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Post by Dub on Jun 7, 2023 15:28:54 GMT -5
Here’s a video of Eddie Pennington from twenty years ago. Does anyone know what make and model of guitar he’s playing?
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Post by Marty on Jun 7, 2023 17:52:34 GMT -5
It is a Richard Leach guitar.
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Post by Dub on Jun 7, 2023 21:53:43 GMT -5
It is a Richard Leach guitar. Thank you, Marty. I see he’s in St. Cloud. Do you know him? What do you think of his work? |
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Post by Russell Letson on Jun 7, 2023 23:37:58 GMT -5
I doubt that's by the St. Cloud Richard Leach--Rick built guitars (including one for Bobby Vee), but I don't recall him ever doing a dread. That could well be a Harvey Leach instrument, though.
(Rick committed suicide a few years back, surprising me and everybody else. I spent a lot of hours in his workshops over more than thirty years, just hanging out with him and learning about instrument fixing. At his memorial service, a friend had made a poster-size sympathy card--more than a foot across--and had everybody who had ever had Rick work on his guitar sign it and list the instruments. It wound up covered with names.)
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Post by Dub on Jun 7, 2023 23:43:38 GMT -5
Sorry to learn about your friend, Russell. It sounds like he was well liked by many people.
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Post by Marty on Jun 8, 2023 9:04:21 GMT -5
I doubt that's by the St. Cloud Richard Leach--Rick built guitars (including one for Bobby Vee), but I don't recall him ever doing a dread. That could well be a Harvey Leach instrument, though. (Rick committed suicide a few years back, surprising me and everybody else. I spent a lot of hours in his workshops over more than thirty years, just hanging out with him and learning about instrument fixing. At his memorial service, a friend had made a poster-size sympathy card--more than a foot across--and had everybody who had ever had Rick work on his guitar sign it and list the instruments. It wound up covered with names.) I wondered about that too Russel. What decided me was the headstock logo work. Harvey always did a small script while I saw several examples of that fancy vertical logo on Rick's guitars. Both makers headstock designs are similar so that was no help unless I could get a good closeup shot. The guitar in the video does have a lot of pearl work around the body, D45 style, but in pearl not abalone. Also the fingerboard markers are all different but simple. Harvey's work is much more like Grit Laskin's. Rick still has a FaceBook page and in his photos you'll see his Dreadnought body mold. I met Rick once many years ago but I don't think I've ever seen one of his guitars up close. |
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