|
Post by twintwo on May 6, 2020 10:33:48 GMT
I've just noticed the page style 1 1/2 electric tricone on notecannons.com which states that National did a 'electrify' your single cone guitar and that they did a few tricones too so perhaps this isn't so important to go on notecannons.com however it is still very interesting and has a different construction to the 1.5 on Notecannons with the pickup attached to the well as opposed to the coverplate.
|
|
|
Post by Noah Miller on May 7, 2020 16:05:58 GMT
The conversion refers to this:
It dates from 1937 and later, several years after my Style O, and it uses a different pickup (the same one used on Silvos). According to Mark's book there was a similar system for tricones also using the Silvo pickup. I have never seen a National with the Tutmarc/Stimson-type pickup that appeared to be a retrofit.
|
|
walter
MM Forum Member
Posts: 9
|
Post by walter on May 8, 2020 4:15:12 GMT
That big, primitive horseshoe magnet pickup looks like the same one used in the '36 on National Hawaiian Electric lap steel.
|
|
|
Post by Michael Messer on May 8, 2020 7:16:46 GMT
Pretty much. I will do some photos for you when I get a minute and feel like opening my guitar.
Shine On Michael
|
|
|
Post by Noah Miller on May 8, 2020 12:05:26 GMT
It's definitely the same magnet. The bobbin looks the same, but given the difference in sound, it's probably wound differently.
|
|