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Topic: Factory built steels,how many? |
bob drawbaugh
From:
scottsboro, al. usa
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Posted 18 Jul 2001 1:43 pm |
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Bobbe, you are right this is a great fourm. Just because some steel guitar shops pay business taxes and pay for a business phone does not make them a factory. It makes them a business.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a factory as a building or group of buildings were goods are manufactured. By that defination every stee guitar builder has a factory.
Are children considered goods. If so I have a child factory. Ya buddy.
The teacher is in.
MSA U12 twice. |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Jul 2001 1:48 pm
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I love it Bob! Good answer!
Bobbe |
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 18 Jul 2001 2:45 pm
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FWIW, there are many advantages, tax wise, in running a business/factory out of your home. A possible disadvantage to a non-factory establishment (in your home deal) is the absence of that big desk where one's arm can quickly clear the desktop for a little afternoon break. Doing that at work (at the factory) can only make you liable for a future harassment suit and higher workers comp fees especially when the victim falls of the desk and breaks a finger nail! 
Gary Lee |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Jul 2001 7:18 pm
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Gary Gimbel,This is funny!And your correct.I really must agree.
Bobbe |
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 19 Jul 2001 2:39 am
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Its Gimble, not Gimbel! Big difference you know!
I forgive you this time. |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 20 Jul 2001 10:05 am
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Good lord , and you told me that on the phone too! Sorry.
Bhuobi Cemhour |
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Bhuobi Cemhour
From:
St. Rose, Sonoma
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Posted 20 Jul 2001 3:09 pm
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| Watch it, Bobbe! |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Jul 2001 7:57 pm
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Huh? OK, I will,
Six Real factorys, total. Count em' |
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Andy Alford
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 4:43 am
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| How many workers are building the guitars in the factories?Are they really small operations? |
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Don Walters
From:
Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 6:57 am
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| I don't know why some people are getting their bowels in an uproar |
Considering the age of a lot of the people on here, that may not be such a bad thing. |
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 7:28 am
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Aren't we just discussing semantics here?
I don't see the point, whether or not a pedal steel is made in a "factory" or someone's backyard garage/outbuildings or
in their basement.
Maybe the point is, 'how soon can the instrument be completed and delivered'?
As long as the quality and craftsmanship, playability etc. is there [and Lord knows it is], then that's all I really care about.
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Gere Mullican
From:
LaVergne, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 7:29 am
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| Hi folks. I am new here and this is my first reply. I was just wondering if anyone kows if the Marlen is going to be continued since we lost Leonard. That's what I played until somebody ripped it off. Thanks |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 9:32 am
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Well...here I go again. I'm going to skip Webster's first definition under the word "factory", 'cause it has more to do with a structure or building than anything else.
HOWEVER, the second entry under "factory" is very enlightening, even to an old bookworm/geezer like me! It says...
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| ...any place producing a uniform product, without concern for individuality... |
Sooooo...we can say (or rather I can say) that if you make a "standard model" steel...or anything else, buddy, you got a factory! Now if everyone you build is different, and if everyone you build is customized, and you never build one without an "order", unless it's for yourself...then I guess it's safe to say you don't have a "factory".
Guess what, I just solved the dilemma we were having!
Thusly, I can say with some confidence that 99.99% of all steels that have ever been built (or will be built) were built in a "factory"!
I'm glad I could help!  |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 9:37 am
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And you guys do realize this thread is from last year, do you not?
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Lee, from South Texas |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 3:18 pm
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| Yeah...I had to think about my last response before I gave it! |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 4:22 pm
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If I had posted this topic and asked the same question, there may have been three or four responses. Bobbie posts it, there have been 95 responses. Being famous with notibility says it all. I'm just a nobody  Joe |
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Kenny Foy
From:
Lynnville, KY, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 4:54 pm
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| So Boobe, Out of curosity how many Guitars do these factories build in a year.Approximately, and if anyone has at least a good guess or know factually it would be you that would know. Now you got me to thinkin about numbers. |
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Wayne Cox
From:
Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Sep 2002 6:20 pm
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Bobbe, are you on steroids?
 W.C. |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2002 6:00 pm
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Joe M. , the reason I get 95 responses and you would get 4 is because I know a lot more about the subject than you do. Right? What do I do for a career? What do you do for a career?
I don't think being famous has anything to do with it. I'm not sure I'm famous anyway.I met a guy two years ago from Pago Pago that wasn't sure if he knew me or not. (his wife did though!) How famous do YOU think I am?
I don't think I'm very famous. Maybe I am in Panama. I did a show there once in 1948 with my uncle Doug in the high school. We twerld ropes (larietts) , he played steel guitar with the Fox Hunters and did comedy. I just did the "Cowboy stuff". I lost in a tractor driving contest in Panama once also. I was only 6 years old,
(this response was all in fun Joe, don't get your Panama ire up) |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2002 6:04 pm
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By the way Jhoe merighlougha, "Bobbe" isn't that hard to spell. Just leave out one letter, the "i".
(I don't really care how you spell it Joe,just spell it as often as you can!)
Your buddy :
Bhoube |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 30 Sep 2002 6:41 pm
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| Bobbe I like BS Better. I,m to tired to keep up with you tonight, I well reply tomorrow JOEEEEEEEEEEYYYYY.SteelGuitarRaglia. |
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Kenny Foy
From:
Lynnville, KY, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2002 7:06 pm
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| H-E-L-L-O--------- Bobbe, do you even have a slight guess or would any one else as to how many steels mite be built in a year at these factories? |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2002 7:08 pm
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| Wish I did Kenny my boy, All I know is I need more, |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 1 Oct 2002 5:57 am
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Bobbe--You know a lot more than me because Uncle Doug got you started. I was stuck with Lloyd Nollinger and the E-harp. As far as being famous in Panama, no one remembers you. I have recently played at the Lakewood Legion, the Westfield Moose, the Warren Eagles, and the Big Tree. Everyone knows me and Uncle Doug but not YOU. Uncle Doug has been helping me and I'm improving. In a couple of months I'll be ready for a face-off at the Stedman Grange! We will let Uncle Doug and Billy Cole be the judges--you know they will be fair. Joe
P.S. I have never TWIRLED a LARIAT! |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 1 Oct 2002 6:33 pm
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Since
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