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Post by DonKel on Dec 28, 2005 19:12:26 GMT
Michael:
I am searching for information on a National player from the late 20's by the name of "Tommy Weber". He had a custom Type 1 squareneck Tricone made for him in 1928 with his name engraved in block letters on the front. I have been searching but have yet to find any trail on the web that would provide me with information on him or his career.
DonKel
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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 28, 2005 22:18:59 GMT
Hi DonKel,
I don't recall Tommy Weber's name. Do you have the guitar?
It was pretty fashionable back then to have your name, or something, engraved on a National Tricone guitar.
Some of our forum members and guests are pretty good at searching for this kind of stuff, so any info or photos would be very useful.
I look forward to hearing from you hopefully with some more information about TW.
Shine On,
Michael.
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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 Alan on Jan 17, 2006 23:14:16 GMT
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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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