I'm telling everybody..

[Leo_Gnardo]

and honestly are not the best playing guitars ever made.

OK for slide. Ya think?

[Reeltarded]

Both are very stiff for their setups. I have 9s on Scarface and they feel like 11s on other things. Duane's has 10s feels easy like 12s. Stiff.

[Phil_S]

Ever looked at a picture of Duane's hands? He had HUGE hands -- a guitar player's dream. Me, I've got size 7.5 so I really see this in spades. He probably could muster the leverage needed to make any guitar play. I also wonder, 40+ years later, if the guitar was once a great player that drifted beyond recognition. Time is not always kind to wood.

[Reeltarded]

See, Gibson took off on a tangent to restore it... it's refretted (had been before) and completely refinished. That wasn't contracted, they just took it upon themselves. There is a list of rockstars who didn't buy it because all the mojo got solved off by Tom Murphy.

It still is the guitar. It's not as glorious as it was when it was original, but still... it is what it is.

[Phil_S]

I see, in the hands of the wrong person...too bad. There are any number of guys out there who would have treated it with the respect it deserved. Hard to figure, huh?

[TUBEDUDE]

Not the best playing, but still sounding incredible, right? And if valued at $50K in '90, what now? Much more, or just a little? Nice grab at any rate, a happy birthday indeed! I've gotta talk to my fiancé about this. My birthday was on the 17th, and she got me a TENS unit.

[stelligan]

Fukkin' cool. Just fukkin' Cool..........

[Firestorm]

Cool, awesome, jealousy inspiring, etc. Slight derail: it reminds me of two D28s that wound up at Mandolin Brothers at the same time. Consecutive serial numbers. One was from the California coast, perfect moisture and temps all the time. The guy played it constantly. The other one was from Michigan. Hot, cold, hot, cold, dry, humid, dry, humid. And the owner pretty much never played it.

Conventional wisdom is that they should sound different by now, but they were acoustically identical. Sometimes consecutive numbers mean something. Sometimes not.

[Reeltarded]

Yes, if the materials are so similar and the same 6 guys made them in a batch they can be pretty same-same.

There was a lady on Antiques Roadshow who had a 31 Style 3.. I think tricone that she had bought at a yard sale or online just because she thought it was pretty. It was a great deal.. a couple months later she found another one just like it near her somewhere. She bought that one too and only after inspecting them discovered they were consecutive.

I have had identical Gibson serials on three guitars from different years at the same time, 67-74. I sold as a set. Impressed, impressed with MIUSA, and decaled 74. Silly!

[LeeMo]

Cool beans! Is this the one on the left?

[Firestorm]

Yes, if the materials are so similar and the same 6 guys made them in a batch they can be pretty same-same.

There was a lady on Antiques Roadshow who had a 31 Style 3.. I think tricone that she had bought at a yard sale or online just because she thought it was pretty. It was a great deal.. a couple months later she found another one just like it near her somewhere. She bought that one too and only after inspecting them discovered they were consecutive.

I have had identical Gibson serials on three guitars from different years at the same time, 67-74. I sold as a set. Impressed, impressed with MIUSA, and decaled 74. Silly!

Where ARE all those tricones (and other metal body resonators). Brozman says he can account for less than a third of manufacture, even allowing for export and accidental destruction. I gotta assume the "German Silver" bodies got so gnarly they got tossed or tucked away in attics with a "Nobody would ever want that." Treasure trove somewhere (provided they could cleaned up). Never had one; always wanted one.

[Reeltarded]

Cool beans! Is this the one on the left?

Yes. That's it. I have other secrets for later.

[Reeltarded]

Where ARE all those tricones (and other metal body resonators). Brozman says he can account for less than a third of manufacture, even allowing for export and accidental destruction. I gotta assume the "German Silver" bodies got so gnarly they got tossed or tucked away in attics with a "Nobody would ever want that." Treasure trove somewhere (provided they could cleaned up). Never had one; always wanted one.

Yeah, I have always been a big fan. I have a '32 roundneck 1, and a '32 prototype electric squareneck NOCONE 1. For the most part, if a neck got broken and wouldn't glue back together people threw guitars away..

A Style O is louder, but I love the sweet and trashy you get out of the small cones on the german silver body.