Interesting, it's funny how rumor's get started. Thanks for clearing that up !! :)

Well zzsounds cancelled the sale, said my credit was weak, but AMS made the same deal on the same dobro with no problem except that they too are back ordered. oh well just have to wait i guess.

I'm getting impatient with AMS, I may cancel the sale and get a used Boxcar instead.....we'll see. or maybe an alligator...

I switched guitars for practicing slide to a Pono 12-20 because it has 12 frets like the resonator guitars have.....I'm playing thru the Fender Deluxe Reverb, and added some reverb and the guitar sounds great--sometimes....I have a long way to go yet.....

I just auditioned a 2009 Prototype National Trlolian 12-fret (it actually has the old-timey decal headstock logo), in excellent condition with National HSC for $2150. I don't see this model offered in the current National model lineup.

Do any of you National aficionados have any good or bad things to say about the newer National Triolian 12-Fret Model? Thanks.

I bought a new one in walnut burst March 2020. ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!

https://i.imgur.com/PMfRyKP.jpg

It was made 04/19 for the Twelfth Fret in Toronto. It sat untouched in storage until I bought it. The 12th Fret is a big National dealer so it might have been a special order. Grant is the National guru there. They bring in a lot of neat models not listed on National's website.

https://www.12fret.com/brands/national/

When I got the artist deal with National it was the first model I chose to have built for me. I love mine! I had them use some extra nice flame maple on the neck and I had some slightly more ornate inlays installed...


https://i.imgur.com/6saHrPm.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eXjn7EY.jpg

well look at that sweet National, the recordings you're making with that guitar sound like it's being loved!

Thanks, J-Doug! That looks like the prototype in the shop except, as I recall from yesterday, it has the black-and-white National Trolian decal on the headstock.

Thanks, Rockabilly! The main difference I can tell between the Triolian and the Style O is that the Triolian body is steel-based whereas the Style O is bell-brass-based. Can you hear much difference between the two body materials? Thanks.

Thanks!

Well I'm not going to tell you to buy it but... ;)

There is a huge difference in tone to me, the bell brass is softer sounding. Is it a better sound? It's personal taste. I was playing a lot of aggressive blues when I first got my Trioilian and I think that sound works better for that. But for softer fingerpicking I think I would prefer the Style 0.

Thanks, Rockabilly! Being that I already have a good-sounding, bell-brass Republic Duolian, it would seem like the steel-body National Triolian would be a good reso to get to fulfill my National wishes. I still, however, would like a National Style O to quench my once-local resident Son House thingy.


From November 1964, Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York, autographed front-inside cover of my Pete Seeger How To Play The 5-String Banjo book:
http://www.kingstontrioplace.com/Son...1964RochNY.jpg

Just a quick update. I put a deposit on a Mule Mavis. I think it came down to me wanting to support a small luthier. Long wait but I’ve been waiting a long time to make a decision and roughing it out with blues on my D-28 for so long I guess another 10 months won’t matter :)

https://www.muleresophonic.com/produ...799-mavis-mule

Congrats! I’m so close to ordering a mavis as well, but I reallllly don’t need another guitar. **** they are cool looking though!