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Topic: Nashville LTD SD-1`0
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Lyndel Anderson
Member From: Indiana, USA
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posted 26 January 2006 05:03 PM
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Typo SD-10. Anyone know anything about these guitars? I am thinking about buying one. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!------------------
[This message was edited by Lyndel Anderson on 26 January 2006 at 05:18 PM.] |
William Griffith
Member From: Loxahatchee, FL, USA
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posted 26 January 2006 05:43 PM
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Hello, I've got one, for all I know it may be a fake but it sounds relly nice and stays in tune really well. Mine plays easy and dosen't break strings. Bill |
Ron Steenwijk
Member From: Greensburg,PA
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posted 26 January 2006 07:49 PM
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Lyndel,my wife plays one of those and I must say that they are really a good steel guitar.
My wife has one of the origional ones.Like almost anybody on the forum here I know to that Ed Naylor (God rest his soul) made LTD's to.So there are two different type's.
I am not familiar with the differences between these two type's.
There for you have to ask someone lese who has a little more knowledge about these guitars.But all I wanted to say is that I like the steel and like William said before....They play good,stay in tune and do not have much string breakage.Go for it is my advise. Ron ------------------
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Billy Carr
Member From: Seminary, Mississippi USA
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posted 26 January 2006 07:58 PM
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I had four of the NV.- Ltd. guitars when they first came out. The only one that was actually a good guitar in my opinion, was the Doug Jernigan model NV- Ltds. It was a D-10, black mica w/E66's on it. Nice guitar. The other three were S-10D's. I may have just purchased the other three at the wrong time or something but they were nothing but trouble. |
Ben Jones
Member From: Washington, USA
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posted 27 January 2006 08:16 AM
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I just recently purchased a Nashville Ltd. SD-10. Here is the deal.
Ed Naylor (rip) purchased the name Nashville Ltd. some time in the early nineties I beleive. If you search the forums here for Nashville Ltd. you will find many many bad things said about Mr. Naylor and his guitars. Most of these attacks seem directed at Mr. Naylor personally. It is unclear if Mr. Naylor actually ever built a guitar himself or simply purchased the name and sold the remaining stock. I am a beginner and not well versed in various brands and their quality, but the guitar I purchased is solid, stays in tune, and has a nice tone and sustain. It has three pedals and five knees. It is attractive and seems very well built. So my advice for what little it is worth is to ignore the flap over Mr. Naylor and his "faked" Nashvilles and try the guitar if at all possible. I am glad I purchased mine.[This message was edited by Ben Jones on 27 January 2006 at 08:18 AM.] [This message was edited by Ben Jones on 27 January 2006 at 08:19 AM.] [This message was edited by Ben Jones on 27 January 2006 at 08:20 AM.] |
Steven Black
Member From: Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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posted 27 January 2006 09:35 AM
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Ed did build the guitars himself, I visited his shop before he passed away and he made most parts himself, I do not know who is building them now, if I ever find out I would buy one. |
Ben Jones
Member From: Washington, USA
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posted 27 January 2006 10:46 AM
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That is interesting to know that Ed DID build some guitars Steven. I was unsure of wether he did or not because he refused to answer that question from his attackers. I never had the pleasure of meeting Ed, but I have heard from people who did that he was a decent fellow who cared about Steel guitars and liked to help people.
My guitar was built before he bought the name, but for whatever part he may have played...Thank you Ed.
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Bobby Lee
Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA
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posted 27 January 2006 11:14 AM
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I would want to examine the guitar closely before buying it. Due the the change in ownership of the name, there is real confusion in the market about these guitars. I would advise against buying one sight unseen. The only way to be sure of the quality of a particular Nashville LTD guitar is to sit down and play it, IMHO. If you can't do that yourself, get an expert from the Forum to do it for you.------------------
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Ben Jones
Member From: Washington, USA
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posted 27 January 2006 11:25 AM
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I bought mine from my instructor who is also a forum member here, and he said the same thing Bobby just said...some Nashvilles were good and some less so. My instructor knew i needed a guitar and found this one for me, he checked it out for me first. |
Joe Alterio
Member From: Fishers, Indiana
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posted 27 January 2006 11:31 AM
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As much as I liked Ed, I think he was stirring up a controversy that never existed. He was constantly saying that people had "fake" LTDs.....what I believe to have been the case was that there are LTD's that were made by Gary Rittenberry (who was the original owner of the Nashville LTD name) and even though Ed bought the name and the rights in the early '90s, he may have felt that any guitar built prior to the ownership transfer was not a "real" LTD (read: one made by Ed Naylor himself).I have seen only two LTDs firsthand...one was owned by Jack Shrader down in Columbus, IN (who is a friend of Rittenberry's and was a dealer for those guitars)...he had a double-neck that was built by Rittenberry and was a solid machine that appeared to my (at the time) novice eyes to be a very well-built instrument. It sounded fine as well. I saw another at a local instrument shop about a year ago....also very well built and a good value at the price they were asking. I suspect it was built by Rittenberry as well, but I couldn't tell. As for Ed....Ed's main business was selling parts and gutting pedal steels (mainly Sho-Buds) and putting better changers in them....especially old Mavericks. The steels sometimes had poor finishes on them (my Maverick looked to be painted black with hobby model paint) and were basically built with two goals.....to provide someone with a solid starter instrument at a very good price. These were the days before Carter Starters.....and to buy a pedal steel for $300 in the mid-90s, including bar, picks, volume pedal, cables, instruction materials and a hands-on lesson.....well, Ed was OK in my book. Of course, I was able to hand him the money and get the stuff I was buying....I've heard mail-order with him was another story.....still, I'd like to believe he was a man of honest intentions. I am curious to hear from those who have Naylor-built LTD's and see what they have to say about the build quality and sound quality. I am even more curious if they were built as I suspect....using varied parts from steel to steel and of varying quality... Joe EDIT: The guitar that Jack Shrader owned that I was thinking of was a Le Garrett (also built by Rittenberry), not a Nashville LTD.[This message was edited by Joe Alterio on 28 January 2006 at 09:22 AM.] |
Steve Dodson
Member From: Sparta, Tennessee, USA
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posted 27 January 2006 04:07 PM
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The Nashville LTD's built by Gary Rittenberry where good guitars or Doug Jernigan would not have been playing one. As for after Ed Naylor ended up with the business, I don't know about any of them. Gary is building guitars again under his own name. And they are very very well made guitars. Gary has made some design changes which i feel has made a good guitar even better. Here's his cell phone number,I'm sure he would be glad to answer any of your questions about that guitar. you can reach him at 931-979-2290. |
Steven Black
Member From: Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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posted 27 January 2006 06:40 PM
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I feel that Ed's health really slowed him down and his commitment to building a new steel guitar diminished, he continued to upgrade old sho-bud's and student model guitars, I think a lot of people were effected by his health issues and his mind was not to good before he passed on, that is why I did not go back to him because I noticed he was losing track of where things were, if you ordered something you would probably never get it or he thought he had sent it but never did, you had to travel to his shop just to make sure you got what you needed. |
Ron Steenwijk
Member From: Greensburg,PA
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posted 27 January 2006 11:25 PM
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I can not speak for that Steven.I did a lot of bisuness with Ed and I never had that problem but maybe I was one of the lucky ones.I don't know.What I do know is that Ed was a man of his word.As far as the Rittenberry LTD's....I know for a fact that they are very good build guitars.Same as the Rittenberry's now a days.I know of a steel player that plays a GARITT steel that he bought from Bobbe Seymour and he says that it is from the same Gary Rittenberry.
I don't know about that.But someone told me once that Gary made a lot of these here LTD steel guitars.
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Ed did build the guitars himself, I visited his shop before he passed away and he made most parts himself
Almost all....thats true.And as far as the human Ed Naylor goes...there is no better man when it comes to having his heart in the right place at the right time.The man had a heart of gold and was a big help for many many steel players.Wether they were lapsteelplayers or pedal steelguitar players. Ed was also a great animal lover.His love for the animals was something that Ed should have been rewarded for. Thanks ED.... Ron ------------------
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Jack Stoner
Sysop From: Inverness, Florida
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posted 28 January 2006 03:11 AM
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I saw and played one of the original LTD's. A guy locally had bought it from John Lemay and brought it to me to set up and I gave him a couple of lessons. It had a George L's pickup in it and sounded pretty good, but I wasn't impressed with how the knee lever's worked or felt.The guy moved away and I think he sold the guitar. Maybe someone on the forum knows abouit this particular guitar. It was an S-10 or SD-10 - don't remember. |
Steven Black
Member From: Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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posted 28 January 2006 03:37 AM
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Hello Ronald, I do agree with you that Ed had a heart of gold when it came to steel players and he would extend himself to help a fellow steel player out, I do remember that Ed did say he bought the Nashville LTd company from another builder, and it is probably the Rittenberry guitar, I am not sure. |
Lyndel Anderson
Member From: Indiana, USA
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posted 28 January 2006 03:44 PM
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Thanks to everyone for the responses to my questions about the Nashville LTD SD-10.
So much good info and advise. Joe, found that live only one town away from Jack Shrader in Columbus, IN. Will contact him.
There is a wealth of info on this forum!!!
Thanks again,
Lyndel------------------
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