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Topic: MSA Camino anybody? |
Bob Poole
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Myrtle Beach SC, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2014 8:50 pm |
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| Anyone have any info or pics on a 70s MSA model,I think it was called the Camino & had a wrist lever.i sorta remember seeing one in a music store sometime around the mid 70s. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 6 Aug 2014 9:08 pm
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Camino was the name they gave to the SD guitars. I doubt that wrist levers were standard.
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John Alexander
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Posted 6 Aug 2014 11:09 pm
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 3:43 am
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Wow, 12 strings, 5 pedals, 8 knees, and one wrist! What happens when you use all of them at once! 
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Henry Matthews
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Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 5:55 am
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| Scott Duckworth wrote: |
| Wow, 12 strings, 5 pedals, 8 knees, and one wrist! What happens when you use all of them at once! |
It collapses and folds in on it's self.
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Henry Matthews
D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 10:29 am
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This must have been an early experiment with a wrist lever. The wrist lever in this guitar is in the wrong place. It need to be under or behind the changer, as close to the edge of the guitar as possible. Otherwise it interferes with both the right hand, and with the bar when playing up the neck.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 10:35 am
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| Scott Duckworth wrote: |
| Wow, 12 strings, 5 pedals, 8 knees, and one wrist! What happens when you use all of them at once! |
Your jeans split in the crotch, and your legs break at the knee. 
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Henry Matthews
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Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 11:54 am
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Mike, I've never seen or played a guitar with a wrist lever but looks to me like it would be in the correct place for ease of use.
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Henry Matthews
D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 3:49 pm
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I kind of like the idea of a wrist lever, as long as it doesn't affect my picking hand. Mike says it doesn't, and I have no reason to doubt him.
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Bob Poole
From:
Myrtle Beach SC, USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 4:49 pm MSA Camino
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Thanks folks...i appreciate the info & the pic.doggone,I wanted that guitar so badly back then.
still do.... |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 7 Aug 2014 5:11 pm
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| I kind of like the idea of a wrist lever, as long as it doesn't affect my picking hand. Mike says it doesn't, and I have no reason to doubt him. |
Actually Richard, sometimes it does. For for one thing, you can't chime while using it. And if you're playing way up in Hughey-land, it gets in the way. I fold it down sometimes when I'm not using it.
I play one tune where I use it, then fold it down so I can slide up to the 25th fret, (always a very risky and scary move,) than bring it back up for a later passage down the neck.
You have the same invitation as Henry. If you ever find yourself in L.A, you're welcome to come over to my place and try it out.
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Chris Johnson
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USA
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bob drawbaugh
From:
scottsboro, al. usa
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Posted 9 Aug 2014 11:58 am
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| Mike if you look at the wrist lever on the camino it looks as if it would have to move to te left. Because it folds down to the right. That seems to me it would be hard to play that way. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 9 Aug 2014 12:34 pm
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You are correct Bob. I never noticed that. Mine moves to the right.
I wonder if the lever in the picture would be harder to work than mine. I'm sure it would get in the way when the guitar was played up the neck on the uppermost frets.
Zane King has a guitar with a wrist lever. (He calls it an arm lever.) Zane, of you're reading this, would you care to comment?
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 13 Aug 2014 4:20 pm
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| i think you're both wrong. i bet you would find it move to the right. |
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