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    Original 1950 Broadcaster

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Quote Originally Posted by 60pinstripe View Post
    Original!


    I want to post an image.
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    I'd love to see it! First, your photo must be on a publicly available web site. Flickr is one such. Then, use the "Inert Image" button in the editing tools above your text area and paste in the URL, beginning with "http" or https" and ending in ".jpeg" If you need more instructions, you can read this post.

    Looking forward to seeing your guitar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 60pinstripe View Post
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    You don't write HTML. The vBulletin software does that for you. Simply write your message and use the options boxes to add URLs, photos, highlights and so on. I use the Size and Color options to make the text look the way I like it.

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    I'd love to see that broadcaster. way back in '74, when I was a snot-nosed brat, I had traded in my first guitar (yamaha hollow body 335-ish thing) towards my dream guitar, a Stratocaster. I was so proud of that thing. I was over some kid's house showing it off to friends when he brought out his dad's guitar and asked if I wanted to trade. It was a battered 13 year old telecaster with just the Fender logo and no model name. Even then I knew what it was, a broadcaster that was made with a clipped down logo because gretsch sued fender over the name. I had learned that in Guitar Player. But to me at that time it was just an old guitar with a lot of wear on the neck and tons of paint missing, rusty screws. I think it was even missing a string or two. I turned it down.

    sigh

    could have, should have. can't say I would have because I didn't. Had I know that 30 years later what that guitar would be worth, well ...

    As it turned out, that Strat was a dog, a lemon. When I sold it the buyer had to get a new neck and two pickups in order to make it playable. I thought it was just me that sucked. Well, that was true but I didn't even know you could change parts on a guitar. Like I said, I was green

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Whoa, I want to see those pics too!!

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Wow.

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Beautiful? That's GORGEOUS!

    Any more pics to delight us with?

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    That's beautiful!

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    Very nice! Lustworthy fer sher!

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    ZOMG

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Ohhhh yeaaa!

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Soooo nice!
    If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Another Pic
    Last edited by 60pinstripe; 02-23-2018 at 06:01 PM.

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    This is like a couple of long lost Betty Page Pics - More! MORE!!!
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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Possibly the most perfect electric solidbody guitar ever made right there
    DANG

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Sweet guitar! I would love to play her..

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Very Nice !!!
    Pretty Mint too...

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    WOW!?!?
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    Nah, no compensated saddles. So, most of the guys here would never be able to play it, LOL!
    "No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim

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    Compensated saddles or not, I’d play the shit out of it.
    If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Oh snap!

    Tell us more Please!
    What happend?
    Who let the magic smoke out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Angler View Post
    Nah, no compensated saddles. So, most of the guys here would never be able to play it, LOL!
    Too many choices there. Where's the wrap tail on it? How do you ever get it in tune?

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    Oh heck yes, I'd slap a set of Glendale saddles on there to make it play in tune, & put the original pieces in a little ziploc® baggie w/a desi-pak®

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

    Neck pickup has a hollow, throaty tone and measures 6.5.
    Bridge is a scathing 8.3.
    Original winds.
    Last edited by 60pinstripe; 03-05-2018 at 05:35 AM.

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    Re: Original 1950 Broadcaster

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