What is this?

Steve England · Post by **Steve England** » 12 May 2000 11:43 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=329554914

Sorry, I can't do the hyperlink thing here but that is the link above. Anyone ever seen a guitar like this? It looks like it is too thin to be of any use. Sure is green though.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 12 May 2000 2:24 pm

Well, it does look like Duane Marrs' logo on the front, so I'll assume he made it custom for somebody who wanted a modern-sounding 6-string lap steel, or perhaps a practice steel. I hade something like that made with 10 strings for me a few years ago, from a different manufacturer.

Mike D · Post by **Mike D** » 12 May 2000 2:51 pm

What does it being thin have to do with anything?

I like the description, "sounds good when being played" How does it sound when it's not being played?

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 13 May 2000 10:06 am

Looks just like the back half of this guitar.

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Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 13 May 2000 3:50 pm

That's one of those Marrs Dobro simulators which some of the guys namely Jimmy Crawford played at Scotty's a few years ago. They have a pretty good dobro sound. You can set them on your lap or right on top of one of the necks of your steel. The Dobro sound comes mostly from that hollow bridge.

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Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 15 May 2000 7:28 am

These have been refered to as the Marrs "Cat Can"- I had one for a long while, a neat little guitar- the story goes that Duane Marrs had been trying all kinds of materials and designs for manufacturing small resonators to simulate the dobro sound in a small single neck steel. He'd just about given up and was feeding his cat and kicked the empty can across the floor and into the wall- Voila! That's what's inside that guitar underneath the aluminum bar bridge- an upside down cat food can! And it does sound like a little tiny Dobro- these have been turning up on ebay recently. There are 6 and 8 string versions. But don't go bidding on this one now- I'd like one for back of the bus practicing-

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Steve England · Post by **Steve England** » 15 May 2000 10:27 am

"What does it being thin have to do with anything?"
Well Exxxccuuse Me for asking

What I meant was it looks like a pedal steel neck without a body, I always thought the body had some relationship to the sound.
Thanks to all you guys who posted civil replies. [This message was edited by Steve England on 15 May 2000 at 11:27 AM.]

Jerry Gleason · Post by **Jerry Gleason** » 15 May 2000 11:59 am

The thickness of most pedal steel bodies, at least the plank that the neck is mounted on, is usually only 1/2 to 3/4" thick. I don't know how much that really has to do with tone, especially with the aprons, end plates, and undercarriage attached.

It does seem that the front neck of my Stringmaster (the thicker one) sounds a little better than the back one.

Mike D · Post by **Mike D** » 15 May 2000 3:21 pm

Well Jeez, I didn't mean it to be snotty sounding. I just wondered why a guitar made of aluminum would "not be of any use" if it had a thin platform under it.

P.S. was that civil enough?