Zum Hybrid?

Randy Gilliam · Post by **Randy Gilliam** » 14 Jun 2013 1:49 pm

Never Hear about them. Do the owners like them? How many Hybrids were built? Do they still make them? Thanks Randy G.

Bill Lowe · Post by **Bill Lowe** » 14 Jun 2013 1:58 pm

Randy Gilliam · Post by **Randy Gilliam** » 14 Jun 2013 2:00 pm

But do you like the sound? What Pick ups? Thanks Bill, You are Very Lucky to have 2.

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 14 Jun 2013 2:00 pm

I have an SD-10 that I bought from a friend in as-new condition. I have nothing but good things to say about it. Reasonably light, looks great, sounds great and feels great.

Randy Gilliam · Post by **Randy Gilliam** » 14 Jun 2013 2:09 pm

Thanks Bob.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 14 Jun 2013 2:40 pm

I played a friends Zum when I was in Kansas City, Mo at their Heartland Steel Guitar Club Jam in May. It had the drop compensator on the E9th neck like the Emmons Legrande III and the changer fingers looked like there was an extra piece on them - I didn't ask but could have been the Hybrid??? We have a couple of Zum's in our Florida SG Club and I don't recall the extra pieces on their changer fingers.

The friend got it from an estate sale from the wife of a Steeler (in Topeka Ks) that had passed away. He said the Zum was the top of the line model.

The guitar had a very good sound and a typical Zum sound. I couldn't really compare it to another Zum - the guy's that have Zum's in our Florida club use different amps and they will sound different.

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 14 Jun 2013 3:17 pm

I like mine a bunch ! I have single coil Emmons pickups, sounds great !!

Bill Lowe · Post by **Bill Lowe** » 14 Jun 2013 3:30 pm

what Hook said

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 14 Jun 2013 4:37 pm

If the changer had the drop compensators, it wasn't a hybrid. You can get either/or, but not both. I think they are standard on the newer guitars.

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 14 Jun 2013 5:03 pm

I love my Fessenden D-10's also, and have no intention of letting them go. But since I got it last fall the Zum has seen a lot of use. Very fast to set up, and as I said it is not unreasonably heavy. Nice for the downtown/inner city kinds of gigs I do where load in is a challenge.

john widgren · Post by **john widgren** » 14 Jun 2013 5:24 pm

I'm with Hook...Hybrid with Emmons P/U on E9...It's a monster guitar in Zebrawood mica! I love it.

Robert Parent · Post by **Robert Parent** » 15 Jun 2013 4:05 am

The Zum Hybrid is the best guitar I have ever owned (there have been many others!).

Robert

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 15 Jun 2013 7:25 am

My D-10 Hybrid has TruTone pickups on it and it sounds great to me. I can hear the Emmons p/p growl.

Mark Dunn · Post by **Mark Dunn** » 16 Jun 2013 7:38 am

The Zum D10 Hybrid works for me... Great guitars - Used one for several years and never had any significant mechanically issues, a really smooth mechanism, parts available and easy to fit if you want to change the copedant and most importantly the tone is consistently superb.

Mark

Tommy Auldridge · Post by **Tommy Auldridge** » 16 Jun 2013 10:37 am

I recently inherited a Zum Hybrid from my brother Mike when he passed away in December 2012... I'd like to play it, but I would have to switch everything over to the Day setup. I've done that probably 8 or 10 times on my own Emmons push pull guitars. I generally take alot of time doing it, but I've done it so many times, it's not so difficult anymore. On the other hand, the Zum Hybrid looks very different and complicated. I guess eventually I'll find the time to take on the challenge, and get it done so I can play it out once in a while. Tommy.....

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 16 Jun 2013 4:50 pm

Its really no more complicated than your all pull guitars Tommy. Dive in buddy

Tommy Auldridge · Post by **Tommy Auldridge** » 16 Jun 2013 5:47 pm

I don't really have any all pull steel guitars, other than one 1968 Sho-Bud finger tip, and that was already the Day setup when I bought it. Until recently, all my steel guitars are P/P Emmons. And I changed each of those over to the Day setup. The Hybrid looks quite different. I've decided to let Lynn Stafford work it over for me, some day soon.
Tommy.....

Eric Philippsen · Post by **Eric Philippsen** » 17 Jun 2013 7:05 am

I have a D10 Hybrid. It really is something else. It's the one I keep set up at home. Pretty much takes my breath away every time i sit down to practice.

My gigging workhorse is D10 p/p simply because it, too, sounds great and I don't have to worry about adding another ding or nick to it.

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 17 Jun 2013 3:38 pm

I have a Zum Hybrid and a standard Zum D10 and I can tell you the Hybrid is a very special guitar ... I use mine for most of my show work and all my sessions because it has something a little different from the standard Zum (which is itself an outstanding guitar) ... it is a very subtle difference in tone but it is incredible IMO ..I guess you need to play one for a while and then you will see

... no chance I will ever sell the Hybrid, and in fact there's a fair chance I will get another one.
Tommy you should probably get Bruce to change it around for you ... Mike's guitar is the next sequential serial number to mine, and Dag Wolf's - we picked them up at the Dallas show in 2008.

For the uninitiated - here's a pic of the changer end - notice the row of hex screws above the nylon tuners. (Hybrid both necks)

Randy Gilliam · Post by **Randy Gilliam** » 17 Jun 2013 3:47 pm

Got a 2006 D-10 Zum Hybrid On Both Necks Black. Bruce Z. is gonna Change it over for me! Sounds and Plays Like a Dream, Randy G.

Randy G.

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 18 Jun 2013 1:34 pm

Randy thats a pretty hazy pic of your Zum mate

Ned McIntosh · Post by **Ned McIntosh** » 18 Jun 2013 2:19 pm

Gotta agree with Paddy, there's a real thick sea-fog obscuring the pic of Randy's hybrid!

Duane Brown · Post by **Duane Brown** » 18 Jun 2013 10:50 pm

I had been out of touch for years so when I went to Scotty's convention in 2007 Zum Hybrids were new to me. Buddy, John Hughey, Randy Beavers and Larry Sasser were all playing them and I could immediately hear the difference. Bruce was not taking orders due to his backlog,so I bought a great sounding '92 Zum on the forum and I was happy with it. In 2009 Bruce finally built my hybrid (both necks) and with truetone single coils it's the best sounding guitar I have ever owned, bar none. I still love my '68 Emmons but it's retired and the Hybrid does 99% of my work with the all pull Zum picking up the rest.

Bruce Zumsteg is one of the most knowledgable men I've ever known and his expertise was invaluable in guiding me into the right choices of new changes,etc.

Randy Gilliam · Post by **Randy Gilliam** » 19 Jun 2013 6:52 pm

How many Hybrids Were Built? Apparently Not Enough, I Got 3 Buyers For mine If I Decide to Sell it! Bruce Z , Build Some More!

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 19 Jun 2013 9:56 pm

...well, I've been offered $1500 more than what I paid for mine brand new... Not selling!

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