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Lloyd Hale.."It's only Rock and Roll"..
Our own Lloyd Hale, and his weapon of choice back in the 60's..
Here's Lloyd on the process: Looking back on it now, it seems like a natural transition to go from Guitar maker to Knife maker... in 1967 I made this solid body Guitar and sold it to John Phillips of the "Mamma's and Papa's" ... I made my own Pickups and Frets.... the only thing I didn't make on this Guitar were the Tuning Keys and Bigsby Vibrato.... At the time I lived in Riverside California.... about 40 mile east of the Fender Guitar plant..... The electronic engineers explained the principles of the electric pickups to me so I was off and running.... The first pictures shows the Walnut and Ash I used and the second one shows my set up for winding the pick ups 4 saucers using 10 marbles helped me keep track of the count of wraps per pickup ..7000 on one 9000 on the other.... The neck being glued up and the pre shaping of the body.... This was my first venture into building anything..... pryor to getting married in 1960 I played Lead Guitar in a Rock and Roll band in Denver Colorado, So I had a knowlege of Guitars and Music...... But I was self taught and wouldn't take lessons and truth be known I was a very average guitar player.. so when My new wife gave me the ultimatum of either Her or Music I rightly chose Her and the move to Riverside California.. I made the guitar on a sheet on our living room floor.. |
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Guitar cont....
I designed and built my own neck reinforcement and adjustment bar.. ...(With the pickups being made and wound..Each wind was counted using a homemade abacus with marbles..)..Rich The guitar disassembled.. |
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Guitar Part 3..
"It took a year of filing on the floor to get this done..(My wife was not so understanding)" A young 30 year old Hale...... I took the Guitar down to the R and D department of the Fender Guitar Company and they put it on their Oscilloscope for testing the sound quality and they were impressed .... I did a little more work for John... I would like to know where this Guitar is at now.... I think Denny Doughrty would know ... I think he's in Toronto Canada.. I know there are a lot of guitar players here, (makers too, Don Cowles for one..), and I think those photos bring back some memories.. That is some guitar..It had the "Hale Touch" even back then. Lloyd said this axe wasn't that heavy weight wise, but look at the photo's and tell me if you believe that..LOL.. Thanks for sending these Lloyd...Rich |
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Simply incredible! Who'd a thunk??!
Rich, I KNOW you are enjoying this journey?you ol' Rock Star yourself. And Lloyd--congratulations on your past endeavor! This axe is still somewhere with many admirers. What a young stud, too! Coop |
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Thanks Rich for posting this .. We thought it might be fun to see what We all did before finding our way into knifemaking... About a year after making this I discovered a Randall Model 3 and my fate was sealed... Between Bo and Gary Randall and Tommy Bish they launched me in the right direction .. I loved Music, but knives became a seductive mistress to me and has never let me down... I've let Her down a few times but she always takes me back and my Collectors forgive my transgressions.... Yes, I make a bad one now and then.... it's in my Genes I guess.......there's a knife of mine out there that has a handle made from part of this Guitar.... I saw it at Ed Wormsers show.....
I think I made the knife in 1968.... I suddenly feel very very old.......... __________________ Lloyd Hale Last edited by Lloyd Hale; 02-02-2005 at 05:49 AM. |
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That's a really neat story and one groovy geeetar.
Roger |
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Veerrryy cool geetar. Seems to me there's another decent knifemaker from Riverside...can't place the name.. Anyhoo, must be something in the H20 out there.
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Guit Fiddles
I have a combo for sale on e-bay at the moment:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3780094129 Mark __________________ Custom Knives
by Mark Pesetsky http://www.pmsknives.com knifeman@netscape.com |
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