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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jan 18, 2006 3:00:46 GMT
That one too was on ebay a while back & didn't sell. It had been listed as a style 1 and I told the owner that it was a 2.. So good luck to him this time!
Did anyone notice the style 1 square neck that came through ebay a year or so ago, where the owner had been in the merchant navy and the names and dates of all his ships had been engraved round the body? I don't know who bought it or where it is now, but it definitely had historic funk!
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jan 17, 2006 6:08:14 GMT
Hi Don,
Small world!
I saw Michael Dunn play last night in Squamish, he told me he had restored the guiitar for you and it sounded great.
I think I saw the pics when it cane through ebay a while back, I gather that we'll be meeting again on Jan 30th for another Movable Music School term in Vancouver so I look forwards to seeing and hearing the instrument!
If you can send us a few pictures we can place them here, and I can put them up on notecannons.com . As Michael says many Nationals were engraved with their owner's names, we have seen a dozen or more so can probably tell if it appears to be the origional engraving.
I'm heading down to California in Feb to see Don Young at National Resophonic too so can pick his brains about it, and if Brozman is in Santa Cruz I'll get his take on the subject too.
Aloha,
Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Dec 10, 2005 18:48:31 GMT
Hi John,
Thanks for the pictures, it makes it much easier for Michael and I to look it up and identify it.
Your amp is pictured in the August 1941 National Guitars sales brochure. It is the 'Concert' Model, Number 400.
It cost $100 and was available on it's own or as a packeage either with the model 70 Hawaiian guitar (New Yorker) or the model 440 Spanish guitar (Aristocrat).
If you read my 'email me please' thread on this forum you'll see that my ability to do things 'computer' is somewhat compromised, but a soon as I have a scanner up and running again I will scan the page(s) and post them here.
Aloha,
Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Dec 7, 2005 22:52:45 GMT
Hi folks, After a major computer upset here, which involved a problem that destroyed my main pc AND my backup portable, I have lost all my email addresses. (Also thousands of pics of nationals. ) I now have a new pc and am rebuilding my address book so if you have been in email contact with me before, please email me at my usual address and I can add you to my address book. If you can send a vCard I can automatically populate my address book with your snail mail address and phone nos too! To make you laugh (or cry) the story went like this.. My back up box only had a small HD so a month or so I coped all the backed up suff to my main pc and bought/fitted a new super big HD to the backup. The brand new drive was riddled with bad sectors,and while I was waiting for a new, new HD, my main box announced that windows had failed to start. I tried safe mode and rolling back to a month ago, but no joy. So it went in to the local repair shop where it was new last Easter. They tell me that the motherboard, memory and HD are all fried, probably by a power supply failure(!) and that left me with my portable with some email and a few odds and sods on it, On Friday night we had friends over with their kids, so we moved the coffee table by the sofa for the kids to play. Later that night after peace had returned and a 'certain' amount of red wine had been drunk I sat on the sofa, did my email, got up, tripped over the coffee table which wasn't in it's usual place and slung my portable onto the hardwood floor. Hardwood floor 1 Portable nill! So from having 3 machines 5 weeks ago I then had none! Obviously all the pics at notecannons.com are still there & I have grabbed them all, but I am having to hope that a data recovery company can mount the 'platters' from the dead HD into a new drive unit and so I can get all the other pics (Michael calls it my guitar porn) back. Aloha! Thanks, Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Nov 17, 2005 17:33:37 GMT
I'm in Canada and the clock shows my local time ok. So, I suspect that te server is running a small javascript to read the system clock from the computer of whoever is looking at the page in their browser.
So, if the clock on your screen is out, it probably means that you have Javascript turned off on your PC or that your system clock is actually not set to your right local time. Possibly your pc could also be set to the wrong time zone so if that is being read to compute the time you'd have another possible reson to be 'out'.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Sept 17, 2005 23:42:43 GMT
I'm researching the Stroviols instruments which many consider the forerunners of John Dopyera's resonators. I've put a starter page up at: www.notecannons.com/stroh.htmlSo please take a look, and, if anyone in Britain or elsewhere can help with information I would really like to hear from them! I've spent an afternoon on the web, and have drawn a blank on finding copies of the patents for example, but did just come upon the fascinating information in a thread on early electric amplification that George Beauchamp visited Britain in the 1910s or 20s to see the Strohviol factory and discuss sound amplification. That really 'knocked me back' since I've always held the belief that George took John's ideas when he patented the single cone, but if the Stroh conection is true then...
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Aug 28, 2005 2:32:04 GMT
How about sandblasting? Like the old Style 0's Etc..
Take digital pictures and go to a sign maker, he'll have a Roland or similar CAD driven sign cutter to cut thin platic sheet for vinyl, get the signatures cut into the vinyl and get someone (vintage car restoration business) to blast the sigs in.
The guys who restore vintage cars can use very fine sand blasting mediums as well as coarse, I know that when I lived in the UK my local restorer went as fine as powdered wallnut shells which they used to polish old, nickle car headlamps etc...
Complicated, but I suspect much, much cheaper than engraving. As Michael says, it is usual to polish and plate the body after engraving. The sand blasting would need no aftercare...
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Aug 26, 2005 22:33:19 GMT
I've been thinking about this one, I don't believe it will be possible to spray anything on the metal that will work, it will either desolve the ink, or fail to adhere, but had this thought. You can buy clear, self adhesive plastic material that is designed to be stuck on wood bodied accoustics to form a pickguard. If the signatures etc are on a flat part of the instrument, then a layer of this cut to a suitable shape might protect the signatures etc... Shouldn't dampen the body too much either, 99% of the tone and volume comes from the cone rattling/vibrating! You'll have to ask a luthier about availability, size, practicality of this but it just might work. Aloha
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Sept 1, 2005 14:59:38 GMT
At last a replacement for the pu's used on 50s and 60s National, Supro and Airline guitars. I haven't seen one yet, but if anyone needs one here's the link. www.myrareguitars.com/VVSCpickup.htmlNow all they need to do is to silk screen them so they look the same... If anyone tries a one please post here and let us know how they sound.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jul 1, 2005 19:50:08 GMT
Michael,
I like the artistic arrangement of the guitar, amp, and 'no parking' sign. ;D
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jul 1, 2005 5:59:32 GMT
Some years ago Lee Holiday told us of a National 12 string in really bad condition that had shown up on ebay USA. Michael ended up as the proud owner and we entrusted the restoration to Mike Lewis of Fine Resophonic in France. The restoration is now complete and I have posted a few pictures at: www.notecannons.com/12_string_restoration/We have never seen another 12 string National of this vintage, so it is really great to know that this 'one-off' is back in playing condition and ready to sing for another 65 years! Thanks Mike! ;D
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jun 8, 2005 21:39:49 GMT
markt,
Plan A:
Tell your Good Lady that you're seriously thinking of upgrading to a 'better' reso, which will cost several grand. But rather than deprive her of her annual holiday/ new curtains/whatever you're going to spend a few quid on a 'fix' for the old one.
Works every time!
With a visit to a good luthier, (such as Dave King in the UK, or indeed Pete Woodman) almost any Reso, new or old, can be transformed.
Plan B:
If you fancy a day out in the 'smoke', why don't you bring her and the guitar to London and while there drop in on the London Reso Center in Denmark Street, (Dave King now has a workshop there BTW).
Prime Ron in advance so when you sit in front of the wife trying all those new shiney resos, he can look at your's and say 'well, I recon for a couple of hundred quid we can give your's an overhaul that will make it play and sound just as good as that expensive one." She'll be so impressed at Ron's honesty and at the saving that you'll be in her good books for 'only' spending two hundred!
BTW There's a member of this forum who tells his wife every year that the latest reso to turn up in the house was a second hand bargain found by a mate of his... Aparently she is still falling for it!
Aloha!
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 31, 2005 22:32:50 GMT
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 30, 2005 19:04:13 GMT
Hey, Lee,
I have a National triplex chordchanger that needs some tuners. since it is a 50's Valco product it probably uses the same 3 a side Klusons as all the other Supro/Vaco/National units. Have you any sets taken off of off Lap streels?
BTW Thanks for the heads up on Greg's Delvechio on ebay. Coincidentally I visited the seller, Greg Miner in LA some years ago and actually knew the instrument, it is the perfect pair for my Delvechio uke, but it went for way more than I would have paid!
Aloha,
Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 29, 2005 20:50:22 GMT
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