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Well I finally got my Mel Bay C6 Lap steel guitar DVD and watched it and I was doing it all wrong! lol I was picking up the slide, now that I know you are suppose to block with your right hand it's kinda tricky just have to get use to it! I was going to comment it's kind of difficult as there is a k...

I appreciate all the feedback, I am planning on sticking to C6 to learn and I have a couple instructional DVD's coming, along with a Korg pedal tuner!

Steve, for the price I thought it was pretty decent as well for the price, I will tune it as you said, I am not even going to try anything on it until I get a tuner and get it tuned properly! Also when I have to re-string it what wire/brand would be the best to use? Thanks again, Dave

Thanks for the input guy's! I think I will go with a pedal tuner!

Chromatic tuner, I will pick one up! Thanks!
I have found a few different variants on Ebay I found a Korg pedal, one that looks like a handheld, one that clamps on the head, I suppose they all will work fine but would the pedal tuner be more accurate?

Well I have picked on it for a couple hours and I did my best tuning it but I tuned it to G, I have a guitar pitch pipe how do I tune it to C6 sorry if this is a dumb question but as I said before I am green as all get out!!! :lol: I actually think the fingerpicks help in my case because I have some...

Well my Rogue Jersey Lightning came in today!! and I received my slide as well so it looks like I get to do some pickin' tonight!

Yeah I have no experience on guitar, I am totally green! good to see another Hoosier!

Thanks for the tip Ron!

I just got my Dunlop finger picks in today they are all plastic Large size and man the thumbpick fits alright but the fingerpicks are WAY too small! Is there a trick to these maybe heating them up a bit to spread them out so they will fit?

I just joined the forum today and hopefully I can learn a lot here! I am 31 and I have always loved the steel guitar from the old 60's & 70's Country (It always sounded better than the lead guitar IMO!) Anyway I really wanted to learn pedal steel guitar but after researching it I found it might ...