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by Louis Bouchier
6 Jul 2012 6:48 pm
Forum: For Sale: Steel Guitars
Topic: Fender Dual 8 Professional, 1953
Replies: 11
Views: 12782

what a beaut
by Louis Bouchier
19 Jun 2012 3:58 pm
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: Double and Triple Neck 8 string lap steels
Replies: 11
Views: 7069

"Billy Tonnesen"]Are you talking "Lap Steels" or are you including "Consule Steels" which must have some kind of a Stand or Built in legs ? A three neck "Lap Steel" is almost impossible to correctly play sitting on your Lap, especially the neck cldosest to yo...
by Louis Bouchier
19 Jun 2012 12:19 pm
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: Double and Triple Neck 8 string lap steels
Replies: 11
Views: 7069

Double and Triple Neck 8 string lap steels

Hey all.

I was wondering who here owns Double or Triple necks? Fender/Gibson seems to of made a bunch of these back in the day. I regularly check eBay and it seems that these come up quite a bit.

To who ever owns them. How do you find them? do they play well? I would love to get my hands on one.
by Louis Bouchier
19 Jun 2012 4:54 am
Forum: For Sale: Steel Guitars
Topic: Fender 8 string (1/2 of a D-8) with hipshot trilogy bridge
Replies: 5
Views: 10234

is this still for sale?
by Louis Bouchier
19 Jun 2012 4:41 am
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: Finger pulls lap steel C6
Replies: 6
Views: 3064

C6 is not necessarily the best tuning for string pulls, although there are useful pulls there: A string up 1/2 for a dom7 chord, pull the high E up 1/2 step for a sus chord or a IV chord, pull the C up a 1/2 step for an A7 chord, etc. They are little tricks, but not really essential, like in an E t...
by Louis Bouchier
18 Jun 2012 12:58 pm
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: Finger pulls lap steel C6
Replies: 6
Views: 3064

Thanks!

I will check out all the links you posted.

With close to a 2 million total messages it's easy to understand how one can get lost amongst all the knowledge.
by Louis Bouchier
18 Jun 2012 10:19 am
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: Finger pulls lap steel C6
Replies: 6
Views: 3064

Finger pulls lap steel C6

Hello. I was browsing the forum the last couple of days and I was wondering if anyone here could lead me to a link or links that might explain finger pulls. I've got myself some slants working for the last year or so. Recently I got a hold of some Mike Neer instructional materials, Great stuff for l...