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Topic: Stringmaster? alert |
Mikel Nelson
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San Diego, CA
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 13 Dec 2000 1:44 pm |
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1)Yes it's a Stringmaster.
2)I can't tell the scale from the photo.
3)I believe it's got four legs. One is obscured behind the other.
This guitar looks exactly like mine--chrome pickup covers, two pots (volume, tone) and two square slider switches (neck #1 on/off, neck#2 on/off).
Mine is a long neck, 26". It is from 1954, making it as very early Stringmaster.
The down side is that if this is indeed the same as mine it lacks the pickup blend control on each neck. This innovation came along later.
I'd be interested to hear from someone else just how much they use this control to dial in their tones.
BTW--the ebay guitar is sn # 0463.
Mine is # 0703.[This message was edited by Jon Light on 13 December 2000 at 01:46 PM.] |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 13 Dec 2000 5:13 pm
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Looks like a 24" (at least) or maybe 26" scale. Early model (chrome pick-up's)?
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Gene Jones
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Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 14 Dec 2000 8:18 am
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The dual pickups and shape of the wood show that it's a Stringmaster, which came only in a 22.5 scale prior to about the middle of 1955. Afterwards they were available in BOTH a 22.5 and a 24.5 scale.
There's something strange about those legs though...it still looks like three legs to me. Stringmasters were only made with 4 legs! I believe that I'd check that out before I bought it....if it really has ONLY three legs, then it's a hybrid of some kind, or possibly a prototype from the changeover from the custom to the stringmaster. If it really is a 3-leg Stringmaster, it would really be a rarity.[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 14 December 2000 at 08:25 AM.] |
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Max Laine
From:
Pori, Finland
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Posted 14 Dec 2000 9:51 am
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| If you look at the other picture taken from above the instrument (just click at the thumbnail) you can see the two front legs protruding like on a regular four-leg Stringmaster. In a front wiew... the back leg may be just exactly behind the front leg or it's missing one of the legs... so my guess is a four leg missing one or simply just not showing! |
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Mikel Nelson
From:
San Diego, CA
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Posted 14 Dec 2000 1:01 pm
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From past posts...it looks like this has
a 26" scale due to the presence of 33rd fret position marker.
(26" - 33, 24.5" - 31, 22.5" - 29)[This message was edited by Mikel Nelson on 14 December 2000 at 01:04 PM.] |
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Cartwright Thompson
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Posted 14 Dec 2000 1:11 pm
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| It's an early (53-54), 26" scale(as were all of the early ones), Stringmaster. The early ones don't have the blend control which I think is one of the coolest things about Stringmasters. With it you can go from single coil to humbucker and use all of the great tones in-between. It also has the "lolly pop" tuners. Beware of these because if the get stripped ( as the bass ones did quite often), they are difficult to repair. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 14 Dec 2000 1:44 pm
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Mikel--I believe you are correct. My 26" guitar does have 33 frets and pics I have of shorter scales show fewer frets. Good eye.
Here's my guitar-- 
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Mikel Nelson
From:
San Diego, CA
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Posted 15 Dec 2000 12:51 pm
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Just got a pic from the seller.
No tone adjustment under the bridge cover...Looks like you're right Jon. |
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Mark Durante
From:
St. Pete Beach FL
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Posted 15 Dec 2000 6:42 pm
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 17 Dec 2000 12:51 pm
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| Just to add a little more context for dating, my triple is dated in the tuning plate cavity at 11-54. Of course it too is 26" scale. [This message was edited by Scott Thomas on 27 September 2006 at 12:15 PM.] |
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2000 1:42 pm
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Definitely a 4 leg guitar. If it was a 3 leg, the leg on the right in the picture (the left leg) would be further back for stability of the guitar.
Close observance and relativity study, will show that both front legs are on the same plane. So it just has to be a 4 leg guitar. I really believe the forth leg is directly behind the left front leg. and thus obscured in the photo.
carl |
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Johnne Lee Ables
From:
Minnesota, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2000 2:21 pm
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Hi All,
I am in the market for a 'Stringmaster' and I wanted to know if the asking price for this one on EBay is reasonable. Though I'd much rather have a later model 24" scaled instrument.
Thanks,
Johnne |
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