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Post by Russ Young on Aug 15, 2006 4:01:09 GMT
Andy -- I love it ... keep experimenting! I'm more than a little curious about this 2005 Delta "Tom Doughty Signature Model." I would assume that the "headless" design is to make it easy for Tom to tune the guitar from his chair?
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Post by Ian McWee on Aug 15, 2006 8:10:26 GMT
Hi Russ! You got it in one . John Alderson (Delta) and Tom designed this guitar together in the 'traditional' way.....drawn on a paper napkin while appearing at the Swindon Blues Weekend in '05. As you know, Tom struggles with constant tuning duties from his chair, and having to keep stretching across the body of his tri-cone was causing him pain (and the worry of a '29 tri-cone flying across a crowded room ), so John created a headless design to allow him easy tuning without resorting to his usual 'guitar aerobics' ;D! Slide On! Ian. www.diamondbottlenecks.com
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Post by Russ Young on Aug 15, 2006 13:41:06 GMT
Thanks, Ian. Jerry Douglas and Tim Scheerhorn collaborated on a headless dobro a few years ago, but their reason is not so clear to me: "Because no one else had?" "We didn't have enough wood to make a headstock?" "Because we could?" (Keep in mind that one of Bob Brozman's tricones is engraved with the words , "Just because you can doesn't mean you should!")
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Post by Russ Young on Aug 25, 2006 22:22:59 GMT
Here's another try at a "reversible" reso:
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 27, 2006 11:55:29 GMT
A double-sided Dobro .....Nice! I am sure it was built as a novelty idea....it must have been?
Keep 'em coming!
Shine On, Michael
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Post by Tonella on Oct 4, 2006 10:58:37 GMT
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Post by Tonella on Oct 4, 2006 11:04:33 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on Oct 5, 2006 10:35:37 GMT
Hi Tonella,
Thanks for the photos' - well done, it looks great! Are you happy with the tone....what kind of music do you play on it?
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Tonella on Oct 5, 2006 15:40:04 GMT
Hi Michael, thank you by the coments. I try to play the old blues, country blues, or something like. Brasil is not a good place to play the old blues, but... I do you have interest, i put a sounds on myspace. I play on a acoustic trio, with MJH, Blind Blake, Taj Mahal, Robert Johnson and other on repertoire. www.myspace.com/petonellaand the trio www.myspace.com/theowerneckbluestrioThank you, excuse my english, it´s like a Alien...
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Post by Russ Young on Oct 8, 2006 16:10:17 GMT
Here's another unique reso, described as a "nickel silver single cone Hawaiian guitar:" The builder is Thomas Emmett Owen of Wailua Instruments, who lives on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and builds -- among others -- Weissenborn-style guitars, Knutsen-inspired harp guitars and hollow-neck wooden tricones: www.wailua-instruments.com/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2006 2:35:05 GMT
The Dalanta
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2006 13:16:28 GMT
Here's one owned for a brief time by my friend, Vince Motel: He bought it in a pawn shop for $150 and sold it soon after for considerably more than that. I suspect someone played it in church since it's been sanctified with a white paint job. ;D
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Post by Michael Messer on Oct 12, 2006 9:54:14 GMT
Hi Doc540,
The guitar you are showing us is a Supro Collegian made by National - and the white/cream paint job is the original finish. Sorry....but it was not sanctified in church....it's meant to be that colour! I will hunt out the catalogue reference and post it here.
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Michael Messer on Oct 12, 2006 10:20:17 GMT
Here you go.....1942 National catalogue ....page 8. One white/cream painted Collegian! Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Michael Messer on Oct 12, 2006 11:28:54 GMT
Here is a white painted mandolin from the late 1920s. So the white painted finish has appeared on a couple of National branded instruments over the years. This one is part of the Notecannons collection in Canada. Shine On, Michael.
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