LAST SXL 8 string lap steel blanks

:ast CC-8 style 8 string; Chrome Grovers, single Stringmaster Lollar pickup and a vinyl fingerboard. $685 or trade options for red Epiphone 335 or...

you can reach me at melobarted@gmail.com for any questions





wrapping up the last Melobars

winter of 2013

working on a mini-Teleratt...way cool

 ...last Melobro

 

Black Skreemr is cool but it will have to go through the paint booth one more time

 

 

 

 

Hawaiian Holiday Melobar

This is what happens when you're sitting around talking about what would be cool and someone says, "hey - what about using one of the old album LP's as a pickguard..."

WAYYY!! harder than I thought it would be but kind of fun too. The album is Hawaiian Holiday with Hawaiian Starlight and Aloha showing on the label Spin-O-Rama.

The Paul Barth pickup has a very warm tone but I'll only sell it as a wall hanger because I can't warranty that pickguard won't crack under abuse but it does sound like the Islands $395

Love the color, has a lot of green and blues in it not coming out in the photo, I call it ocean blue and am doing a SXL double pickup in it right now.

Melobar Help

If you look to the right you'll see a new page on Melobar Tech Help. This is to answer a lot of questions I get about how to set up an old Melobar Nut and Bridges. It also has notes on Melobro check-ups in that a video was posted of a Melobro lacking a lot of bark which is the one thing they normally do not lack so a check-up page to use on your Melobro to make sure it's cone has not moved or something else is not set up right.

Melobar Rosac 8

This is a guitar that's been on the shelf half built and I decided to finish it.

It's one of the 1972 Rosac (former employees of Mosrite that went out on their own for a while) built Melobars - originally a 10 string with tight spacing I converted it to an 8-string, staggered two sets of Paul Barth pickups to widen the spacing. The front two pickups are wired together then the back two, with a Gibson 3-way switch. Fingerboard was replaced with one of the Sweet Address boards. It's in nice shape for a 40 year old guitar -now in grateful hands in CA

Winter...hmmm

Well I don't know about you but we got hammered by cold that has me frozen indoors looking at a few of the old Melobar parts I have still on the shelves.
I think I'll break down and build the two CC-8 CNC bodies I've been saving in mahogany and ash - probably with Lollar pickups.  If I can find a decent painter...I'm getting too old to do that part. I hope to get a Black Melobar Skreemr done, last couple of CC-8s, a Teleratt SXL and maybe...maybe, a Telobar double neck using the custom Tele with the dual p90s, I'm just not sure if I want to make the Melobar neck a 6 or 8 string on the bottom...we'll see

Ladies hot on lap steel

  Megan Lovell of the band Larkin Poe

                                                              And of course Cindy Cashdollar ...