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Don't know about your combo, but remove the back panel, and amp part, the speaker lugs/spades slide off. Screw driver removes the speaker.

Not a hollowbody, but it's tone chambered and not very costly. Look for the newer one with the blacktop pups. Just and idea.

Even new they are pretty inexpensive, but most standards. Not the best axe. It looks like a stress fracture. Could be for the pressure of the string and it could have been dropped. Personally if it comes with a hardshell case, that will probably be the best part of the deal. You do what you want, but I would pass on it.

Amen I actually know a local guy that plays accordion, he's really busy, so he doesn't play out very much. I ran into this retired guy that dropped into the local Celtic art museum fiddle jam on a Saturday more. Come to find out he was a semi retired anesthesiologist from Albany NY. He would just hear the melody one time through and join in. I was super impressed, but he had been playing a concertina for like 60 years. He said he works every day, cause being an anesthesiologist he was still in high demand. Never saw him again. [video=youtube;MH2eRRh4Bls] [video=youtube;Ishj4tX4Wzo]

I know a few folks that play accordion or concertina. I was told that this is the shop in the area to shop for one. http://www.buttonbox.com/

Back when I bought my 33H, National I don't think was making wood bodies. They could have been, but I didn't have there catalog. Dobro made both wood bodies and metal bodies. I bought my 33H right out of the Elderly catalog, when it was kind of a cheap newspaper catalog bound with a couple of staples. My first 33H came in with a dent in it and I sent t back to Elderly. I spoke with the women that ran OMI, and she sounded very old on the phone. I heard many of the OMI were relatives of Dopyera family and they could have been. I was told it really wasn't a dent, but a welding flex mark, which happened in the manufacturing and welding process. My F60 is a Nashville made one. I bought it from a shop outside of Knoxville. It'as a round neck wood body, and there's not much call for a round neck woodie in TN. It was not very costly, but sounds amazing. The last of the Dobro's were the Houndogs, which were initially made in the USA, then they went overseas Gibson makes no Dobros these days, and no banjos. I think there missing the boat on this too,but I head a lot of the tooling was destroyed or damaged. I bought a F5G mandolin last year and it sounds amazing. National makes a few wood bodies, Deering makes a killer banjo.I was at a local bluegrass fest a few years ago and one of the shops (not local) had at least a dozen nice deering banjos to choose from. The guy was begging to sell almost anything and didn't want to transport them back home. He had a very lovely Deering Boston 5 string and 6 string I was looking at, which he was selling for under a grand. I almost ran to the back, but I can't play the banjo yet. I actually don't know enough about the banjo to make a decision. I do know a few guys in the area that could give me lessons. I'm still working on the mandolin.

I believe that is a model 90 woodie 14th fret neck joint too Looks like yours has the biscuit bridge The model 90 came in both wood and chrome bell brass. The plate came in a few different styles too By 1993 Dobro was actually owned by Gibson and might have been made in Nashville and not California.

I know this thread is old as dirt, but it all depends who ya ask. Is the accordion dead, nope. [video=youtube;_7-PM_4aeE4] [video=youtube;o6WKE4aYgOw] [video=youtube;7m51ZUMZDQY] [video=youtube;SkkIwO_X4i4]

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I have a J45 and J185 that I bought in the early 90's when Gibson moved to Bozeman. The QC is good. They sound like Gibson stuff. Awesome. I also have 3 Martins. The warranty imo is worth it's weight in gold on Martin stuff. I wouldn't give you a plugged nickle for any Gibson warranty. So look for a good one and hope for the best. If you buy a new one it takes a bit of time to season up too. You'll know in a year or so what ya have.

oh and the Les Paul MF sent me was like this. I can't stand gold hardware

I like the Wine Red finish....I'm hoping it's a little darker than the picture with flash shows.....but wine red, gold top and vintage sunburst are my favorite LP finishes. Josh I was just wondering if you were around today? I have a lil story for ya, since you like wine red Les Pauls. I ordered and SG Classic and was not happy with it, the wood grain patterns were bad and you could see and basic mismatch of the wood. I have also owned a SG standard since 1980 and the wood is prefect, so the classic end up looking like scrap wood Gibson should have tossed. So I sent if back and what MF sent me the next time around was a Les Paul Studio in wine red with gold hardware. I was actually pissed, even though it cost more money and no body would have known if I kept it. Turns out Gibson does even do there own inventory work, but a company is hired to do it for em. They clowns jsut stuck it in a wrong shipping box. I end up sending that back in the hope of getting a decent SG classic.The clowns at MF send me back the one I had in the first place ( wrote down the serial number and the crappy wood grain pattern look very familiar to say the least). Anyway I finally got a decent SG Classic, with P90's I know you dig photos, so here my 1980 SG standard and the Classic with the P90's. My 1982 LP Gold top standard. If you look at the SG Standard pic, notice the slightly larger head stock and all the out put jack is mounted on the side. Not normal for an SG, but actually better.

Hey guys, About 3 months ago, I bought a Martin OM-28 John Mayer from the original owner off eBay. When I got the guitar I inspected it thoroughly and found it to be in close to immaculate condition. For being 5 years old and played, there was only one dent the size of a pencil tip in the top and the rest of the guitar was mint. About a month ago I noticed a bubble near the third fret on the neck of the guitar. The bubble got bigger and with a little pressure the finish flaked right off. Since then, the air bubbles have spread down the neck and the finish looks like it will inevitably continue to flake off. From all the research I've been able to, it appears this is actually the result of an error made when the guitar was finished, the result of some contamination under the finish. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm assuming I will have to take the guitar to a luthier, who will have to strip the remaining finish off the neck, and re-finish it. I'm also assuming my warranty is void since I am the second owner. Any input or advice is greatly appreciated since I've never had to deal with this and am a little frustrated since it's my dream guitar and I'm already having problems. Thanks you guys! -Jeff Ya you get no warranty with a used Martin, period. The problem I think you have is the finish that is fretboard sides is now starting to lift a bit. All my acoustic have some of this, both Gibson and Martins. It won't effect it. The thing is this is a strange area where the unfinsihed top part of the fret board mets the finished side of the fret boards and over time and over the season the fretbord expands ever so slightly with hummidity and temp changes. I take kick ass care of my guitars and like I said all of em have some of the finish that lifted off, or is lifting off. So guitars I have had for 20 yeas with out so much as a ding in em and it's still and issue. Guitars were ment to be played. No with out a warranty, if you ever need a neck reset it's gonna cost ya a nice hunk of change. Martin covered my mC 28 100% and even kicked in for a new bridge and saddle at my request. There warranty is so good, I turned around and bought 2 more Martins. I had the warranty work done by a local authorized luthier here in town.

I'm having trouble decoding the serial number on my dobro. i'm wondering the year. d5 073 96. Its a d style, wood body. Some codes i've seen say the last 2 are year digits, but the guy i bought it from said he bought it new in the 80s. This serial number doesnt conform to the 80s code either. Any help is appreciated. I'm pretty sure the 96 is the year it was made. the 073 is the 73 one made in the D5 series. 1-800 4 GIBSON can confirm this. Customer service is open 24/7. This one will be easy if it's a 96 model, Gibson bought OMI in about 93-94 OMI guitars the last letter was either a D=wood, B=metal, H=Hounddog, or P=solid peghead First letters are style. numerals in center are instrument ranking. yy is last two digits of year year. So yours is a D5 series, the 73rd one made for that year of 1996. I think the guy is lying to ya and a 5 in the D5 might even be a coded model #