Anyone ever do business with FatDog of Subway Guitars?
Seems like a real character and appears to offer up quite a cache of interesting, low budget vintage guitars, many of which have apparently had neck resets, replaced tuners, etc. I actually saw a...
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Tim,This may do you little if any good, but....My wife and I were in Berkeley briefly during a West Coast vacation last fall. Before we left the Bay area, I insisted on a short stop to check out...
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Tim,I had an experience with FD about 3 years ago. I was seriously gassing for a 20's or 30s Oscar Schmidt, Regal, etc, and he seemed to have what I was looking for. He posted pictures of 30 or so...
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I bought a guitar from him 2 or 3 years ago. I was visiting friends close by, so we went by to see what he was. We talked a bit -- he did not seem to have anything out that really interested us. We...
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Yes. For a couple of years, I worked nearby and my buddy, Marc Silber is in the same neighborhood.Anyone looking for pristine original pieces should liik somewhere else. Many of his guitars have...
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If it's the guy I'm thinking of, his website did have a picture of a bunch of old Harmony Soverign Dreadnoughts (actually jumbos) outside his shack. I've often wondered if one of them was the one I...
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See for yourself....Subway GuitarsHint: Look under "Acoustic"
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My guitar was parlor number 6 under "parlor guitars." I was initially intrigued by the mother of toilet seat parlor, but it was gone when I called, and those 3 square necked Oahus looked sweet. The...
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Anybody with a name like "Fatdog" is okay by me. Sounds like he should be riding a Harley Fatboy. Cool name.Rudy
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That's the very guy! One of those old Harmonys lined up outside in the rain mighta been mine.DavidShe is a J-40. She is perfect. Her name is Harp.
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I've done a bit of business with FatDog over the years, and everything has always gone well. I used to live in Berkeley in the 70s and early 80s.Like others have said, his market niche does not focus...
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Thanks folks, most of what I've heard confirms my gut instincts about the place - mostly what you see is what you get, lower end kind of stuff sold with a minimum of pretense. The reason I asked in...
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A most excellent link. Thankyou!
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