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Topic: 50s double 8 stringmaster |
Brian Echenberg
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted 22 Dec 2014 4:04 pm |
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| Hollowed out below in an effort to make a pedal steel. Plays fine as a non pedal. Email for pics. Fredechenberg@yahoo.ca. Tweed case. $725 |
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Jim Williams
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Meridian, Mississippi, USA - Home of Peavey!
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 5:00 pm
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There should be laws against such butchery. Got any photos?
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GFI SM10 3/4, 1937 Gibson EH-150, 2 - Rondo SX Lap Steels and a Guyatone 6 String C6. Peavey 400 and a Roland 40 Amps. Behringer Reverb Pedal. |
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Dick Chapple Sr
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Hardin Montana, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2015 12:41 pm D-8 fender
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This was listed sometime back with the pedal operating parts still attached. Pretty ugly underneath alright.
Question, how hard would it be to clean up and square up the angles and corners etc of the cavities so that a replacement block of the same wood could be cut to exactly fit the cavities? Would that possibly improve the overall value of this guitar and maybe keep or enhance its tones etc? |
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Adam Nero
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Wisconsin
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Posted 1 Jan 2015 6:44 pm
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How bout photos? Pretty simple in 2014.
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2 cheap dobros, several weird old lap steels, and one lifelong ticket to ride on the pedal steel struggle bus. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Jan 2015 6:52 pm Re: D-8 fender
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| ...how hard would it be to clean up and square up the angles and corners etc of the cavities so that a replacement block of the same wood could be cut to exactly fit the cavities? Would that possibly improve the overall value of this guitar and maybe keep or enhance its tones etc? |
...or you could go the whole hog and fit a pedal steel mechanism in it, in the hope that you would end up with a pedal steel that sounded like a Stringmaster. 
Filling the cavity with another piece of wood would mean that you needed exactly the same type and age of wood, and you couldn't guarantee that it would sound the same as it used to because the wood would then be a laminate, and strange things happen to vibrations as they pass between two pieces of wood that are glued together, no matter how tightly.  |
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Jim Williams
From:
Meridian, Mississippi, USA - Home of Peavey!
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Posted 2 Jan 2015 8:27 am
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I bet it still sounds pretty good if the pickups and everything else is original. In this condition though I doubt it is going to bring very much money.
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GFI SM10 3/4, 1937 Gibson EH-150, 2 - Rondo SX Lap Steels and a Guyatone 6 String C6. Peavey 400 and a Roland 40 Amps. Behringer Reverb Pedal. |
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