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Topic: Budget Stringmaster 6 string project guitar |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Martin Curnan
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Lihue, Kauai
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Posted 1 Sep 2018 11:09 am Replacement Parts |
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| Thanks to the “ EBay Guy “someone will be able to have a nice steel guitar. |
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2018 11:34 am
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| I doubt that any of the parts are Fender. Based on the tuner pan, legs and case, I think this was probably a Japanese knock-off that someone made a nicer body for. Regardless, I think it's a good price for a nice looking steel with legs and a case. Other opinions? |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 1 Sep 2018 12:01 pm
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I agree with Bill. The parts are definitely Japanese... Aria, Guyatone, Conqueror, etc. The dead giveaways are the tuner buttons, the pickups, and the legs with the thumbscrews. Not sure about the body. If it's mahogany, as stated in the description, it's not Japanese. Probably a homemade Fender knockoff.
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Martin Curnan
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Lihue, Kauai
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Posted 1 Sep 2018 12:04 pm
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I agree about the Japanese knockoff. I did.
acquire one without the tuner pan a couple of years ago. However I eventually found a Fender tuner pan on eBay. |
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Ian McLatchie
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Sechelt, British Columbia
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Posted 1 Sep 2018 5:35 pm
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| I had the identical guitar (same case, too) with the Granada brand. Guyatone-made, I assume. Butterscotch finish. The pickups, which I eventually sold on the Forum, were actually pretty good; the wood, not so much. In the lower register the instrument sounded excellent, but above the twelfth fret the tone was muffled and the sustain poor. I got the guitar in a Toronto music store for not much more than a hundred bucks, as I remember. The case provided a handy replacement for a Fender Deluxe 6, the original having been split open by a fireman's axe. But that's another story. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 2 Sep 2018 2:44 am
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Interesting. So did somebody replace the original Guyatone body with a mahogany body?
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Ian McLatchie
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Posted 2 Sep 2018 9:33 am
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| Did somebody replace the original body? That's a good question. Given that the jack plate is definitely a replacement by someone with some woodworking skill, I'd guess that to be the case. It's been quite a few years since I owned the Granada but I'm pretty sure the wood did not look like mahogany, certainly not as tight-grained as this. With a rewind this will probably be a really good sounding instrument. |
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