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Topic: Help identify mystery student lap steel set |
Mark Nason
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Maine, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2024 10:04 am |
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A friend came across this matching lap steel/amp set. The amp has vibrato and the lap steel has a nice set of chrome legs. Neither has any outwardly brand markings.
Anyone seen a set like this? I'm assuming it's an import set during the lap steel craze but I've never seen a steel that looks exactly like this (clearly a copy of a Fender but an enclosed tuner section).
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2024 2:43 pm
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Doesn't really look Japanese. European? Perhaps Australian?
With that headstock setup, looks to be a real bugger to string up.
Cool set, nonetheless. |
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Allen Kaatz
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2024 2:48 pm
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| I have no idea what it is but I love the amp - does the person want to sell it? |
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Mark Nason
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2024 1:03 pm
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| Allen Kaatz wrote: |
| I have no idea what it is but I love the amp - does the person want to sell it? |
Eventually, yes. For now I'm just in detective mode.
| Jack Hanson wrote: |
Doesn't really look Japanese. European? Perhaps Australian?
With that headstock setup, looks to be a real bugger to string up.
Cool set, nonetheless. |
Yeah it's odd. Standard, 3-on-a-side tuner mount with the string/tuner post hole covered with a metal ferrule. |
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Allen Kaatz
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Washington, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2024 1:45 pm
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| What kind of tubes does the amp take and what brand of speaker? The speaker would give clues as to where it might be from. The two little colored inputs are interesting, I have never have seen that on the front of an amp. |
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Mark Nason
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2024 2:25 pm
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| Allen Kaatz wrote: |
| What kind of tubes does the amp take and what brand of speaker? The speaker would give clues as to where it might be from. The two little colored inputs are interesting, I have never have seen that on the front of an amp. |
It's a nondescript made in Japan speaker. Tubes are a Tungsol 5881, a Sylvania 12AX7, and at least 2 others I can't recall without checking it out later. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 26 Jan 2024 1:29 pm Student Set
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It MAY be a Canadian made "Mason" brand set. The case and amp covering looks like "Mason" but the few I've seen are styled more like Gibsons, especially the Ultratone and variants. And I have no literature or info on the Mason brand.
MLA
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 26 Jan 2024 1:59 pm
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| Allen Kaatz wrote: |
| The two little colored inputs are interesting, I have never seen that on the front of an amp. |
I wonder if there was some sort of foot switch, for the "VIBRATO" effect.
~Lee |
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Mark Nason
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2024 3:37 pm
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| Lee Baucum wrote: |
| Allen Kaatz wrote: |
| The two little colored inputs are interesting, I have never seen that on the front of an amp. |
I wonder if there was some sort of foot switch, for the "VIBRATO" effect.
~Lee |
There is. It's an odd plastic footswitch that might not be original. |
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