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Topic: 1936 National New Yorker Lap Steel disassembly video |
Mike Busam
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2025 2:25 pm |
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Greetings... This video of the disassembly of a 1936 National New Yorker Lap Steel came up in my YouTube subscriptions list today. I just checked the list archives, and the topic of how these were put together has come up as recently as 2024, but I don't think there have been many (or any) videos that show the process of getting inside these instruments for repair ... Well ... it seems to be a struggle to work on these! I thought the group might find this video of interest.
https://youtu.be/X0sAzxsdYI4?si=zLY7Vm9JOsHyX6JJ
Take care,
---Mike |
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Jim Newberry
From:
Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 17 Jan 2025 9:39 pm
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Is it any wonder that they switched to a single string-through Valco pickup in the early 40’s? I can’t imagine how much assembly time those things took! Fascinating…
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D Schubert
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Columbia, MO, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2025 8:15 am
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What a classy work of art! I tried to open up and repair one of those one time. Let's just say it was not very successful. Some of the components fell apart when I touched them.
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Noah Miller
From:
Rocky Hill, CT
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Posted 18 Jan 2025 11:04 am
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Yeah, while I acknowledge that you can get inside these, I'm pretty certain they were not built with that in mind. National-Dobro seemed to assume that maintenance would never be required.  |
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