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Jim Rossen
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Iowa, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2019 9:41 am |
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How is this instrument as a player?
Any problem with replacing the nut for wider string spacing? Nut would be a bit wider than the neck
How well does the PU work?
Why the atypical fret marker positions?
Can the tuners be flipped to point up?
Market value (has light wear)?
Thanks
Jim
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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Howard Parker
From:
Maryland
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Posted 9 Jun 2019 10:37 am
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How is this instrument as a player? - Depends on how well it's set up
Any problem with replacing the nut for wider string
spacing? - Nope , It's a common "upgrade". The wider nut is available from Resophonic Outfitters
How well does the PU work? - Who knows? I doubt it was a factory install. The Fishman "Nashville" pu won't work on an 8.
Why the atypical fret marker positions? ??
Can the tuners be flipped to point up? I believe so if you swap the high & low sides
Market value (has light wear)? hmmm..Certainly south of $1K. Small market and The Goldtone PBS8 is a fine guitar for not a lot of do-re-me
Hope this helps
h
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Ed Pettersen
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2019 11:37 am
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Gold Tone PBS-8 seconded. I love mine and the factory pickup (for an extra charge) is terrific IMO. Great axe for not a lot of cash.
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Robert Murphy
From:
West Virginia
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Posted 10 Jun 2019 8:09 am
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| Atypical fret markers are covering screws. I have two resophonic guitars. One Dobro 6 and one McKenna eight. Both set up at Beard Guitars. Best possible tone from each. |
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2019 10:23 am
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| Ed Pettersen wrote: |
| Gold Tone PBS-8 seconded. I love mine and the factory pickup (for an extra charge) is terrific IMO. Great axe for not a lot of cash. |
Factory pickup on a GT PBS8? Tell me more!
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Howard Parker
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Maryland
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Posted 11 Jun 2019 11:32 am
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Assuming either the original Fishman "Do-Nut" or the clip on mic.
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Ed Pettersen
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2019 1:12 pm
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| Stephen Cowell wrote: |
| Ed Pettersen wrote: |
| Gold Tone PBS-8 seconded. I love mine and the factory pickup (for an extra charge) is terrific IMO. Great axe for not a lot of cash. |
Factory pickup on a GT PBS8? Tell me more! |
They offer a pickup for the PBS-8. It's on their site as an option. It works great. It's supposedly a Gold Tone/Fishman collab so I don't know why Fishman doesn't offer it. I was skeptical but it works great. Covers all 8 strings perfectly. I don't hear any issues.
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2019 7:49 am
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| Howard Parker wrote: |
Assuming either the original Fishman "Do-Nut" or the clip on mic.
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Ok... still no JD for the masses!
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Howard Parker
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Maryland
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Posted 13 Jun 2019 8:39 am
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Ok... still no JD for the masses! |
Alas..
2 prototypes are out there, cobbled together with 2 pickups. The costs and labor involved were deemed "horrific".
The only reso pickups I see on the Goldtone site are the 2 older style Fishmans. Everyone is aware of them by now.
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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Jack Aldrich
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2019 4:02 pm
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I've had my Dobro 8 string since fall of 1977. I have enjoyed playing it a lot over the years. I got it from the Dopyera's. I was looking for a 7 string, like the Sho-bro from Shot Jackson. For a while I kept it in G6 (Em) with nothing on the bottom. In 1978 I ran into Don Helms at the NAMM show, and he showed me his 8 string tunings *A & E7). I compromised and put it into a D9 tuning which I used for many years. After starting non-pedal steel in the early 90's I moved it into a standard C6 tuning, and there it sits. Dave Krause, a luthier here in Seattle built me a Koa with spruce top 8 (and a 6, btw which I keep in Dobro G) which has much better depth of tone (And looks Hawaiian) which I use most of the time. I pulled out the Dobro for a jam session last week. It still plays really nice, but it is pretty trebley. When I asked Rudy why Dobros were mad of plywood, he told me it didn't matter, because all of the sound came from the resonator, to which I say HAH!
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