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Topic: Guyatone six string lap
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Frank Parish
Member From: Nashville,Tn. USA
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posted 02 July 2005 10:49 AM
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I've just bought a Guyatone six stringer and was wondering if anybody knew anything about these guitars? I looked on their website but couldn't find anything out there. The guy I got it from said it was from the 60's or 70's. I don't know but for rock this thing screams. It has two pick-ups, a tone knob, volume knob and two switches that change the tone too. It's white and has three hole type inserts where it could have had legs at one time but there are no sockets there. Just wondering if anybody ever had one. |
HowardR
Member From: N.Y.C.,N.Y.
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posted 02 July 2005 11:36 AM
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I have one but as I'm away from home for a week, I won't be able to post a photo. Yes, it comes, supposed to anyway with 3 legs. Mine is green. It's nicely made and inexpensive. Mine has ok sound. |
Jeff Strouse
Member From: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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posted 02 July 2005 05:34 PM
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Here's a D-8 Guyatone I had. I sold it a few years ago, but sometimes wish I hadn't. I thought it was a good sounding guitar. It was a 23 inch scale with nice wide string spacing. The black and white color design was sharp looking. Guyatone was a Japanese company. They also made guitars under the name of Guya...I think Guyatone was the steel line. I've seen some Guyatones that were made to resemble the Stringmaster Fenders with the two pickups. But mine only had one pickup per neck and didn't look like a Fender. I at least should have taken some more (and better) pics of it before I sold it. Or better yet, I should have kept it.
 [This message was edited by Jeff Strouse on 02 July 2005 at 05:43 PM.] |
Rick Alexander
Member From: Florida, USA
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posted 02 July 2005 06:08 PM
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Frank, does it look something like this one, holes and all?  
This one actually sounds pretty good. Not exactly my "main axe", but I love it and would never part with it . . |
Ron Victoria
Member From: Metuchen, New Jersey, USA
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posted 02 July 2005 06:10 PM
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Ok Rick, $49 and I'll throw in a few blend knobs!!!Ron |
Rick Alexander
Member From: Florida, USA
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posted 02 July 2005 06:23 PM
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Rick Alexander
Member From: Florida, USA
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posted 02 July 2005 06:51 PM
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BTW, that's a piece of Velcro over the center hole. It was on there when I got it and I never took it off.
And the 4 screw holes that might have been for a mounting plate of some kind of stand . . .
Of all the 50s and 60s Japanese Stringmaster Knockoffs I've played, it's the nicest.
I guess it was their answer to the Fender Deluxe6! |
George Rout
Member From: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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posted 02 July 2005 07:02 PM
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I have one also, and although it's not my favourite instrument, it has an okay sound. The problem I would have with mine is that it has cream coloured rocker switches where the pictures above show slide switches. I find I hit the rockers too easily. While they're a better idea than the slides, the rockers could be better positioned. Geo |
Frank Parish
Member From: Nashville,Tn. USA
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posted 03 July 2005 12:42 AM
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Rick,
That's the same guitar that I have. The string spacing is very wide and and so far it's doing a fine job for me. I put some new strings on it today and tuned it open E (E B G# E B E) Works for me. |
George Keoki Lake
Member From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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posted 03 July 2005 12:30 PM
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I have a student who owns a Guyatone with the two rocker switches such as "Handsome" George Rout described. They were so annoying, one of my other students who is in electronics took them out and replaced them with a simple switch arrangement.
Guyatones are simply a poor man's Fender, if that.  [This message was edited by George Keoki Lake on 03 July 2005 at 12:31 PM.] |
Frank Parish
Member From: Nashville,Tn. USA
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posted 04 July 2005 03:34 AM
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I have a friend who bought a six string Fender like the Guyatone and he payed $20 for it a yard sale. I borrowed it from him for a couple of months when we were doing some cowboy tunes and tried to buy it from him but he wouldn't part with it. The one that caught my eye recently was the one PF is using on the Players DVD. Does anybody know anything about it? Is it a Ricky? |
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