The Steel Guitar Forum

I made a fishman style pickup for my 8 string. I purchased two piezo off eBay for maybe $10 each. They were short strips intended for a mandolin. I cut the bridge inserts near the top, got a strong 5000 psi epoxy and sandwiched the piezos between the cut inserts. Put them back in and wired the two s...

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Shane The front of the guitar is where you grandfathers name is. You have the pedal rack on in the wrong direction. The pedals should face inwards and under the guitar. I can send pictures if you need them. That's a beautiful guitar and a piece of history. Should be worth a few dollars particularly ...

Jan I removed these pickups years ago. I believe they were screwed down. There are two screws on the bottom of the jagged "claw" . to get to them the black cover comes off. I believe it just lifts off. Then the bobbin comes off. It may be glued but comes up easy...at least i was able to do...

Mark, Yes the redeye preamp

Jim I have and ultimately went to ToneDexter. I was using the fishman with a redeye boost for the dobro and the redeye with a boss eq for the mandolin and then a tuner. The Tonedexter was very appealing since it did all that in one unit and could be extended to guitar. I recorded with a KSM 32 and I...

I've used this tuning for number of years, although mine is G6/D9. Basically because I arrived at it on a fender 1000 long scale that I couldn't get the G# up to A without breaking. After I went back to modern 10 string I kept the G6/D9 tuning. I also did this so I could play the older styles and it...

Is this guitar still available?
Thanks
Dave