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Post by resonatorman on May 14, 2014 1:57:26 GMT
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Post by billyclaire on May 14, 2014 13:00:03 GMT
Looks nice... bidding is up to $12.50
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Post by Brad Bechtel on May 14, 2014 15:01:15 GMT
Years ago, I corresponded with a man in Australia who had picked up a Don at a boot sale for his kids to play around with. He was just interested in finding out who "Don" was. He was shocked to learn what he had bought was actually valuable!I told him to hang on to the guitar and use it to pay for his child's college education!
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Post by resonatorman on May 14, 2014 18:50:23 GMT
Does anyone KNOW who Don was?? I guess not...
That's a great story, Brad. Just of the kind "guy bought a NOS National Cone "that somehow never sounded right" and was too heavy anyway...until he discovered it was 2 cones sticking together"!
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Post by zak71 on May 14, 2014 18:57:13 GMT
Since National was fond of using Spanish names (Rosita, Havana, El Trovador...) I always took "Don" as meaning the deferential title "Sir" as used in Spanish to specify a nobleman.
I doubt that it was named after a specific "person" (or Mafia boss haha).
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Post by bluesdude on May 14, 2014 21:14:39 GMT
Does anyone KNOW who Don was?? I guess not... That's a great story, Brad. Just of the kind "guy bought a NOS National Cone "that somehow never sounded right" and was too heavy anyway...until he discovered it was 2 cones sticking together"! I'm the guy who bought the National cone/cones!! greatest find of my life , in a music store in Greenville South Carolina, but I discoverd it was two cones before I ever tried them in a guitar!LOL Kenny, |
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Post by resonatorman on May 14, 2014 21:48:18 GMT
I'm the guy who bought the National cone/cones!! So this story is true! Can you tell us how these sound like? |
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Post by bluesdude on May 15, 2014 8:32:20 GMT
Hey Resonator man, they sound great! they have been used since 89 in my 34 Duo and a wood body NRP, kind of like a hot rod cone, maybe a little sweeter/warmer,but much louder than any vintage cone I've tried,
Kenny,
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Post by tobi on May 15, 2014 10:57:29 GMT
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Post by resonatorman on May 16, 2014 11:41:55 GMT
hey, what a coincidence - Unbelievable! Of 106 made... Hey bluesdude, is it safe to say that the Hotrod cones sound much like the original vintage ones WHEN THESE WERE NEW? |
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 16, 2014 20:09:16 GMT
I doubt the neck has been replaced, far more likely it was a square neck and it has been 'reshaped' to 'round'. Hard to see in the pictures, but I think I can see a slight discolouration where the wide square neck heel would have touched the body. If the original fingerboard, it might well be a flat, un-radiused board, which for some slide player might make it very attractive. |
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Post by snakehips on May 16, 2014 21:01:56 GMT
Hi there !
I kind of thought that was an unbelievably brilliant restoration job of a new neck, if it were true, including the yellowing of the pearloid headstock overlay.
I wondered if maybe the pearloid overlay had been removed from the original neck and veneered onto the reported new neck !
However, a square-to-round neck conversion seems a bit more likely. Shame the pictures are not good enough to show the neck join area better, to be more sure.
I did wonder if perhaps only the fretboard had been replaced. Unlike Colin, I thought the fretboard had a much more curved radius than I would be expecting from a vintage. National - BUT I've never seen a vintage Don in the flesh to know what radius the fretboard should normally be.
Looks qute curved to me at the end of the fretboard extension.
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Post by zak71 on May 16, 2014 21:52:23 GMT
Are you guys all looking at this on your phones or something? It is clearly radiused...looks like a modern fretboard with modern frets and a modern radius to me.   Compare it to the "other" Don...  |
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Post by snakehips on May 16, 2014 22:01:43 GMT
Yeah, that's the point I was making !
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Post by zak71 on May 16, 2014 22:07:32 GMT
Unless the Don had a drastically different fretboard radius than other mid-30s Nationals (I guess anything's possible...they did after all have a deeper body than the other metal bodied single-cones) that has to be new.
The fretboard binding and frets definitely look new.
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