Audiovox steel

Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

The design lines are quite futuristic for an 80+ year old instrument. A very important guitar in the history of electric instruments.

http://www.retrofret.com/products.asp?ProductID=4743&CartID
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Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

This one is also for sale at Retrofret and shows some similar design themes ....
Epiphone Recording Syle D Model Arch Top Acoustic Guitar, c. 1930.

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Ted Duross · From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Apparently one of the designers of the Audiovox guitar, unbeknownst to his partner, sold the pickup's design to the Dobro company.

Art Stimpson designed the original pickup. I did a bit of a search to see if I could find an Art Stimpson patent for a pickup. I was looking to see if it was in any way similar to the Valco through string pickups we are familiar with.

According to OldFrets.com the pickup that Stimpson/Tutmarc sold to Dobro is patent 2,078,350. http://www.oldfrets.com/Valco/Catalogs/Patents/1934Pickup.pdf.

If I read it correctly it says that the patent has been assigned to Rodolph Dopyera.

It's a pretty strange looking pickup. But an interesting piece of history!

Tom Pettingill · From: California, USA (deceased)

I've always been fond the styling of the Audiovox steels, and definitely a cool piece of history. For some time now I've thought of building a steel in that style.

Here is an Audiovox thread from awhile back http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=2064544

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