Beautiful Mando... I'm an avid mandolin player and guitarist in a bluegrass band... Here is my list of vintage instruments... Gibson F2 Mandolin 1918?, 1974 Ibanez mandolin project, National O style resenator guitar from 1930s (need restoration), 1960s Yamaha guitar FG-??? first guitar... still sound great. Not vintage... but my gig mandolin is a Eastman 815 with a k&k pickup.

Here are a few link to albums with pictures... of instruments I own or have recently sold.

National Resonator Guitar
https://s969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t=DSC04833.jpg


Orpheum Tenor Banjo, Gibson 12 string, Gibson Heritage Guitar
https://s969.photobucket.com/albums/a...Tenor%20Banjo/

S.S. Stewart American Princess Open Back Banjo
https://s969.photobucket.com/albums/a...ewart%20Banjo/

I hunt instrument like I hunt bikes... cool vintage instruments are harder for me to find than c&v bikes

Cool stuff. Would we recognize your band's name?

There is som impressive traditional iron in this thread!

Auchen, do you play that lovely F4 much?

auchencrow... we've got the same taste... Mandolins and Resonator guitars....

I've sold off all my vintage banjos and some of the other guitars to pay for a restoration of a National O style from the 1930s...

Wish list... Gibson Mandola, new electric guitar... torn between Fender Telecaster or that thick gibson sound... I'll have one of each some day.

Only if your from Northern Colorado... Band is Blue Grama Bluegrass... blue grama is the state grass of colorado. We have a few track from our first record from about 3 years ago... www.myspace.com/bluegramabluegrass

Our lineup has changed and we're a lot better now... working on recording another album in June... we're a solid local to regional bluegrass band but I'm not quitting my day job... although I'm the only one in the band with a full time job.

Here's my '53 Guild archtop.
Everything's Original as far as I know... it needs the bindings re-done, they're a mess.

^ I want an archtop from that era. Love that sound.

Its fairly quiet compared to anything with a big circular sound hole, but the tone is wonderful

also dunno if you call it vibrato or tremelo, but that flying trapeze bridge is hinged and makes some cool sounds if you push on it a little


I'd really like a vintage Resonator...and a Dobro....and a Pedal Steel.

Go for a 30's Kalamazoo KG-31. They're Gibson made with out some of the nicer things in life like truss rods and the like. Their tone is awesome though, the deep V profile of the neck is one that people find strange at first but all fall in love with afterwards. Aside from that Gibson L-50's are nice guitars. They're carved and not pressed like the L-48. Otherwise, one can always spring for more expensive in the Gibson line up. The old Epiphone (pre-gibson) archtops are fantastic, but they're pricey.

I'll try to post a pic of my Kalamazoo tonight. It's been great other than I let it dry out in my first college apartment and ended up with a massive humidity crack. It's been repaired, but there's a loose brace from a previous owner's blunder that plagues the instrument. And by plagues I mean... Have you ever played guitar under a ceiling fan? That's what the loose brace sounds like. It's like a built in tremolo.

I long for pre-Gibson Epis, but you're right, they're pricey. One of these days I'm gonna get an Epi Electar Zephyr 8-string lap steel.

I've been warned by players way better than me about pedal steels, ZB. I've been convinced not to even attempt it. I ain't smart enough for that machine!

Septacycles – I have very broad tastes in fretted musical instruments ( I love them ALL!)


“…have one of each some day…” = best solution, but why stop at one?

There are to many really nice guitars in this thread. This one is a little bit embarrassing, but it qualifies I suppose.

My Teisco Del Ray, ET200 or "tulip" like most people call them:

Don't be embarassed she's a beauty, my only strat is a beat up pos Squier and I wouldn't trade her for anything...

Hey mkeller234 ! It's neat to see one of those in the flesh! - ( There seemed to be one in in every garage band - We used to walk around to check out the other bands making noisey in Joisey on Saturday afternoons.... Some were pretty good and some stunk on ice, but it was always fun! )

I've got no doubt you're right about that...They certainly look pretty damned complicated to play....I can't even play a B-bender properly let alone all those crazy bars and pedals on a proper Pedal Steel.

I just wanna try a simple cheapo model because I'm not the worst slide player in the world when I use a metal bar like they do for Pedal Steel. Give me a Corcidin bottle though and I'm totally useless.I've seen em on sale in Musicians Fiend for under 300 in the past.


In Highschool and College I was caretaker for a lady friend's Father's '70 Les Paul. It had that sweet Gold-Top metallic lookin finish...*****in guitar. Had to give it back about 5 years ago and I've only got a few pics of it....If I can dig em up I'd love to show it off. I freakin loved that axe.

Made these in the early 1980s. Still have them.
See more at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/36693223@N03/

Here's a couple:

Mid-60's Epiphone 12-sting Texan
Old Harmony? archtop (my mom bought it at a garage sale for $2 when I was a kid - it plays great!)
1991 Gibson SG special (not really vintage)
Mid-60's Hagstrom II
84 Fender Precision (made in Japan)



And how about some amps?

1966 Fender Showman
1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb

Here are mine & my wife's:

1972 Fender Jazz Bass (Mine)
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2002 Gibson Les Paul Standard (wife's; gift from me)
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1989 Gibson SG Custom (wife's; gift from me)
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This SG is an odd duck. It is painted a Fender color, Burgundy Mist and the head stock is stamped SEC (which I think means factory second)

1951 D-28. Pardon my lame photography chops.


With an instrument like this, it's a shame I'm not a better guitar player (more of a mandolin player).

tcpasley

Reduce, Reuse, Rebicycle

Thank you. It used to be my "work" guitar. Now I can't risk letting it out of the house.

That's some pretty fancy work there, VonCarlos. Very nice.

I played in a band with a guitar player that played a REAL '58 Les Paul. He wouldn't play it in bars , but took it to festivals and such. Guys all the time coming up to him and telling him what a sweet '58 replica he had! He'd just grin and thank them. Remember, they are made to be played!

1957 vintage Karl with 1956 vintage Kay C-1. Yes, it's plywood(but it's MY plywood!), but that's a Brazilian Rosewood fretboard with matching tailpiece.

That's a nice bass! If you have any doubt about it, I'll show you mine, both the one I bought new in 1984 and the one I took out of a dumpster a few years ago.

Nothing wrong at all with a Kay. I've been hunting for one recently.