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Christmas dobro


Freeman Keller

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The old Nat basking in the light of the tree

 

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I have a dobro similar to that. Mine is a 33H with the larger cone. I must have bought it 20 plus years ago.

 

The larger cone is still a biscuit cone, unlike the F60 woody I have.

 

 

Back in the days before the net was big. I bought mine for Elderly Music out of there catalog they used to send out.

 

National was around, but I don't think National was going that well, and Dobro was far behind.

 

One thing I dislike about my dobro is it has no side fret markers and I'm always hovering over the thing.

 

I was think about taking it to my local luthier for side fret markers.

 

Other than that it's a real cool piece.

 

A guy named Mike Replogle was running the show in the mid 90's. I actually called OMI and a very old woman answered the phone. She was probably family of the Dopyera brothers , but I don't actually know that.

 

Mike Replogle I believe is still making cones. They need to be hand done and it's an art.

 

I don't know what happen to the Dobro tooling, but it might be gone for ever. The last real Dobro I saw that Gibson had was the wood body Jerry Douglas model.

 

 

I actually wish that Gibson would bring back the Dobros, instead of thinking about one more ways to gussy up a Les Paul.

 

 

 

 

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