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Topic: 1930's Oahu guitar |
Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 25 Apr 2016 11:29 am |
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Sixty some years ago I started on my steel guitar adventure on a Oahu square neck lap guitar. I really loved that old guitar but traded it off when I got an electric Gibson lap guitar. I've always missed that old guitar. I was doing some trolling on the internet the other day and found one just like it for sale. I made the owner an offer on it and he accepted.
This is an upscale Oahu with maple back and sides and a spruce top.
This is when I spent some of my kids inheritance on:
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C. E. Jackson
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Posted 25 Apr 2016 1:37 pm
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Erv, a very nice vintage Oahu. I am sure that you will enjoy playing and remembering old times.
As we get older, we probably get more sentimental about some of the items we had at a younger age. I started playing steel in the 1940's and my first electric steel was a 1949 Silvertone. Of all my vintage collection, this if the most valuable to me and will never be sold in my lifetime.
My father started playing steel on an acoustic guitar with nut extender in the early 1930's and purchased his first electric steel in 1949 also. I found one exactly like his first electric in 2009, and like you on the Oahu, it was a "must have" for me.
Enjoy the Oahu. 
C. E. Jackson
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 25 Apr 2016 2:02 pm
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C. E.,
Thanks for the reminiscing.
I even sold the little Gibson that took the place of the Oahu but I had to replace that guitar also later on.
After the Gibson I got a T-8 Stringmaster and traded that off when I got my Sho~Bud Fingertip.
But The fellow who bought the Stringmaster passed away after a few years and the widow sold it back to me.  |
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Will Houston
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Tempe, Az
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Posted 25 Apr 2016 2:12 pm
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| Good story, nice score. I wonder if thats one of the 2 that I saw for sale the other day "trolling", forgot where I saw them. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 25 Apr 2016 3:05 pm
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That looks a lot like the one I used to own. Great tone, but very quiet compared to other instruments. I sold it to purchase an instrument that could keep up with others.
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Steve Branscom
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Pacific NW
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Posted 25 Apr 2016 5:50 pm
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Brad,
I'd thought that a number of these were being converted to round necks because of their comparative volume. Is it this model or others that I'm thinking of.
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 26 Apr 2016 6:30 am
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Brad,
I'd thought that a number of these were being converted to round necks because of their comparative volume. Is it this model or others that I'm thinking of. |
I hadn't heard of that model being modified in that way, although I'm sure some people have done so. Those trying that modification would end up with a guitar with great tone, but if they were expecting more volume, they'd probably be disappointed.
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 26 Apr 2016 6:49 am
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The guitar that I bought has a piezo pickup installed in it.
Will,
I bought this one off of Reverb.com
There is also one for sale in Germany. |
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Will Houston
From:
Tempe, Az
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Posted 26 Apr 2016 9:42 am
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| I remembered I saw them at Antebellum Instruments. |
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