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Post by Alan on Jul 14, 2006 8:16:53 GMT
Now thats what I call a cut away! item 190006531565 on ebay  |
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Post by marshcat on Jul 14, 2006 10:20:19 GMT
Since we're speaking of the wholesale butchery trade...  |
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Post by lee Holliday on Jul 14, 2006 14:15:10 GMT
Stuart,
is that what they call a tri-Kona ?
Lee
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jul 17, 2006 1:21:03 GMT
On a scale of 1 to 10 those rate low... Now this one has a really high 'what happened to that?' rating.. It was offered to me about 15 years ago, My origional pics at higher resolution clearly show a style 4, at I think $2,500. I turned it down and failed to keep the details over the years. The story I was told was that it had belonged to a 'favorite son' who had died in ww2 and that the instrument had been interred with him! How it was retrieved I never asked... I now wish I still had the serial #, it would be interesting to see if it was renecked and being loved again. I'm sure the first owner would have been happy for it to still be being played and loved. |
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Post by rickS on Jul 17, 2006 22:23:10 GMT
Cue song; 'Aint No Grave Can Hold my Body Down'..
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Post by snakehips on Jul 18, 2006 15:42:35 GMT
Hi there !
The archtop that this thread is about looks like quite an unusual one, no ?
The tuners look like the ones used on the very last Nationals, no ?
The body size looks the same as the early 1940's archtops. Unusual headstock shape ?
Not a bad buy considering the value that those Rhythm Chief pickups go for on eBay, just by themselves ! I was tempted to buy the guitar, just for that pickup (the Elmore pickup).
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Post by colinbrooks on Jul 18, 2006 20:28:11 GMT
The tuners on this guitar are the same ones used on most Hawaiian neck B6 Ricks. c. 1936-39. I have also seen them on top of the line Harmony archtops of that time. They don't work too well and they break, but many people in the bakelite posse are searching for them!
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