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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/24 14:07:30
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Nice indeed Frank
Dothan Huh? I graduated from U of A in 80. My family lived in Fairhope and I was born in Mobile.
You play your super 6 much? I bought a 70-ish Super 6 about 5 years ago. I used to own a Quad Reverb and loved it, but sold it because of some girl. I still would like to have another. But the SS is such a great sound. Nearly impossible to move though.
Also, the red Strat with the red headstock - what is that? I have a STRAT model stratocaster - 1980 or 81 I think. Mine is lake placid blue I believe (light sparkley blue) with the painted headstock. But my hardware is all gold. The only red I had seen before was gold hardware too.
Some people call me Maurice SPLAT Pro lifetime, ADK 6 core 3.6Ghz with 32 GB RAM, SSD 1TB system drive, 3 3TB regular drives for samples, recordings and misc. Behringer X Touch, UAD Apollo Quad. 2 UAD2 Quads PCI (i think - inside the box whatever that is), Console 1. More guitars (40??) and synths (hard and soft) than talent. Zendrum!!!
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/24 16:37:11
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Hello again, this is my second post here...
Are there any vintage guitar/amp collectors here ?
I've been collecting old guitars and amps for years, some of which I have pictures of, on MySpace...
I've done a lot of "horse trading" over the years... (figuratively speaking)
Anyone else ?
Hey Frank,
That's an awesome collection you have how many years has it taken you to collect them?
Cheers
Mike
Thanks, I started trading guitars when I was a teenager... If I had kept all of them, I'd be a wealthy sob today... Now I'm just an old sob with a a bunch of old guitars... I started going to "vintage Guitar Shows" about 18 years ago... but I've kinda' lost interest in that... I'm more into writing & recording music now... Here are some nice old Kays from the 50's... 
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/24 17:07:20
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ORIGINAL: space_cowboy
Nice indeed Frank
Dothan Huh? I graduated from U of A in 80. My family lived in Fairhope and I was born in Mobile.
You play your super 6 much? I bought a 70-ish Super 6 about 5 years ago. I used to own a Quad Reverb and loved it, but sold it because of some girl. I still would like to have another. But the SS is such a great sound. Nearly impossible to move though.
Also, the red Strat with the red headstock - what is that? I have a STRAT model stratocaster - 1980 or 81 I think. Mine is lake placid blue I believe (light sparkley blue) with the painted headstock. But my hardware is all gold. The only red I had seen before was gold hardware too.
Allright, a homeboy... Well almost... Dothan's way east of Mobile, about 90 miles north of Panama City, FL... I got rid of the Super Six... Just too big and loud... It was basically a 100 watt Twin Reverb w/six 10's... "Maybe the biggest comboamp ever"... I'm more of a Prinston/Deluxe Reverb kinda' guy...   This Stratocaster was from a limited run sometime in the 90's I think...
I sold it on Ebay... 
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/24 21:22:18
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Now that is a collector peice! The 1908 Gibson. Catgut strings?
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 01:42:56
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I can't afford vintage Gibsons, but I like some of the old National and Supro instruments. The pickups look like humbuckers, but they're single coils, with magnets taking up the additional space under the covers. This is not a attempt to decieve - apparently they were patented about 1952/53 - 5 years before gibson started producing guitars with humbucking pickups. 1960 National Debonaire  1961 Supro Coronado  1959 National Stylist 
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 09:52:22
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Are you kidding? Those are bona fide vintage Americana... They are beautiful... Great pix Andrew... I love the VALCOs from the 50's and 60's I use them in the studio for all my slide work... Those big single coil PU's have such a cool vibe...     
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 12:36:08
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And the Strat with the matching headstock? What is that? Yeah putting the super six into a combo was just short of putting a Marshall Stack into a combo. But the good news is, mine can double as a coffin when I kick off. ORIGINAL: notnat
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Nice indeed Frank
Dothan Huh? I graduated from U of A in 80. My family lived in Fairhope and I was born in Mobile.
You play your super 6 much? I bought a 70-ish Super 6 about 5 years ago. I used to own a Quad Reverb and loved it, but sold it because of some girl. I still would like to have another. But the SS is such a great sound. Nearly impossible to move though.
Also, the red Strat with the red headstock - what is that? I have a STRAT model stratocaster - 1980 or 81 I think. Mine is lake placid blue I believe (light sparkley blue) with the painted headstock. But my hardware is all gold. The only red I had seen before was gold hardware too.
Allright, a homeboy... Well almost... Dothan's way east of Mobile, about 90 miles north of Panama City, FL...
I got rid of the Super Six... Just too big and loud... It was basically a 100 watt Twin Reverb w/six 10's... "Maybe the biggest comboamp ever"...
I'm more of a Prinston/Deluxe Reverb kinda' guy...
This Stratocaster was from a limited run sometime in the 90's I think...
I sold it on Ebay...
Some people call me Maurice SPLAT Pro lifetime, ADK 6 core 3.6Ghz with 32 GB RAM, SSD 1TB system drive, 3 3TB regular drives for samples, recordings and misc. Behringer X Touch, UAD Apollo Quad. 2 UAD2 Quads PCI (i think - inside the box whatever that is), Console 1. More guitars (40??) and synths (hard and soft) than talent. Zendrum!!!
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 12:54:57
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And the Strat with the matching headstock? What is that?
The Stratocaster (w/matching peghead) was from a limited run sometime in the 90's I think... (not really sure)
I sold it on Ebay...
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 15:53:11
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Hmm
I have a Strat model from like 1980 with a matching headstock. Heavy as lead.
Some people call me Maurice SPLAT Pro lifetime, ADK 6 core 3.6Ghz with 32 GB RAM, SSD 1TB system drive, 3 3TB regular drives for samples, recordings and misc. Behringer X Touch, UAD Apollo Quad. 2 UAD2 Quads PCI (i think - inside the box whatever that is), Console 1. More guitars (40??) and synths (hard and soft) than talent. Zendrum!!!
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 16:13:26
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 22:05:11
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Robby, that one sexy babe there, what's her name... Are you two together...
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 22:21:38
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ha! Witch one? It's a harrem :-) I didn't show my basses ;-) an Alembic Stanly Clark Brown bass, and a Warwick fretless thumb bass, they are both sweeeeeeet. I don't want to think about the vintage stuff, because I'll get GAS again, and I just can't afford it right now.
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/25 22:30:58
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 This isn't a vintage - it's a copy of Clapton's Blackie - 175 of these were made - I bought as an investment - I take it out once in a while and play it - but not very often.
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/26 17:51:43
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/27 14:05:29
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Here's a couple of near mint 3/4 cuties... 1954 ES-140 & 1959 Les Paul Jr.
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/27 16:18:38
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Newest member of the family! Vintage 2009 :-) JUST brought her home today!! She's not sleeping through the night yet :-) 
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/28 12:54:35
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She's sweet Robby... Are you going to set her up for slide?
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/28 13:46:11
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I'm more of an "affordable player" type than a vintage type, but I have three guitars that are potentially of vintage interest: - A 1967 Japanese classical guitar under the name Wilson & Sons (whoever they are) - An 80's Kramer Focus 1000 from Japan - A somewhat rare 80's Kramer Focus 8000 bass, also from Japan. Like the Focus 1000, it has all Schaller hardware and sounds amazing. 
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/28 14:33:26
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That thing could put yer eye out ! 
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/28 15:28:52
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She's sweet Robby... Are you going to set her up for slide?
Yeah, that's a pure-D Square neck, high nut, steel bar playin dobro :-) Always enjoyed them, and hell, it's a guitar? How hard could it be? (famous last words...)
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/28 16:58:10
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That's an amazing collection of instruments you have, Frank; it runs the gamut from funky, to cool, to outright beautiful.
For me, not to much in the collectors category. I have a '75 Jazz bass that I bought new and then Frankensteined beyond recognition, so that doesn't really count. Couple years ago a picked up a '78 PBass, all original and in good shape; this is very sweet sounding bass.
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/02/28 22:58:22
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I am a Fender nut. The only colored headstock I have seen (maybe I didn't look enough) was on "The Strat" model from the early 80s. I have one and love it. Mine looks like this (stock photo) 
Some people call me Maurice SPLAT Pro lifetime, ADK 6 core 3.6Ghz with 32 GB RAM, SSD 1TB system drive, 3 3TB regular drives for samples, recordings and misc. Behringer X Touch, UAD Apollo Quad. 2 UAD2 Quads PCI (i think - inside the box whatever that is), Console 1. More guitars (40??) and synths (hard and soft) than talent. Zendrum!!!
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/03/03 18:39:38
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/03/03 18:46:52
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BTW, what is the year delineation for vintage these day?
About 15 years ago I was told 1964.
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/03/03 18:53:52
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Frank
That collection of yours is something else, that would constitute a whole guitar museum over here.
Some great pictures too that red tortoiseshell Belmont I've never seen anything like before.
Great viewing....keep 'em coming they're all works of art.
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/03/03 19:51:20
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Thanks Jon... That Supro Belmont was a perticularly nice one, I actually wound up selling it to Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac) in Nashville a few years ago...
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/03/03 21:48:54
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Man, you've got some nice ones Frank, and the guitars are pretty cool too? I hope it's all well insured? Do you play the vintage ax's? Do any of them play/sound really nice? Or are they more collectors items?
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/03/03 22:13:17
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A 1967 Japanese classical guitar under the name Wilson & Sons (whoever they are) Basically the Wilson and Sons brand was used for Western distributors (Barnes and Mullins in the UK IIRC) and were the product of Japanese luthiers that went under the name S, K or H Yairi (there should be a label on the inside which will tell you) also the model numbers above 700 were usually the 'better' ones of the bunch. '67 must be among the earliest ones the early '70's being the most common vintage. Not to be confused with the '60's era, British, Wilson electrics (pictured) which most people owned because they couldn't afford a 'proper' Fender or Gibson, in most cases if the truth be told most players would have preferred the more glamorous American brands at the time even if they do swear by them now. These, Vox, Burns and a few other old British guitars though I would have thought have some nostalgic value now. Picture from: http://www.watkinsguitars.co.uk/ .JPG)
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RE: Vintage Guitar collectors ?
2009/03/03 23:36:59
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Man, you've got some nice ones Frank, and the guitars are pretty cool too? I hope it's all well insured? Do you play the vintage ax's? Do any of them play/sound really nice? Or are they more collectors items?
I do play them (the ones I still own) in the studio... I don't like to take them to gigs... I really don't want to take any unnecessary risk... I don't want to have to hurt anyone... They all have a unique sound and vibe...
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