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Topic: Identify this steel (updated w/ more pics). Wheeler/ZB? |
Pete McAvity
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St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2024 10:57 am |
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Heya, all. This guitar has come up locally & I think it’s a mishmash. Advertised as a Wheeler Pedall, no pics other than this. Discrepancies from any Wheeler Ped-All I’ve found online:
-Top side of changer different
-Pickup not single coil
-No “Ped-All” script at bridge end of fretboard (fretboard looks to be Wheeler)
-2 pedals, one lever = unlike any Wheeler I’ve found.
Guessing someone slapped a Wheeler fretboard on an old student something. Any ideas? I'm considering asking the seller if he'll have the dust layer carbon dated.
Thanks for playing,
-Pete
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Excel Superb D10, Kline U12, Sarno Black Box, Goodrich L120, Boss DD5, Baby Bloomer, 1965 Super Reverb chopped to a head, feeding a mystery PA cab w/ a K130.
They say "thats how it goes". I say "that ain't the way it stays!"
Last edited by Pete McAvity on 11 Jan 2024 5:46 am; edited 3 times in total |
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Pete McAvity
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St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Posted 10 Jan 2024 6:55 am
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Que?
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Excel Superb D10, Kline U12, Sarno Black Box, Goodrich L120, Boss DD5, Baby Bloomer, 1965 Super Reverb chopped to a head, feeding a mystery PA cab w/ a K130.
They say "thats how it goes". I say "that ain't the way it stays!" |
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K Maul
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Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
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Posted 10 Jan 2024 9:14 am
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Difficult to tell without more&better pictures.
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Kevin Maul: Airline, Beard, Clinesmith, Decophonic, Evans, Excel, Fender, Fluger, Gibson, Hilton, Ibanez, Justice, K+K, Live Strings, MOYO, National, Oahu, Peterson, Quilter, Rickenbacher, Sho~Bud, Supro, TC, Ultimate, VHT, Williams, X-otic, Yamaha, ZKing. |
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Bobby D. Jones
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 10 Jan 2024 9:38 am
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A picture of underneath and back of the changer would help.
From the way the changer comb is made and 5 counter sunk bolts holding it to body. And the way the tuner head is made. SWAG it is Uncle Joe's or Grandpa John's dream of a steel guitar, From around 1965-70 aera found in an attic. |
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Pete McAvity
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St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Posted 10 Jan 2024 10:12 am
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More pics received from the seller. Body, pickup & top of changer similar to a ZB student? Pedals are wrong, pickup not quite right. Unsure if this is a Frankenstein or a ZB student copy?
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Excel Superb D10, Kline U12, Sarno Black Box, Goodrich L120, Boss DD5, Baby Bloomer, 1965 Super Reverb chopped to a head, feeding a mystery PA cab w/ a K130.
They say "thats how it goes". I say "that ain't the way it stays!" |
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Bobby D. Jones
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 10 Jan 2024 9:58 pm
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| The more pictures, The more questions. |
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Pete McAvity
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St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2024 4:59 am
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| Bobby D. Jones wrote: |
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Damn straight, Bobby.
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Excel Superb D10, Kline U12, Sarno Black Box, Goodrich L120, Boss DD5, Baby Bloomer, 1965 Super Reverb chopped to a head, feeding a mystery PA cab w/ a K130.
They say "thats how it goes". I say "that ain't the way it stays!" |
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