| Identifying silvertone lap steel |
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Silvertone Archtop Acoustic Guitars. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Introduced the Silvertone brand in 1915 expanding the product line to guitars in the 1930s—the first solid body guitar appearing in 1954. The 1457 amp-in-a-case model built by Danelectro for Silvertone paved the way for amplifiers like the 1482 and 1483. By that serial number, your Silverstone Blues Master guitar was made in Indonesia at the Cort factory there. Samick and Cort share many production facilities, pushing out guitars with the Silverstone, Cort, Squier, and many other brand names on the headstock. Made in the year 2000, and the rest of the serial numbers are run/lot numbers.
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Matthew Hargis
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Oklahoma, USA | Posted 23 Aug 2017 9:47 am | I was given this silvertone lap steel by a friend yesterday. He said its from the 1950s. I haven't found any pictures of a 1950s silvertone with this exact bridge/pickup combo. The tuners are in much better condition than the rest of the guitar, so probably aftermarket. Anyone mind shedding some light on this steel?
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA | Posted 23 Aug 2017 10:37 am | It looks like a Silvertone Model 1311 from around 1958-9. Manufactured by Valco of Chicago, you should be able to determine the exact year of manufacture if there's a small metal plate with a serial number on the back of the neck near the nut.
The tuners are almost certainly replacements - these usually used Kluson tuners with a plastic tuner button.
I hope you enjoy the steel!
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Matthew Hargis
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Oklahoma, USA | Posted 23 Aug 2017 3:41 pm | | Thank you sir! |
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007 | Posted 27 Aug 2017 8:34 pm | That looks just like my old beloved Silvertone.
It originally had Kluson deluxe Tuners with gold sparkle translucent buttons. They were starting to crack so I replaced them with inexpensive enclosed tuners. It had a Valco pickup with fantastic tone and output!
The volume and tone original bakelite knobs also were crumbling, so I replaced them too (See Photo)
I sold it only because I wanted more than six strings.
Did yours come with the original case?
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