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LVC
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 Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:24 am Post subject: Dial on Red Baker |
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Hi,
Please look at this photo
http://www.dhenderson.com/Robben%20AL/pages/Robben%206_jpg.htm
I have exact Baker -- same color everything #778 --- however i have a dip switch to split pick-up.
I was wondering what the dial on RF's Baker is for (I have a dip switch in same location) and is there a wiring schematic available?
thanks
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marinblues
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean the Varitone?
If yes, check out the Gibson site for models es335 and bbking lucille.
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LVC
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:44 am Post subject: Dial on Baker (Varitone?) |
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Hi,
It looks like a vari-tone switch --- just wanted to confirm.
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Daved
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Yes, Robben had the varitone removed from his 335 waaaayyyyy back when and hung onto it. We experimented for a while with Gene putting it in that guitar.
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Aeolian
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Daved wrote: | | Yes, Robben had the varitone removed from his 335 waaaayyyyy back when and hung onto it. We experimented for a while with Gene putting it in that guitar. |
Hmm, don't 335's just have a pickup switch? I used to have one called a 335TD that had a tap switch on the lower bout. But I thought that Varitone's only came on the 345 and 355 "upscale" models. The 335 Robben's holding on the cover of "The Inside Story" shows a conventional sunburst 335. I've heard some stories of this guitar passing from Robben's hands into various others, but don't know how true they are.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:16 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, meant his 355.
Very easy to get 'dyslexic' with all those combinations of 3's, 4's, & 5's.
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frank0936
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:02 am Post subject: Varitone |
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I knew thay didn't come on 335's but I thought maybe Robben had modified one. I have that on my Blueshawk and I really like it.
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