Back from Austin

[Peter Huggins]

Drove from CA to TX for the Austin Guitar Show, which was tied in with
SXSW. Load in was 5 am Saturday morning, we got there at 4 and could
hear bands playing over in one of the clubs. Admission was free for the
public; still it was a smaller show with only about 30 dealers. They
took up about two-thirds of the hall and the other third was a record
show (vinyl, CDs, posters art and memorabilia). There was also a Stevie
Ray Vaughan museum display.

Anyway, I picked up two lap steels, both Fenders: a very early 'organ
button' model made of mahogany, and a MOTS Champion that has been pretty
boogered - tuners switched out and the pots changed and the
Broadcaster-like pickup replaced with a Strat pickup. Also the cavity
has some routing. Despite these damages, the guitar was in a custom fit
heavy duty flight case. I also looked at but passed on a very heavy Rick
double - 6, a Silver Hawaiian, a Magnatone and a couple of Supros.

This makes 4 lap steels now, the others are the Mighty Slingerland and a
Volu-Tone. Guess I am zeroing in on the early stuff... the bug has hit
me badly.
Having Fun! Dallas in a couple more weeks... ;-)

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[Tony Done]

Post by Peter Huggins
Drove from CA to TX for the Austin Guitar Show, which was tied in with
SXSW. Load in was 5 am Saturday morning, we got there at 4 and could
hear bands playing over in one of the clubs. Admission was free for the
public; still it was a smaller show with only about 30 dealers. They
took up about two-thirds of the hall and the other third was a record
show (vinyl, CDs, posters art and memorabilia). There was also a Stevie
Ray Vaughan museum display.
Anyway, I picked up two lap steels, both Fenders: a very early 'organ
button' model made of mahogany, and a MOTS Champion that has been pretty
boogered - tuners switched out and the pots changed and the
Broadcaster-like pickup replaced with a Strat pickup. Also the cavity
has some routing. Despite these damages, the guitar was in a custom fit
heavy duty flight case. I also looked at but passed on a very heavy Rick
double - 6, a Silver Hawaiian, a Magnatone and a couple of Supros.
This makes 4 lap steels now, the others are the Mighty Slingerland and a
Volu-Tone. Guess I am zeroing in on the early stuff... the bug has hit
me badly.
Having Fun! Dallas in a couple more weeks... ;-)
guitarmaniax 'at' msn.com
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I don't think I could have passed on the Rick double. What made you go for
the Fenders instead of Supro?

I'm still hoping to find a Rick Frypan in a garage sale. Fat chance.

Tony D

[Peter Huggins]

<<< I don't think I could have passed on the Rick double. What made you
go for the Fenders instead of Supro?
I'm still hoping to find a Rick Frypan in a garage sale. Fat chance.
Tony D >>>

Well Tony, the Fenders were more valuable than the Supro (and much rarer
than it in the case of the organ button model). Also the Champion came
with this really nice form-fit flight case, probably worth a couple
hundred bucks by itself. And the owner of the Supro didn`t want to come
down on his price (besides, I had owned an eight-string version
previously). There are lots of Supros around but very few of those organ
button guitars, I hadn`t seen one for sale in years.

The Silver Hawaiian was beautiful but it didn`t really sound all that
good, not like a bakelite body Ricky (I have a line on one of those now,
working on a deal).

And the double 6 was the heaviest thing I have ever seen, it was like it
was made of lead, and no legs - hard to imagine playing it on the lap
for any length of time. Back in high school a friend`s father had a very
similar model, a double eight string. I don`t recall it being anywhere
near as heavy as this one. Besides, it will probably show up again at
Dallas so I can get another crack at it!

Frying pans are nice, although I have played one or two that were not so
good. The best one I ever played was a Jerry Byrd 8 string model. Those
were not actually made by Rickenbacker but had the horseshoe pickup and
all the proper appointments. They still seem to be in demand (the one I
played was already sold by the time I saw it) but they do turn up from
time to time. If you are looking for a real frying pan I can keep an eye
out for you but they usually aren`t cheap and don`t come up very often
(like you, I keep an eye out for yard sales, ya never know).

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