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Stephen Cowell

I call that tuning Leon E13... Mr McAuliffe's tuning on a lot of the stuff he did. The Boggs E13 has the 5 in the lower course and no 5 in the upper... I prefer the Leon for the way the dyads lie, and for the 'home' feeling on the upper course (more 6-like). Most folks use it as a strum tuning only....

Stephen Cowell

Is this a sale or an auction? Looks like the switch has a problem. Also, looks like they're trying to get around the normal Forum process, including a donation after the sale. This is the wrong place to post this. Please post it in Steel Guitars For Sale. Also, more pictures are necessary. Please i...

Stephen Cowell

My Remington d8 was really dead sounding at first. I had to tighten nearly every screw nut and bolt on it and then it sang light it was supposed to! I still remember how bummed I was when I first set it up. I'm wondering if the "dud" you had might have had something similar going on. They...

Stephen Cowell

Most lap steelers put the pedal way out front so that the knee angle doesn't change when the pedal changes. This means that you probably don't want a low-profile pedal like a Goodrich etc... but YMMV.

I prefer a stand myself.

Stephen Cowell

Has the kidney-bean tuners, pre-hex... so probably late '60s... with the poly finish. I have its brother in blonde. There might be writing on the pickup for the date, but that really doesn't affect the value much. Nice looking specimen.

Stephen Cowell

If you can plug it into your tube tester with the same socket/settings and get readings for both A and B sides then it is probably safe to plug it into your amp... there appear to be no shorts.

Stephen Cowell

Jon Light wrote:My Mark I has SN# on the control plate & a build date both under the control plate and under the tuning pan.

Nice! I have a '58 Gloria guitar T8 short-scale... same piece of masking tape.

Stephen Cowell

6th's sound bad when used in some settings... like bluegrass, or rock. If you like low-bass D then you can always just extend it. You can put a 3rd in the bass course... then put a 3rd above the first string... or you could put a 3rd and 5th above the first string. That A would be getting pretty tig...

Stephen Cowell

Here's a video I recorded from the back of a 500-seat auditorium... the audio is direct from the board into those XLR's. https://youtu.be/X22fAXpaSfw?si=XvZXB1I529vcC9q4&t=89 Thanks, Stephen. We'd need it to be sharper than that, say, sharp enough to read the logo on the headstock of the guitar...

Stephen Cowell

I presume you're paralleling the speaker connections... on the 4 ohm setting you'll be getting pretty close, about 3 ohms. Just plug them both in and set it to 4.

Stephen Cowell

Mike, do you think they'd work well recording from the back of say a 500 seat theater to the stage? I've only seen them in close-up applications. Thanks Jim You'll need something with a nice optical zoom... Gopro is not that. I've been very happy with Canon cameras... here's their single prosumer p...

Stephen Cowell

Rich, the SM uses a funky ground system that depends on wires stapled to the wood. The chrome panel then is screwed down onto the staple, making the connection. I've tried bypassing this and soldering ground wires but it hums more... pretty crazy how that works. What I've done is to lift the staple ...

Stephen Cowell

Ian Rae wrote:DC resistance isn't the same as reactive impedance, so you can't directly measure a pickup with an ohmmeter. That will only measure the resistance of the wire, not the inductance of the coil.

Yet it is how we measure them when comparing them.

Stephen Cowell

Roger, do you have an ohms meter? DVM's are pretty cheap these days.

Stephen Cowell

I like the Peterson iPhone app... works very nicely, through the mic. I lower my maj3rds 12c or so for sweetness. There are lots and lots of rack/floor tuner options... you could try clipping your clip-on to the bridge bar.

Stephen Cowell

Sometime during that era, some Stringmasters didn't come with bridge covers. The bridges were different. The ends of the bridges, with covers, were pointed. It looks like, on this guitar, that the ends are pretty much rounded and you couldn't fasten the covers on this type of bridge. Erv, looking a...

Stephen Cowell

Shame about the case... at least it's still there. Looks like late '50s... worth 1200-1400 with the painted case. The bridge covers and legs are there, at least... the body's not in that bad of a shape, what we can see of it.

Stephen Cowell

When you put benders on guitars you are looking at the quality of the remaining pieces... if your bender depends on the old bridge, the cheap bridge will not work well... needs to be at least rounded (like a Stringmaster etc)... I had a Morrell that was just a piece of aluminum angle with sharp edge...

Stephen Cowell

All of the pedal resos I've played suffered from drop... can't call it 'cabinet drop' so I'll call it 'cone drop'. The tuning switcher tailpieces get around this by allowing a compensation *on each string* when you switch tunings. Doing this for more than one pedal is going to be crazy hard... good ...

Stephen Cowell

Stephen is the TFL5000D showman head the more desirable one then? I believe that was only the 68 and maybe 69 I'm not sure. Also Bill TFL5000D is broken down as follows: TFL = Teflon wire coating instead of cloth 5000 = Fender Dual Showman Reverb D = Domestic Found pictures of the shorter one... it...

Stephen Cowell

A true '68 TR is going to have cloth wiring (desirable) and drip-edge grille. It's going to also be closer to the blackface circuit with some cathode circuit modifications that are easy to undo. That said it would appeal more to an armpit guitarist in that it's not as high-power clean as the later T...

Stephen Cowell

Yes... Vintage Vibe has them. You'll probably need to go to Home Depot and get some crutch tips for them. The earlier SM's had a different leg angle I think... but this is the only game in town, the threads are all the same. I've had good luck cleaning the insides... take them apart and make sure yo...

Stephen Cowell

Now you gonna make me post my similar project... haven't even had the courage to power it up yet. The amp works, the cabinet works... I'll play them together tomorrow. The cab was designed to go under the PA head, obviously... thanks to Will Dyke at Armadillo Amp Works for the construction. Note the...

Stephen Cowell

I'd find it hard to believe that you could damage that guitar... I have an Excel JB frypan that I could fight my way out of a bar with. Nice case.

Stephen Cowell

There's no way to date it exactly, but both the pots are from '56 so that gives an earliest bracket. The pickup is essentially a Strat pickup with the poles shoved down under the cover. It was also used on the Mustang, Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic guitars. They sound different... it is a Musicmaster p...

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