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12-10-2018, 10:48 AM
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Crackling fire
Thanks!
I'm going to add this info to my main post, but I just received an email from Charles Robinson - the premier Bay State Historian: Hi Shaun, Thanks for contacting me about your guitar, I have added it to the registration file. It is only the 2nd style 10 I have registered, compared to about 25 style 9's. I have included a page from the c.1895 catalog describing your guitar with the purchase price at that time. This was the Bay State budget guitar at the time, having a maple back and sides instead of the Brazilian rosewood. Very Unusual to find one of these in the concert size. If I was just going on your photos I would have thought yours had a rosewood back and sides. But they were very good at disguising the maple to look like rosewood. I love these maple backed Bay States, the sound is mellow and I prefer them to the rosewood models for sound. Beautiful restoration job! Thanks again for sharing. All the best Charles Robinson Bay State Guitar Research Project
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12-11-2018, 09:56 AM
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No affiliation with the seller, but have owned two Bay State guitars before. Both were terrific, but don't get the love they deserve. This one's a beauty.
GLWTS. Bob
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12-11-2018, 08:55 PM
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Thanks Bob!
I just added the 1895 promo materials for this guitar. This is the top model, according to the add. It's pretty fun!
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12-14-2018, 06:48 PM
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Price drop!
I'm dropping the price to $1000. It's a steal for one in such great shape, plus in a concert model 10, there are only known to be 2 - so it's rare...
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12-25-2018, 05:22 PM
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Bump
I have had some interest but no bites. I just played this at an open mic last Friday and she sounded awesome in front of the condenser mic. I had a line of people afterwards asking about it and if they could try it... It was fun!
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12-27-2018, 10:38 AM
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Bump
Check it out - price lowered!
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01-01-2019, 11:53 AM
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Bump
Shoot me an offer...I need to sell (bills coming that need to be paid).
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04-10-2019, 03:20 PM
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Has this been sold? I just picked up a BS with same description as yours. Serial # 13376.
If hasn't been sold, I'm interested. Does it come with a case? If this is the same one, what's the name of the case you sold it with. Looks like a vintage electric g. case. Thanks, Patrick Last edited by PatrickMadsen; 04-10-2019 at 10:22 PM. |
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04-15-2019, 12:15 AM
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Yep, Seems I bought this one from my friend who bought it from Shaun. It's a great little Parlor. I brought to a bluegrass group the other day and it blew the Martin dreds out of the water. Easiest guitar I've played. It's so lightly braced I can feel the whole body of the guitar vibrate. The extra light steel strings add a lot of sustain.
Since Shaun had it we had a severe cold snap. Seems the guy I bought it from didn't have the experience for taking care of a guitar so old in low humidity conditions. It sustained three small cracks in the back that was repaired by a qualified vintage luthier. He also had a complete fret replacement and leveling out the fretboard. With the work Shaun had done on it and my friends work to it; it's in perfect condition. One thing about playing a guitar so old is it seems the ghosts of players past come out and throw in a few licks. I'm playing riffs and combinations I've never done before. Kind of surreal in a way. |
