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Post by marshcat on Mar 27, 2024 17:12:25 GMT
My exploding palm tree tricone:
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Post by marshcat on Mar 27, 2024 17:56:03 GMT
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Post by leeophonic on Mar 27, 2024 20:41:02 GMT
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Post by vastopol on Mar 28, 2024 9:18:09 GMT
This thread is becoming a sparkling beauty for the eyes ! Thanks for these beautifull pics.
The grey wiggles on exploding is unreal.....................
I had to restore the fingerboard of an old "Metjazz" tenor banjo as only two pieces of perloïd remains when I found this one. The same factory built drums also, and latter became "ASBA".
It's not a champion in sounding terms, but he's totally covered with this stuff, with art deco engraving, splashes of red painting and airbrush, and multicolor strass inlays...super fancy...or "kistch" in certain ways...
It took me long to find six crucifixes with the correct veener (they made a lot of these in Lourdes France in the same period), because I don't want to ruin a drum to get the same material. (With all my respects; I personaly found the drum more usefull than the decorative dumies).
I bet I'm bound for hell now...like any bluesman; but the banjo got some more soul !
It seems that the chemical formula of this perloïd is very close to the nitro-glycerine (TNT) I even try to expose to a flame a very smal piece, with a green flashing result...
When you think about all those fancy drum kits, with animal skins used in the thirties... and most are fitted with very primitive light bulbs inside, with those cloth insulated electric cords to heat and avoiding moisture. The cleverest drummers let the light shine during the show to get a dramatic effect: the bass drum looking like a full moon... Very naive and uncouncious times...
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Post by marshcat on Mar 28, 2024 11:10:14 GMT
Ivoroid binding - for some unknown reason, on many instruments National cut the neck binding the "wrong" way - crosswise instead of lengthwise...
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Post by marshcat on Mar 28, 2024 11:34:39 GMT
Continental Style 3 tricone:
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Post by marshcat on Mar 28, 2024 14:05:57 GMT
National Chicagoan (the badge is not period-correct - the original was missing, but I had this one spare and liked it!)
A decade on from the XPT tricone, but maybe they were still using the same batch of MOTS?
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Post by Mike lewis on Mar 30, 2024 12:01:41 GMT
Hi there ! Do you mean Iveroid, or Pearloid/MOTS ? I have a 1932 Style N with Iveroid headstock veneer, and used to own the Acanthus De-Lux 1927 squareneck Tricone, which also had the Iveroid headstock veneer - but neither were Pearloid. Snakehips they never used Ivoroide as headstock veneer , I'm surprised that you did not notice that both of your guitars have pearloid headstocks .
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Post by ukulelezaza on Mar 30, 2024 12:14:37 GMT
Hi there ! Do you mean Iveroid, or Pearloid/MOTS ? I have a 1932 Style N with Iveroid headstock veneer, and used to own the Acanthus De-Lux 1927 squareneck Tricone, which also had the Iveroid headstock veneer - but neither were Pearloid. Snakehips they never used Ivoroide as headstock veneer , I'm surprised that you did not notice that both of your guitars have pearloid headstocks . Just a little honest mistake, I reckon. Oh, and Mike, speaking of pearloid pegheads... still thinking about your gorgeous style O uke!
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Post by snakehips on Mar 31, 2024 12:56:58 GMT
Hi there ! Do you mean Iveroid, or Pearloid/MOTS ? I have a 1932 Style N with Iveroid headstock veneer, and used to own the Acanthus De-Lux 1927 squareneck Tricone, which also had the Iveroid headstock veneer - but neither were Pearloid. Snakehips they never used Ivoroide as headstock veneer , I'm surprised that you did not notice that both of your guitars have pearloid headstocks . Hi Mike, It's been a while since I looked that closely as my Style N !!!!! I'm also surprised I made that mistake !!! In my defense though, the vintage National MOTS/Pearloid is not so in-your-face as the pearloid NRP use, or the almost velvet, lush pearloid material that was used on Beltona guitars. NRP's pearloid material is my least favourite, aesthetically.
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Post by marshcat on Apr 1, 2024 13:53:50 GMT
My NRP custom Style 0, complete with pearloid truss rod cover and pearloid fretboard inlays. Yummy.
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Post by mendax on Apr 9, 2024 5:43:45 GMT
My 1937 square neck Style 1 1/2
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Post by ukulelezaza on Apr 9, 2024 12:11:01 GMT
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Post by leeophonic on Apr 9, 2024 17:01:51 GMT
Tuner buttons look like the cast aluminium ones of the same period
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Post by mendax on Apr 9, 2024 21:25:52 GMT
Yes, they're the pot metal ones that always seem to crumble over time. I can usually date Nationals and Rickenbachers to 1936-7 when they have them. I have several instruments in which the original buttons have long since been replaced with plastic ones. I even bought a Supertone non-working lap steel because it had a complete set of the tuners in perfect shape for one of my cast aluminum Dobro Hawaiian electrics.
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