Were the people calling you able to verify the build date of their guitars? Perhaps they are guitars built prior to your purchase of the name?

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They refuse to tell me when and where they got them.

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This is odd.....why are they calling you? For parts? Why won't they tell you where/when they got their guitar, yet at least one of them *will* send you a picture?

It seems unlikely there is any scam going on. At best, they just may be guitars built well over 10 years ago and these people just need parts. At worst, there is a guy in the middle of Idaho making 3 pedal steels a year and calling them "Nashville LTD" without knowing or caring that you own the name (not that it's right, but it would be awfully difficult to persue, prove, etc. and too costly).

If I'm not mistaken, the old owner of Nashville LTD is Gary Rittenberry, and he builds a line of guitars called Le Garrett. Perhaps if you sent him the picture, he could tell you if it is one of the guitars that he built pre-1993.

Besides, you say the "fake" looks very different. But then, it wouldn't be a "fake", would it?

Is it only the decal you are worried about? If that is the case, why wouldn't they use an Emmons decal or a Sho-Bud decal?

Are you telling me that you've never seen an LTD?

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The low quality pictures on your website are not suitable for identification

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Ron

Nikaro SD10 4x6

[This message was edited by Ronald Steenwijk on 11 December 2004 at 04:40 AM.]

Bobbe do you have some of those boards????
I like them.
If you got some left i would like to buy some of them.
Please mail me my Friend.

Ron

I sent pic`s in good faith and there was nothing about him wanting the c/n and never did i say it was a new guitar.I bought the guitar in a PX from a good freind of mine who owns Rainbow music in Ireland,and he is a good honest man and would never state anything he thought was not what he thought it was,he bought the Nashville LTD in good faith from a guy in the States who said it was a N/VLTD and is in no way to be blamed because he trusted the seller of the guitar when he was told it was a N/V LTD.

I am sure Ted will help if he can in any way he can to find the details of the guitar in question because it seems he may have been miss imformed as i was, and he is no way to to be blamed in any way for thinking the guitar was not a Nashville LTD because like myself i had never seen one before,but i will say this the guitar after cleaning the changer and putting it back together it is a very nice steel.

JG Emmons legrand ect.

[This message was edited by Jimmy Gibson on 11 December 2004 at 10:50 AM.]

Do you have the list of serial numbers from Gary Rittenberry when he built the Nashville LTD? Perhaps these guitars are from when he built them, and they have just been modded over the years. I wouldn't call them fake just because you don't have a record from when you have been building them...they could very well be 20-year-old guitars?

Just trying to help....it just seems way too unlikely that somebody would be making a couple of guitars and calling it a Nashville LTD without your consent.

Ronald, yes I have some fretboards left, I'll check.

Ron

Nikaro SD10 4x6

[This message was edited by Ronald Steenwijk on 11 December 2004 at 12:42 PM.]

Why, I'd horsewhip him!!

(if'n I had a horse that is)

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Give the man some slack

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Let's all kick in and give him some slacks for Christmas. What's his inseam?

[This message was edited by HowardR on 11 December 2004 at 01:29 PM.]

Ron

Nikaro SD10 4x6

[This message was edited by Ronald Steenwijk on 11 December 2004 at 03:11 PM.]

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Why would someone fake a Nashville LTD? It's not exactly the hottest guitar on the market.

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I imagine that's exactly why he did it! Emmons and Sho~Bud are pretty well known, and a lotta people know what to look for in these steels. There's so few NashVille LTD's around that nobody but Mr. Naylor knows what they're supposed to look like!