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Post by snakehips on May 13, 2019 11:22:32 GMT
Hi again !
That movie still definitely seems to show a much deeper guitar body, and binding on the headstock, with a black face and pearl large shield ???
Oh, and in no pictures, have they put the tuners on the wrong way round, with the tuner buttons facing upwards, like the fashion seems to be these days !
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Post by snakehips on May 13, 2019 8:43:11 GMT
PS. Am I imagining it, OR does Sol's Tricone body look deeper than standard ??? Quite a bit engraving on the side too.
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Post by snakehips on May 12, 2019 18:58:00 GMT
Hi Graeme !
You playing is great ! The guitar sounds ace too !! If I wasn’t already swamped with Nationals, I’d be sorely tempted.
Might consider putting on or two up for sale myslf, but have never managed to decide which one(s) I could bare to part with ! Probably a tricone or two (NRP/Beltona/ or even the 1931 roundneck Style 1).
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Post by snakehips on May 10, 2019 22:51:18 GMT
Hi there !
I have a Hipshot Trilogy that I never used as I never got around to installing it on anything. PM me if interested.
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Post by snakehips on May 1, 2019 11:38:37 GMT
Hi there !
Thanks for the information and pictures there.
I didn't know that NRP's Hot-Rod cones were not as tall as vintage National's cones.
I actually thought NRP's earlier NON-hot-rod cones were too tall, and that they then made their Hot-Rod cones to the correct height. So, I'm still learning stuff here !
I've always fancied a fiddle-edge guitar except don't like the Dobro spider cone sound. Might be able to consider these more now.
Do ALL the fiddle-edge Dobros have the double wells ?? (for 9.5" & 10.5" cones)
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Post by snakehips on Apr 24, 2019 20:46:31 GMT
Hi there ! What sort of pickup do you have ? You say it’s passive - but is it a magnetic pickup, or a piezo/bug type pickup ? What sort of sound are you after ? (Electric or acoustic resonator ?) Unless you are after a much more electric guitar sound, I would suggest NOT using your electric-guitar amp. Surely there will be a PA system at the gig ??? Plug your guitar, via your preamp, into a channel of the PA system. I’d expect you will need to turn down the treble a fair bit, unless your pickup is magnetic. I highly recommend the Acoustic Preamp DI box by Orchid Electronics. You don’t need batteries as it gets powered by Phantom Power from the XLR input of the PA system. Plus, it has a very handy Mute switch, for during changing instruments etc. I use mine with Highlander pickups in my Nationals, instead of using Highlander’s own internal preamp and external battery box. See the link below : orchid-electronics.co.uk/acoustic.htm
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Post by snakehips on Apr 24, 2019 5:15:21 GMT
Hi here !
Woo, hoo ! I wasn’t expecting a passing reference to me there !
I was away in York, for a long weekend at Easter, so wouldn’t have been in when you passed. You are welcome to pop in and say hello sometime. Make it lunchtime though ! (Unless you have problems with your teeth, then 9am - 5.30pm is good for me, but phone first !)
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Post by snakehips on Apr 15, 2019 16:54:45 GMT
Hi again !
Cool, if yours are still functioning well, but in EVERY guitar I have seen them on, the tuner worms slip on the gears, and everything just seems far too loose. I have a 1932 brass Style N that had the single peak engraved tuners - and the treble side had already been replaced - with the more "basic" non-engraved rectangular plate tuners - and those have lasted up better than the bass side originals !
I know of another 1932, Style N, very close in serial number to mine, that probably had the same single-peak engraved plate tuners - but this guitar has had the tuners removed - and it's been in a cupboard for 40yrs without strings on it ! That says a lot about those tuners, in my mind !
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Post by snakehips on Apr 15, 2019 12:48:16 GMT
Hi again !
Still can't open that thing !
Which picture does your guitar tuners look the most like ? (One or two peaks, between the ears ??)
The double peak engraved tuner plates are the high quality tuners, mostly used on high-end Nationals, like Tricone. The single peak tuner engraved plates are not that great, IMHO, and tend to feature on Duolians, Triolians, Style N's etc, from say 1932 to perhaps 1934. In fact, I find these single-peak "engraved" plate tuners to be of lower quality than the more common non-engraved plates that National used for Duolians, Trojans etc. from about 1934 onwards The only tuner plates I have found don't last up well are these circa 1932-34 "engraved" single peak tuners, and the tuners used on the very last few years of the original National brand (1937-41, or so). (perhaps Mark Makin can chime in at this point to correct anything needing correcting !).
Perhaps time for an article/discussion on the various tuners National used over the years ?? (for another thread, obviously !)
Sorry for hijacking the thread BUT if YOUR guitar's tuners are what looks like the only set of tuners that were ever on your guitar AND it has the single peak engraved tuner plates, I'd make a proposal that your guitar was only ever completely built and sold, in 1932 or later. Probably a body and maybe the neck and maybe both put together in the late 1920's, BUT not been painted and had tuners put on it, until it was actually sold.
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Post by snakehips on Apr 15, 2019 12:35:07 GMT
Hi there !
Nope, the B-series duco finish was a short batch of Triolians with a different colour Duco crystalline lacquer, with an opaque base layer, instead of the usual translucent base layer (or something like that). I think it made the crystalline patterns more obvious, but the overall brown colour is not to everyone's taste.
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Post by snakehips on Apr 14, 2019 23:29:10 GMT
Hi again ! Do the tuners on your guitar look like they have one, or two points/peaks, between the Mickey-Mouse ears, like these two pictures : Attachments:
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Post by snakehips on Apr 14, 2019 23:26:43 GMT
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Post by snakehips on Apr 14, 2019 23:11:51 GMT
Hi niaro,
I can’t open these files, on my ipad, at least.
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Post by snakehips on Apr 13, 2019 21:32:38 GMT
Hi there ! What tuners does the guitar have Can you post a photo, showing the tuner plates ? Engraved plates ? If so, do they have a single or double point, in between the Mickey-Mouse ear ends of the plates ?
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Post by snakehips on Apr 8, 2019 7:08:53 GMT
Hi there!
I’d have reservations using that massive rectangular SKB case. While it offers bags of space in the neck half for cables etc, there appears to be very little between the treble & bass sides of the widest parts of the lower bout, for protection of the guitar
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