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SME 3009 wood arm ??

hello to all, i have a SME 3009 (original , I )tone arm, with non screw in type head, non-detachable type head(but i can remove it easily by unplugging),, special thing is, with wood arm,(instead of metal) it is proto type?>?, i guess, i never seen one before, i get it from my father with his LP 12 , he said extremely rare and one of the kind,special made from sme,?? since, i have no use, how shall i value it,, or anyone knows anything about it, uhmm any ideas could help me to decide what shall i do with it,,thanks in advance mike
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Some SME models had wood INSIDE the arm for damping. I know of no SME that had wood outside as primary construction material.

As Stanwal says, you can email SME. I think you're wrong and it's not an SME. Hope I'm wrong and you have something really rare :^).
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Tidybear, do you know what stick on wood (vinyl) looks like? Wonder if someone wanted the chrome SME to have more WAF and did a custom job?
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You can start a system thread and name it something like "Rare SME" or similar and then you can post photo's in that. A link in this thread will drive us over to that so we can view.

WAF is Wife Acceptance Factor. Many of us are married and often have to make changes in our system based on what the pretty one likes. Fortunately I lucked out, mine pays no attention at all to my system or what I do to it.
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Tidybear, here's a link to Audiogon virtual systems where you can launch a new system and post images.

http://cgim.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/vs_post.pl
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