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Location: Scotland | Bill there's some info on the Timmins guitars here: www.well.com/user/wellvis/acoustic.html and
here: www.michaelmesser.co.uk/tgm9.htm. The brand name is F1. They look prety cool, a mix of 30's art deco, Hawaiian kitsch & high tech. I haven't heard one personally but I have a couple of friends who are renowned reso players in the UK & they speak very highly of them. I think he may have a hard time with these. The market is flooded with cheap Chinese and eastern European steel resonator guitars. They don't have the finesse of the real thing but once you change the hub-caps they use as resonators for a Quarterman or similar they sound great.
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I saw that episode too I am almost positive that Glenn was playing a mosrite electric dobro.
since he was backing Ovation at the time that is probably why there were no real good shots of it but that is what it looked like to me.
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Location: Scotland | I've seen Campbell with a Mosrite Californian, which was a 335-style bolt-on, not unlike an Ovation Storm, but with a dobro spider resonator & DeArmond pickups. Semie Mosley owned the rights to the Dobro name in the late sixties.
I aquiried one of these a few years ago in a trade & got rid as fast as possible. Dreadful guitar, which is usually the case when a company builds a guitar to get rid of inventory. Around the same time Mosrite produced some conventional square & round neck Dobros branded as Mobros. I had a squareneck & it was the loudest dobro I've ever heard. Another one I regret selling.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It probably was the Mosrite, he was playing them before Ovation.
Ogle, Paul, Thanks for the info.
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