The Totally Miscellaneous non-Alembic Guitar and Bass Thread

[cozmik_cowboy]

Have they made any 5s this century besides the Claire's Guitar?

I have yet to encounter one in the flesh 9in the wood?)

Peter

Mmmm. I'm thinking my 5-15 was early 2000's, which gets it in under the wire. I'm thinking they made a Sting sig. Terz too about the same time. The 5-18 and 5-21 had relative success in the 20th C. Marty Robbins played one. I don't remember a 5-28 but I'd have to check the Gospels of Michael and Richard to see if any show up in their production totals.

According to Professor Google, the 5-28 debuted in 1898 & switched from gut to steel in 1916; doesn't give a hard end date, but says 5s "faded out by the 1980s".

Of course, anything seen there should be taken with an Illinois DOT snowplow full of salt, but that's what I found.

Peter

[adriaan]

Taylor have a Jacob Collier Signature 5 out.

[edwardofhuncote]

Have they made any 5s this century besides the Claire's Guitar?

I have yet to encounter one in the flesh 9in the wood?)

Peter

Mmmm. I'm thinking my 5-15 was early 2000's, which gets it in under the wire. I'm thinking they made a Sting sig. Terz too about the same time. The 5-18 and 5-21 had relative success in the 20th C. Marty Robbins played one. I don't remember a 5-28 but I'd have to check the Gospels of Michael and Richard to see if any show up in their production totals.

According to Professor Google, the 5-28 debuted in 1898 & switched from gut to steel in 1916; doesn't give a hard end date, but says 5s "faded out by the 1980s".

Of cross, anything seen there should be taken with an Illinois DOT snowplow full of salt, but that's what I found.

Peter

I looked it up to see for my own curiosity.

There are listings for Size 5 in Styles 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, 30, 34, 35, 42, and 45, from 1898-1987. (that doesn't include the T's or G's.) Some of those are one-off guitars. I see only one 5-35 listed in 1971. Only one 5-45. Only two 5-42's. By far the Style 18 was the most popular. The 5's were reintroduced early in the 21st C. in a couple Styles and Signature Models. Claire, Sting, 15, 16. There may have been others but I remember those. The sales guys currently working the floor aren't old enough to.

I think it's cyclical. These will bloom and fade. I think it's cool they're doing it but I don't want one.

[Nova Constellatio]

Wait until they bring back the Taropatch!

[cozmik_cowboy]

A bit before Tut Taylor passed, I came across a link where he was offering 11 sets of Brazilian for $1K per; had I an excess of fundage, I would have grabbed them all & had Martin make me an enhanced 45* I dreamed up late one night in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 00, 000, M, M12, & D; could have doubled the number of 5-45s!

*Start with a snowflake 45, with Adirondack top, grained ivroid binding & engraved gold Waverleys.  Add pearl back strip & neck border, and 6-point snowflakes on the (rosewood, ala 36) bridge wings.  At the 5th fret, swap the outer 2 inlays for cannabis leaf clusters.  Headstock, inlaid script logo; between the tuners the Shimer College "Graduation Elm" logo.  Heel cap scrimshawed with either a monogram my grandmother designed for me or the Greek letters ΛΣΔ.

Peter

[Nova Constellatio]

I didn't know Tut died — I ran into him at Gruhn's the last time I was there. He sold me my blackguard years ago.

[cozmik_cowboy]

April 9, 2015.  He was 91.

Peter

[Nova Constellatio]

April 9, 2015.  He was 91.

Peter

I was confusing him with another Tut, whose last name I could have sworn was something like Taylor. Now I need to figure out who I was thinking of.

[edwardofhuncote]

Tut Taylor... what a character. I wouldn't be surprised, because a blackguard Tele would be exactly something he'd have, and Gruhn's was a hangout. Could it be you met his son, Mark?

So until the the virus killed him, my musical partner Curtis Baker was a resophonic player, extraordinaire. We'd made a few recordings together and performed as a duo. It gave me a chance to spread out and play guitar, emulating my hero Norman Blake some, and do something a little different from the usual gig. Curt was a student of Mike Auldridge (really, a student) and also a big fan of Tut. We got to meet him one time at a reso-summit in Todd, NC and presented him with a copy of our most recent project which was more-or-less a nod to him and Norman. A couple weeks later, we received a nice note and a copy of his and Norman's "Shacktown Road".

All this is the long way around my post for today. After he died, Curtis' widow gave me his Tut Taylor 'Tennessean' resonator guitar. It had been his main axe when we started playing, but after he started studying under Mike, he bought himself a Beard, Mike Auldridge signature model and played it til he died. The Tut guitar became his backup and his autograph book of sorts. I'd scrub them off but that seems wrong too. Half those people are gone now.

[cozmik_cowboy]

And I will add that I greatly enjoy the Honeycutt & Baker CD that Greg was kind enough to send me.

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

And I will add that I greatly enjoy the Honeycutt & Baker CD that Greg was kind enough to send me.

Peter

When pitching merch, Curt used to say; if you don't like the music, they make good drink coasters... if you don't drink, stick it in the microwave for a free fireworks show. 

I've still got a few hundred of those things.