VERY unusual steel on Ebay...yet again!

Lem Smith · Post by **Lem Smith** » 19 Jan 2005 5:43 pm

Here's another one for the books, when it comes to steels on Ebay! Interesting, to say the least.

Lem http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=621&item=3776844290&rd=1

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 19 Jan 2005 6:17 pm

Well, here we go again..bout the time i think we seen it all!!!something else pops up.oh boy and wood legs toooooooooooooo
farris

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 19 Jan 2005 6:59 pm

A Quaker steel?

Herman Visser · Post by **Herman Visser** » 19 Jan 2005 7:06 pm

That would be to cool to have as decortion in my den.If the price is right.I bet it has tone all the way to the floor. I buy it for what it is an all wood (steel) guitar

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 19 Jan 2005 7:09 pm

Shaker?

Herman Visser · Post by **Herman Visser** » 19 Jan 2005 7:11 pm

Sorry for the missing A in decoration
Wife not home to check my spelling

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 19 Jan 2005 7:23 pm

I like it!

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 19 Jan 2005 7:45 pm

WOW,they don't get no cooler than that!!sure like to see under the hood!!bet she got wooden dowels for linkage.that wood be a keeper in my book!!wonder how the legs come off?? farris

Billy Joe Bailey · Post by **Billy Joe Bailey** » 19 Jan 2005 8:51 pm

Lem that looks like a steel that Jesus might have built in his carpenters shop,at least I bet it dont walk like some steel's tend to do
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Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 19 Jan 2005 9:03 pm

man i got such an urge to pop a bid on that one,that thing look so neat sitting in middle of room or next to fireplace!!not everday we get a chance to own one like that.makes me want to try wooden legs on my old sho=bud!!!mabe take my saw horses,and use them for legs. farris

Brendan Mitchell · Post by **Brendan Mitchell** » 19 Jan 2005 10:29 pm

Looks like Emmons key head and maybe changer as well.

Lem Smith · Post by **Lem Smith** » 20 Jan 2005 12:16 am

Even the pedals look like they are made from wood. The bid is only around $101.00 at the time I'm posting this...one of you guys oughta go for it. Farris, just don't get it TOO CLOSE to the fireplace...after all, it is made of wood!

Lem

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 20 Jan 2005 5:27 am

All the bidders so far have zero feedback....

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 20 Jan 2005 7:10 am

VERY cool... but a little scary... bob

John Cox · Post by **John Cox** » 20 Jan 2005 3:56 pm

I thought this would be one for the "house of wood" .

Jon Steel · Post by **Jon Steel** » 20 Jan 2005 4:33 pm

here are some pics of this steel - the woodworking looks excellent:

<img src=http://dragonflybridge.com/wood_steel/psteel.jpg>

<img src=http://dragonflybridge.com/wood_steel/psteel1.jpg>

<img src=http://dragonflybridge.com/wood_steel/psteel2.jpg>

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 20 Jan 2005 6:45 pm

It's an all-wood Maverick!

It looks to me like the legs are maple and the cabinet some kind of walnut. Whatever it is, it's some pretty nice woodwork.

About ten years ago, legendary San Antonio steel player/builder Jerry Blanton came up to me at a Johnny Bush gig in Bandera TX. Jerry, a monster player and builder, is well known as an occasionally eccentric

genius, and he was telling me about a guitar he was about to build, one entirely of oak.

When I asked about the machining of the changer and undercarriage, I found out that his plan was for the entire guitar,... undercarriage, bellcranks, rods (dowels), changer, what-have-you,... to be made of oak. We never discussed the legs.

Now, if he could carve it out of a solid block of wood, I might consider switching from my old Emmons guitars.

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Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 20 Jan 2005 7:48 pm

David Parker in Dallas has made several very nice all wood steels. S10s and D10s. David glues them up and then cuts the whole thing out on his cnc including tuning key head and roller/axle support. I have an S10 non pedal he made that way and even has a beautiful fret board that is illuminated from underneath such that the frets and markers glow.

Rainer Hackstaette · Post by **Rainer Hackstaette** » 21 Jan 2005 1:36 am

I would guess that the metal hardware - keyhead, changer, undercarriage - come from a MarketRite Mark I guitar. In the seventies, MarketRite sold a Maverick clone in kit form for $ 149.00.

Rainer

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Scott Howard · Post by **Scott Howard** » 21 Jan 2005 6:10 am

I have a friend who calls steels pedal tables! I wonder if this was the first steel he saw , because it sure fits in this case.

Herman Visser · Post by **Herman Visser** » 24 Jan 2005 2:42 pm

Current bid $150

Jon Steel · Post by **Jon Steel** » 24 Jan 2005 3:56 pm

Looks like there are no pedal stops - the floor must be the stop!

Beware of unlevel floors!

Grant Johnson · Post by **Grant Johnson** » 24 Jan 2005 4:10 pm

Wow I can actually hear the cabinet drop just by looking at the photo!

J D Sauser · Post by **J D Sauser** » 26 Jan 2005 8:28 am

After having seen here and especially on e-bay some horror home made jobs and butchering mods (even by some selfproclaimed "pros" who whould have known better) I think this one deserves some nice comments.
It may not be perfect but it's very clean in many aspects and obviously build with a lot of love to detail and quality craftmanship and I think that besides the lack of pedal stops (it may just stop at the changer), it may be an absolutely playable student guitar and project easily equal to a Maverrick.

Who ever built it should be comended for the job.

Just my opinion... J-D.

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