? |
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Chris Templeton
From:
The Green Mountain State
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Posted 19 Jul 2013 5:30 am In Honor of Jerry Byrd
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That Frypan was mine and it had a fretboard on it that was my first Tapper (that's why all the glue). I dropped it at the airport, in Seattle, and the fretboard came off and one of the tuners broke, as well as the volume control. Not to get into details, I came to find out that it is probably an "illegal" JB Frypan. Because Jerry Byrd is a hero of mine, I threw it in the dumpster.
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Asa Brosius
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Posted 19 Jul 2013 7:18 am
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Full circle- thanks for the info Chris- I wish I had met you when I was living in VT-Montpelier area. I'm very curious about what you learned about the instrument- pm me if the details are too incendiary for this forum! I posted a brief update in the frypan pickup question thread above if you're curious.
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 19 Jul 2013 8:56 am
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What an amazing co-incidence that one steel guitarist should throw it into the dumpster and it come into the hands of another steel guitarist.
It obviously doesn't want to die. 
Even if it is a copy, I don't think Jerry would be concerned. |
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Chris Templeton
From:
The Green Mountain State
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2013 9:42 am
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You threw MORE of them in dumpsters?!? I never follow the right people around....  |
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