What else do you have?

[dellison]

I did this earlier today and think it's just the coolest picture... So I have my Fender Strat, and a last week I bought a Squire Mini for the kids.

[dubtrub]

That's a cool picture and great way to pay tribute to your first guitar.

I read on your Blog that this is your Avatar on the Jamplay forum, why not make it your Avatar here.

Dad

[Dennisthe Menace]

That's a cool picture and great way to pay tribute to your first guitar.

I read on your Blog that this is your Avatar on the Jamplay forum, why not make it your Avatar here.

Dad

Duane, listen to Dad...."Father Knows Best."

[dellison]

Okay, done!

[brutus]

well i have
96 ibanez 825 talman silver sparkle with bigsby.. so cool
80 ibanez artist 335 type..sweet blues guitar
08 ibanez jet-king.... sorta mosrite looking
88 ibanez rg 570 strat.....can you say metal!
20's stella parlor guitar.... can you say blues
......amps.....
66 vox buckingham ....chime time
88 marshall jcm800 100watt with cab.... sad to say it's too loud for me nowadays
but sure sounds good with the combo!!!
i like ibanez, good product reasonable price. never been one for gibson or fender
when you own a mosrite you already have the best american made guitar made
(in my humble opinion) although i do like the telecaster deluxe

[zak]

well i have
20's stella parlor guitar.... can you say blues

Right on! I have a room full of these!

Here's some favorites:

Fancy late 20s Oscar Schmidt Stella


Late 20s or early 30s Oscar Scmidt First Hawaiian Conservatory


A pair of late 30s Oscar Schmidt guitars (OS's last gasp), a Marcia and a Collegiate


c. 1910 Columbia


WWI era Lyon & Healy Jupiter


1928 B&J serenader made by Stromberg-Voisenet, a truly incredible guitar!!


...but if you really want BLUES you can't beat these two - a 1931 (refinished) National Duolian and a 1930 (stripped) National Triolian. These are the guitars I'll be pushing around in a shopping cart when I'm homeless.

[dubtrub]

Great collection. You'd make Robert Johnson proud.

Love the parlor guitars, ........ and here I thought I was the only blues lover here.

Maybe someone needs to start a thread 'what music do you play or prefer?'. It would be interesting to see the diversity of music preferred by Mosrite aficionados.

[brutus]

Awesome! Zak
the one i have looks very similar to the first photo but without the binding on the body but with the same sound-hole design and tail piece it has the classical guitar style headstock (if i can figure out how upload photos with my mac) you might id it for me? thanks brutus..p.s. the resonators kick-ass

[Dennisthe Menace]

My God Zak! Your g.a.s. is worse than mine!! LOL!! Danny's right, the guitars you posted each
have their OWN STORY behind them.....maybe create another thread and edgeumacate us.
BTW-NICE Collection!

[zak]

Love the parlor guitars, ........ and here I thought I was the only blues lover here.

Haha I guess not. Probably my favorite form of music is pre-war country blues. It's literally all I play when I'm not onstage or at band practice. I rarely, if ever, play electric guitar at home.
If you want to hear some of my blues stuff... http://www.myspace.com/zakandhisunhappyguitar

the one i have looks very similar to the first photo but without the binding on the body but with the same sound-hole design and tail piece it has the classical guitar style headstock (if i can figure out how upload photos with my mac) you might id it for me?

Um...ID'ing Oscar Schmidt guitars isn't easy - there's very little documentation except for old catalogs, the models kinda underwent minor cosmetic changes over the years, and the one book I've seen (by Neil Harpe) is so sparse on actual information that I'd consider it to be a total waste of money. The soundhole decal was common on quite a variety of Stella models, almost every model they made was at some point available with OR without a tailpiece (the pin-bridge models were "standard" and the tailpiece could be ordered as part of a "hawaiian" setup with an extension nut). Makes matters confusing when trying to ID 'em. Most of 'em had a model number as opposed to a name, and I haven't really investigated that system...I just play 'em and enjoy 'em!

maybe create another thread and edgeumacate us

Um...I dunno, I don't really have much to say other than "they're old!" or "they sound good!"
Let's see...the First Hawaiian Conservatory guitar is the exact same model that Blind Willie Johnson appears with in his one known photograph.
The pair of late 30s OS guitars came from an era when OS was going belly-up and their leftover parts were being bought up by Harmony. From this era you find OS guitar parts assembled at Harmony's Chicago plant, sometimes OS bodies with Harmony necks, or vice versa. The Marcia's neck (the one with the non-slotted headstock) is clearly a Harmony product, but the body is OS, complete with square-cut top kerfling. Both are all-birch and insanely loud, but not as nicely made as the older ones.
The Columbia is probably a Lyon & Healy product, but I'm not 100% sure. It's unusual in the sense that it is NOT a v-neck, must be one of ther earliest steel-strings around. The tailpiece has a patent date of 1896.
The L&H Jupiter is an interesting design, it has "transverse" bracing - the top brace under the soundhole is diagonal, which is probably what gives that guitar its insane bass response. It sounds like it's tuned low even when it's in standard tuning. Very piano-like tone.
The B&J Serenader was made by Stromberg-Voisenet, the company that eventually became Kay. It has a really nice "bouncy" tone and it's very well suited to ragtime, I (try to) play Blind Blake songs on it and it (the guitar, not my playing) sounds just like the records, minus the surface noise haha.
As for the Nationals...what can I say? "My acoustic guitar can kill your acoustic guitar" haha. The Duolian has the seldom-seen "hooks" coverplate...the Triolian has a highly unusual tiger-striped maple neck that you never see on Triolians (they used the cheaper unfigured maple), it looks like a Style O neck. Maybe the guitar was intended to be an early steel-bodied Style O that didn't take well to plating (that's why they were made out of brass after the first batch) and got painted at the factory. That was not uncommon, apparently. Or they just ran out of Triolian necks and slapped a Style O neck on it. Who knows? They're cool...and LOUD...and sound beautiful.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming...