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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Early 1930's Regal-made Dobro guitar. Can we identify the date of manufacture please? | | Date: | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 08:36:36 (-0400) | | From: | George Rout <georout @......ca>
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Hello Danny Turner & Mark Clifton:
Thank you both for your comments which I am collecting for my buddy. I
negflected to mention that his is a 6 string.
Danny, who is Mark A (if you can say) in your response? Did I miss some
response?
George
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tanner" <dcsrt@qwest.net>
To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Early 1930's Regal-made Dobro guitar. Can we
identify the date of manufacture please?
> Hi George - Like Mark, I too have a very similar pre-war Regal made
> Dobro. It has a solid headstock which puts it around mid 30's also. It's
> always hard to nail down exact years with these as the serial numbers are
> very unreliable but the fact that it is a solid head with no holes puts
> it in the mid, maybe late 30's. Has the faux mahogany finish, no binding
> on the square neck. Mike A looked at it and said it looked exactly like
> his two but that mine had an earlier serial number (again, not
> necessarily significant). Chicago made definitely with no 3-holes. Model
> 37. It's a keeper. - Dave
>
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Mark Clifton wrote:
>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> I'll attempt to help with this. I have a similar pre-war Regal dobro
>> that was originally a 7 string guitar but the body description resembles
>> what you have described.
>>
>> Mine is a dark sunburst with a feux mahogony finish.
>> Slotted headstock with Chicago identifying features. Don't know about
>> the solid headstock.
>> No identifying numbers anywhere.
>> No 3 holes at the end of the fingerboard.
>> Square neck but tapered at the body (Chicago Regal clue)
>> No neck binding
>> Body has top and bottom binding
>>
>> My guitar has been estimated as having been built by Regal in 1936
>> originally as a 7 string dobro. That's all I know.
>>
>> The experts to check with are Randolph Getz and Tom Gray who know lots
>> more about all things dobro than I do. Hopefully they might chime in.
>>
>> Mark
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