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Post by vent on Mar 23, 2013 19:05:58 GMT
Alas, the people who ran What's Cookin' at the Birbeck Tavern have ridden into the sunset. It's still a pub but they may no longer have live music. Shame
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Post by vent on Mar 22, 2013 7:55:49 GMT
Apols, a bit Anglocentric - the UK.
Cheers
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Post by vent on Mar 22, 2013 0:14:29 GMT
Does anyone know if VAT or import tax has to be paid on an old instrument purchased and imported from an EU country, either freighted or collected and brought back through customs?
Cheers
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Post by vent on Feb 28, 2013 22:37:10 GMT
I've got an old '30s wooden bodied Dobro (not entirely original) that needs resetting-up.
Action needs raising slightly. Can anyone recommend someone that they've used.
Cheers
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Post by vent on Dec 1, 2012 22:14:23 GMT
I have a Regal 14 fret model from the early '90s. I bought a Quarterman cone and pick-up from Stewart Mac Donald and had a local dobro expert do the installing. His name's Cedric Thorose and he completely re-set up the guitar as the tailpiece, bridge & neck weren't properly aligned. Beautiful job and it's a fine sounding beast but I managed to find a National Jazz Blues in a shop who had it at a price far less than it should have been so I don't play the Regal much anymore.
I'd be willing to sell, it's in really good nick. I live in London.
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Post by vent on Nov 24, 2012 17:39:00 GMT
I'd agree with that. I was after an electric National resonator and was recommended by people on this site to look at Sollophonic. Ended up getting one and am really pleased with it.
You can pretty much choose colour, coverplate, pick-up and action and get it sent to your door for around £400. Has great tone and not bad volume unplugged. Plugged in it'll shift pigeons and moss from your roof tiles.
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Post by vent on Oct 10, 2012 19:49:27 GMT
A big thank you to people who provided info/opinion regarding an NRP Resolectric, and also a bigger thank you to those who pointed me in the Sollophonic direction.
In the end I got a Sollophonic made, based loosely on Wilko Johnson’s black Tele with red pickguard (Wilkophonic?) for a few pints less than £400 to the door (still in tune!).
The strings/action recommended are great as I'm still able to use my heavy brass slide. Great tone and surprisingly loud when acoustic, great through a 15W practice amp and have yet to send it through 30W Watkins amp (it’s unlikely to disappoint).
If I'd gone the NRP Resolectric route I'm not sure I'd have been as impressed, given the vastly different costs and the fact that the mood on the forum was the Sollophonic take on amplifying a cone was one way to go.
Cheers
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Post by vent on Sept 1, 2012 19:31:49 GMT
I’m after a second hand National Resophonic electric and posted a thread on Tin Can Alley. I probably need a little more info so am asking on this forum as I’m after advice.
I don’t play electric much but dabble occasionally as I have an old Watkins combo that needs ‘exercise’ every now and then. I have an old National Jazz Blues and play open tuning slide/fingerpicking and that’s the way I fancy going with an electric.
Can anyone enlighten me on National Resophonic’s various electrics. Are the new Resoelectrics better than the ones that came out in the 90’s – would I really notice, given what I want from it? What about the Resotones or the Junior 2’s?
I don’t play live and just fancy a guitar that sounds as much like acoustic resophonic as possible but with option of mixing pick ups, tone/volume and adding reverb/echo etc?
Any info gladly received.
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